Product Manager, Lightyear
Investor Experience
+ Tax-advantaged EMI stock options
Office located in Old Street, London
Investment platform
Open for applications
Investment platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Tax-advantaged EMI stock options
Office located in Old Street, London
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make investing better for everyone in Europe
Role
Who you are
- Passion for investing: you are building this product for yourself and then for the rest of the Europe
- Proven product management experience shipping customer experiences in fintech or another regulated domain
- Regulatory intuition: translate compliance/tax/disclosure requirements into product logic, copy, and UI states
- Strong UX judgment: you sweat copy, states, edge cases—and keep both beginner and expert paths clean and fast
- Interest for AI and technology: comfortable with data, models, queries and systems
- Analytical mindset: define meaningful metrics and make evidence-based calls
- Customer & market sense: craft propositions that resonate with different European customer segments and needs
What the job involves
- As PM for Experience, you’ll do the figuring-out and the building: turn our system, regulatory setup, market reality, and customer mindset into crisp propositions - and ship them with quality and speed. This is a high ownership, high impact role, and your team will meaningfully improve the experience of European investors
- Own the experience end-to-end: make investing simple and provide exceptional value for beginners and powerful for experts across web and mobile
- Localise deeply: language, taxes, payments, onboarding, disclosures—a truly native feel in every country we serve
- Deliver outcomes: raise activation, engagement, and trust through clarity, performance, and craft
- Our mission: We’re in the wealth-creation business. Whoever you are, wherever you are in Europe, Lightyear should be the best place to grow your money for a better future
- Figure it out → Ship it: Understand customer needs, regulatory realities, market landscape, and consumer insight into clear product propositions—then deliver them
- Craft world-class journeys: own flows and details that build confidence and speed
- Serve every skill level: build beginner pathways with guidance and guardrails, while keeping expert workflows fast and flexible—no bloat, just value
- Localise for real markets: incorporate tax logic, languages, products, and UX localisation so the product feels native per country
- Lead cross-functionally: partner tightly with Design and Engineering to scope, prioritise, and ship; balance craft with delivery
- Decide with evidence: talk to customers; measure the performance; prove what works, kill what doesn’t
- Raise the bar: set and enforce standards for clarity, performance, accessibility, trust signals, and consistency across core surfaces
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Lightyear is building a stock trading app that provides users with commission-free investment opportunities. It aims to reduce the barrier of entry to investing (users can invest from £1) and simplify the seemingly complicated nature of investing.
The company differentiates itself by making investing extremely easy. In only a couple of minutes, users create an investment account and start investing. Moreover, Lightyear aims to provide users with intuitive tools that allow them to make informed decisions.
Lightyear has attracted an impressive level of investment which has been used to fuel its expansion into European markets. It is further consolidating its success by releasing a much-demanded web app, allowing its users to manage their portfolio at a desk rather than just on the small screen. This gives it an edge against European rivals who are yet to publically launch their web platforms, and Lightyear will be sure to exploit this early mover advantage.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2025
$23m
SERIES B
Jul 2022
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $57.9m
Company benefits
- Offices in central London (Old Street)
- Flexible working hours
- A flexible approach to working remotely
- Private health insurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- All the usual office facilities, including free tea, coffee & snacks
- Dog-friendly office (20% distracting, but 100% cute: see here)
- Quarterly international team events
Company HQ
Spitalfields, London, UK
Leadership
Martin Sokk
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at TranferWise for 5 years, holding various positions such as Head of People for 1 year and Head of Product for 4 years.
Mihkel Aamer
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Software Engineer at UBS for 1 year and an Engineering Lead at Transferwise for 6 years.
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