Product Manager, StrideUp
3-5 days a week in office
Home financing for first-time buyers
Be an early applicant
Home financing for first-time buyers
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
3-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
StrideUp's mission is to help a generation of young, aspirational buyers take their first step onto the property ladder by building innovative products and by leveraging technology to simplify the customer experience.
Role
Who you are
- Empowered Owner: You take responsibility for the products you manage, balancing user needs, business goals, and delivery constraints to make informed, confident decisions
- Relentless Learner: You dive deep into business requirements and technical constraints to truly understand the problem. You ask the right questions, explore edge cases, and proactively seek out context to ensure your decisions are well-informed and your solutions are robust
- Curious Collaborator: You ask thoughtful questions, seek input from across the business, and create a shared understanding that enables better outcomes
- Customer-Focused Thinker: You champion the needs of both internal and external users, translating insight into practical improvements that drive real impact
- Clear and Considerate Communicator: You tailor your communication to the audience, distilling complexity into clear language and ensuring alignment at every stage of delivery
- Positive Force: You bring energy and resilience to your work, support your team through ambiguity, and help maintain a high-trust, low-ego culture
- Improvement-Minded: You seek feedback, reflect on what’s working (and what’s not), and use each delivery cycle as a chance to learn and get better
- Proven experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner in a small or mid-sized organisation in the finance / mortgage industry
- Comfortable operating in a hands-on, fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
- Strong collaboration skills, especially working with engineers, operations teams, and compliance stakeholders
- Ability to write clear specifications and manage a backlog in tools like Jira
- Analytical mindset; confident using data to inform decisions
- Understanding of mortgages and the lending industry
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Product Manager to support our in-house Engineering team
- This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing, mission-driven company at the forefront of Islamic financial service
- As a Product Manager at StrideUp, you’ll take ownership of core product initiatives that support our operations and customer journey
- You’ll work closely with a talented Engineering team and report directly to the Head of Product and Engineering
- Your focus will be to define, prioritise and deliver product enhancements that results in intuitive digital portals for customers and improves our internal operations to help us provide an outstanding overall customer experience
- Product Ownership: Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of key product features across our platform
- Roadmap Execution: Work with the Head of Product & Engineering to shape and maintain a clear, outcome-driven roadmap aligned with business goals
- Discovery & Definition: Lead discovery, gather requirements from stakeholders (including underwriting, operations, and compliance), and translate these into well-defined user stories and acceptance criteria
- Delivery Support: Collaborate closely with engineers to clarify scope, unblock delivery, and ensure timely releases with high quality
- User-Centric Thinking: Advocate for customer and internal user needs, ensuring the product is intuitive, efficient, and regulatory compliant
- Data & Iteration: Use data and user feedback to inform decisions, monitor impact, and iterate on solutions
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 2018, StrideUp is simplifying the property buying process for first-time buyers. Using technology and data, it aims to open a new route to homeownership and a better way to invest in property.
By allowing buyers to purchase the amount of the mortgage they can afford upfront, users are able to get on the property ladder earlier. Its platform allows customers to apply with minimum fuss, directly on the website, with advice at any time. This process also removes the traditional inefficiencies associated with shared ownership models. With just a 10% deposit, customers could own up to 80% of the property, leaving the remaining 20% for whenever they're ready to pay.
After purchasing a home with a minimum 10% deposit, users make monthly payments and can increase their ownership at any time - or of course replace StrideUp with another finance provider. StrideUp recognises that revolutionising how the mortgage market works for customers is not going to be an easy task, but they are committed to achieving this mission through its dedicated and focused team.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2017
$2.2m
SEED
Total funding: $2.2m
Company benefits
- Pension
- Training budget
- 22 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- An ability to accommodate flexible working practices
- Team lunches
- Regular events
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Sakeeb Zaman
(Co-founder & CEO)After studying at the University of Oxford, Sakeeb joined Deutsche Bank in 2008, before founding GammaTrace in 2014. He co-founded StrideUp in 2016, serving as CEO since then.
Rohan Trivedi
(Co-founder)Prior to co-founding StrideUp, Rohan spent 9 years at Deutsche Bank as Vice President and then Director or Capital Markets.
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