Senior Product Manager

About us

ClearBank was built on the belief that banking infrastructure would no longer slow down progress. Instead, it’s the catalyst that unlocks the potential to innovate. That’s why our clients — financial institutions from fintech’s and crypto platforms, to banks and credit unions — use our API to power their banking infrastructure.

But we wouldn’t be ClearBank without our people. They’re what powers our innovative technology and the reason we love what we do every day. We’re a group of spirited people who are never afraid to challenge the norm – becoming stronger, more energised, and that much better when we’re together. It’s our belief in fairness, autonomy and choice that means our people are empowered with the tools to learn, grow, and contribute to ours and our clients’ success. Interested in joining us? Read on or visit our website for more information.

Requirements

As the Senior Product Manager you lead our Accounts Foundation & Core product cluster. Reporting to the Head of Product, you’ll be a part of a fast-growing business that is challenging the market and doing things differently.

The Accounts Foundation & Core cluster includes the following product areas:

• Pricing & Billing

• Reconciliations

• Treasury Accounting

• Regulatory Reporting

You will lead a team of 3 to 4 Product Managers, each of whom will be accountable for their own products success. You will also be accountable for the Treasury Accounting product which enables ClearBank to track its highly complex financial positions in near real time and report on them to ClearBank’s regulators.

You are passionate about building products and leading the way to promote a product led culture. You have worked in the fintech industry, ideally within a payments area of product and have an art to describing core problems, telling the story of what we should work on and why, as opposed to being feature driven.

Together with the Head of Product and your engineering partner, you will create a strong Product Vision & Strategy for your cluster and evangelise it with stakeholders throughout the bank.

And you’ll be joining the #14 fastest-growing tech company in the UK, according to Deloitte Fast 50.

As the Senior Product Manager you will be responsible for:

• Championing your product cluster with your engineering partner and SME stakeholders
• Creating and evangelising a powerful product vision and strategy for your product cluster
• Setting clear annual objectives and track progress through quarterly key results
• Leading product working groups and steercos to ensure that all your stakeholders are aligned with your planning and progress
• Devising product roadmaps and budgets in conjunction with your team, owning individual items, to achieve the overall product vision and goals
• Working closely with cross functional teams, understanding the problems to solve and the reasons on why
• Leading RFPs from a Product perspective, ensuring that we have the best tools and services for now and the future
• Leading multi-departmental requirements workshops, ensuring that each workshop clearly articulates the desired outcomes and facilitate the workshop in such a way to ensure that the outcomes are met
• Ensuring the Operating Models and existing processes are fully updated and aligned to the functionality of your product by coordinating relevant activities
• Liaising closely with ClearBank’s customers to run collaborative workshops with the aim of understanding Customer needs and demonstrating the ability to embed real-life use cases within the overall product design
• Working with ClearBank’s commercial teams to produce relevant literature outlining ClearBank’s payments functionality and support knowledge sharing to ensure that the commercial team are suitably knowledgeable around the product’s capabilities
• Staying up to date with the market news and trends, feeding them into your product design
• Managing competing demands from within ClearBank and effectively prioritise the work in a fast-moving environment
• Managing risk effectively as the product is designed, working with key stakeholders and governance to match the bank’s appetite to risk prior to launching products

What we are looking for

• People management experience in a Product environment
• End to End product management experience and ability to work independently
• Ability to identify requirement patterns and devise strategic solutions which enable more scale
• Good understanding of accounting and reconciliation best practices
• Good understanding of operational processes and needs
• Strong problem-solving capabilities and innovative idea generation
• Great time-management and ability to meet deadlines
• Good understanding of finance and building business cases
• Fantastic interpersonal skills and delving into the real customer problems
• A continuous improvement mindset and focus on delivering value
• Strong understanding of Agile Development methodologies, and previous experience of working within Agile Teams

Benefits

• At ClearBank we have a flexible working philosophy, empowering our employees to manage their time in a way which allows them to meet both work and personal commitments, in partnership with their line manager
• Spacious and well-equipped new offices in London and Bristol
• 27 days annual leave per year, plus flexible bank holidays
• The option to work outside of the UK for up to 30 days per year
• Regular company-wide socials
• Take a couple of days per year to volunteer with your chosen charity to do something bigger than ClearBank
• Private healthcare through Healix and discounted Bupa dental cover, with employee healthy living perks and discounts through YuLife
• Enhanced family-friendly leave
• Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to join an innovative team that’s building a bank fit for the future! 🚀

ClearBank is committed to ensuring equal opportunities throughout every stage of the recruitment process. ClearBank recognises that diversity is vital to the long-term success of the business in the communities and markets in which it operates. ClearBank is also a firm believer that an inclusive culture fosters greater employee engagement and collaboration.

ClearBank strives for diversity and inclusion of all forms, including (but not limited to): gender, age, educational and professional background, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief and sexual orientation.

As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable adjustments, to candidates during the recruitment process, including to individuals with disabilities. We want to create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate you. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share this with our Talent Acquisition team prior to your interview stage, if applicable.

The legal bit

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