Vice President of Product, Encompass Corporation
Salary not provided
+ Participation in our industry leading share options scheme
Senior and Expert level
London
Know Your Customer regulation platform
Job no longer available
Know Your Customer regulation platform
101-200 employees
B2BComplianceBusiness IntelligenceSaaSAutomation
Job no longer available
Salary not provided
+ Participation in our industry leading share options scheme
Senior and Expert level
London
101-200 employees
B2BComplianceBusiness IntelligenceSaaSAutomation
Company mission
To enable banks to create and maintain the identity of their corporate customers to create business opportunities, prevent financial crime and reduce regulatory risk.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate can translate our company vision into longer-term roadmaps, has excellent project management skills, is a problem solver, an excellent communicator, a leader, and is driven to optimize
- You should have experience leading agile development efforts in a high-growth company, ideally in emerging category
- If you are passionate about having a massive impact in a high-growth scale up, this role offers challenges and rewards in equal measure
- The VP Product will possess a blend of visionary leadership, deep technical expertise, and an acute understanding of both the financial industry and customer needs
- Strategic Thinker: Able to define and articulate a clear product vision that aligns with the company’s overall strategy. They anticipate market trends, regulatory changes, and technological advancements, and they use this foresight to guide product development
- Inspiring Leader: Motivates and inspires product teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Financial Acumen: Possesses a thorough understanding of financial products, services, and regulations, specifically within the KYC, AML, Fincrime space. This includes knowledge of banking, payments, investments, lending, insurance, and other key areas within fintech
- Tech-Savvy: Well-versed in modern technologies, especially those critical to fintech. You can make informed decisions about technology stacks and product architecture
- Data-Driven: Utilizes data and analytics to inform product decisions. You will have the ability to interpret data, understand customer behaviour, and use insights to optimize products and drive
- Empathy for Users: Deeply understands the needs, pain points, and behaviours of the target audience. The VP Product should prioritize user experience (UX) and design products that offer intuitive, seamless, and valuable experiences
- Customer Advocacy: Acts as the voice of the customer within the company, ensuring that customer feedback is incorporated into the product development process and that the final product meets or exceeds customer expectations
- Innovative: Constantly seeks to innovate, exploring new product ideas, experimenting with emerging technologies, and adapting to the rapidly changing fintech landscape
- Agile: Skilled in agile methodologies, the VP Product should be able to pivot quickly in response to new data, market shifts, or competitive pressures. Can foster an environment where teams can iterate rapidly and deliver products in a lean and efficient manner
- Commercially Savvy: Balances creativity with commercial pragmatism. The VP Product should ensure that products are not only innovative but also viable, scalable, and profitable. They should understand revenue models, pricing strategies, and cost management
- Stakeholder Management: Manages relationships with key stakeholders, including investors, partners, and clients. You should be able to communicate product strategy and performance effectively to both technical and non-technical
- Proven Experience: Demonstrates a history of successful product launches within the Regtech ,Fincrime, KYC, Identity Verification or AML space. You should have a track record of driving significant product improvements and business outcomes
What the job involves
- Reporting To CEO
- Encompass is seeking an experienced VP of Product to lead our product organization and play a crucial role in setting product strategy, prioritizing features, and coordinating resources to ensure we deliver products that align with our vision, mission, and business goals
- Define and articulate the product vision in alignment with the company’s business objectives, continuing our mission to replace inefficient and error-prone manual KYC processes with Corporate Digital Identity (CDI)
- Develop a comprehensive product roadmap that balances innovation, market demands, and business growth
- Conduct market research to understand industry trends, competitive landscape, and customer needs
- Ensure the company's products maintain a competitive edge in the fintech space
- Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing product management team
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability
- Collaborate with executives, engineering, sales, marketing, and operations to ensure alignment on product goals and priorities
- Act as the primary advocate for the product, bridging gaps between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders
- Drive the product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery
- Establish and refine product management processes, ensuring agility and adaptability in a scaling environment
- Define and track key product KPIs (e.g., adoption rates, retention, NPS, revenue impact)
- Continuously measure product performance and leverage data-driven insights to optimize and iterate
- Serve as the voice of the customer, ensuring that user feedback and pain points inform product decisions
- Champion user experience (UX) and accessibility to enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty
- Ensure all products meet regulatory and compliance requirements specific to the fintech industry
- Work closely with legal and compliance teams to mitigate risks
Application process
- Applied
- Talent Team Review
- Head of People Introduction
- CEO Initials Introduction
- Peer Panel Interview
- Final Interview
- Written Offer
- Hired
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Know Your Customer (KYC) process is vital to any modern business, but ensuring KYC compliance can be challenging, especially at scale. Encompass solves this problem with its automated KYC regulation platform.
Encompass's platform helps companies to prevent fraud and financial crime, while also saving them time and money. It primarily targets banks and financial institutions that have to comply with a multitude of regulations. Since launching in 2012, Encompass has opened offices in seven global locations, testament to its value and growth potential.
The need for KYC automation is rising rapidly, and Encompass, which raised an impressive $33M in funding in 2022, is poised to take advantage of this demand.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2022
$33m
LATE VC
Feb 2020
$2.7m
GRANT
Total funding: $41.3m
Company benefits
- Share Options plan: The Encompass employee Share Options plan is one of the benefits we are proudest to be able to offer. Every employee is an investor, and will benefit from our growth and success
- Carers and personal leave: We care about employees, not just about their lives at work, but as people. We offer 10 days per year that can be taken for you personally, or as a carer for a family member with physical or mental ill health. Our compassionate leave also covers pregnancy loss at any stage
- Coaching and mental health support: We’ve partnered with Sanctus to launch a mental health and wellbeing coaching service for the whole company
- Parental leave: Families come in all shapes and sizes. Our Adoption and Surrogacy pay and leave is the same as our maternity and paternity – six months full pay maternity leave plus full pension contributions for up to 12 months; four weeks full pay paternity leave
- Perfromance and Development: Our Philosophy: Performance at Encompass will be about results and impact. For employees to understand their performance we need to be completely transparent and clear about our expectations. This means that we need to define what "great" looks like to maintain and improve employees' performance in line with the employees and organisation's objectives. It's not a single activity, but rather a group of practices that should be approached holistically
- Volunteering leave: We offer two days paid leave for volunteering – one for you to use as an individual, and one Company Volunteering Day that helps us give back to the communities we are located in
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Wayne Johnson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously CEO & Founder of Software Associates, and VP Australia at eHealthcare Asia. Then worked as an Independent Advisor for over 7 years.
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