UK Chief of Staff, Upvest
+ Employee equity program
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
Investment API
Be an early applicant
Investment API
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Employee equity program
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
Upvest's mission is to make investing as easy as spending money and to enable businesses to build investment experiences their customers love.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years experience working in investments, banking or fintech - with exposure to strategy, commercial, product and/or regulatory topics
- You have demonstrated strong leadership and communication skills, effectively engaging internal and external stakeholders to drive change
- You thrive in ambiguity and enthusiastically take the initiative to drive improvements; you probably have multiple examples of taking responsibility and creating roles and opportunities for yourself
- You’re a generalist - you love solving problems, working with cross-functional teams across a range of domains to get things done, and connecting the dots between people and topics
- You excel at analysing complex problems, breaking them down into actionable insights, and driving towards measurable outcomes
- You enjoy building relationships with clients/partners and have experience working with them collaboratively to solve problems and achieve shared goals
- You are a fintech enthusiast, ideally have experience in the investment market and are excited to shape the future of investing
Desirable
- Consulting experience
- Financial services GTM/ sales or account management experience
- Experience working across a range of regulatory topics in financial services
- Industry knowledge - thorough understanding of the investment industry, its current trends and competitive landscape
What the job involves
- We launched in the UK early in 2025 after obtaining our FCA authorisations and have launched our initial clients. We’re looking for fintech enthusiasts to join us in creating the financial infrastructure of tomorrow
- We’re building the first Investment API to enable any financial institution offering a wide range of efficient and transparent investment products, such as stocks and ETFs in nominal, portfolio, and fractional form. Our mission and vision is to make investing as easy as spending money
- Shape Upvest’s UK business and strategy to establish the leading investment infrastructure for fintechs, banks, brokers and wealth managers
- Play a critical role in scaling a growing business, acting as an extension of the general manager and collaborating with senior leadership to execute strategic goals and support our clients to scale
- Work closely with our UK clients and cross-functionally with product, operations, legal/compliance and strategy teams to deliver impactful change
- Lead high-impact projects, gaining broad exposure across the business
- Build external relationships with clients, ecosystem partners and industry/policy bodies to provide external insights and inform best practice
- Help us build and maintain a positive and proactive culture in the UK team and maintain the foundations for effective collaboration
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Upvest is a fintech startup that empowers financial services companies to provide their customers with access to a full range of financial assets, including stocks, ETFs and crypto products. Upvest's investment API integrates seamlessly with its customers existing systems and is designed to scale easily, freeing companies from the need to develop their own brokerage and custody infrastructure from scratch.
As one of the few companies in Germany that is licensed for both the custody of traditional securities and crypto, Upvest is able to provide its services across Europe. Its solution has been readily adopted by some major players in the space including Ginmon, Vivid and ABN AMRO.
Upvest is backed by a number of Europe's largest tech VCs (Earlybird, Notion Capital, Partech, HV Capital, ABN AMRO Ventures) alongside American investment monolith BlackRock. In 2023, it closed a VC investment round, which the company has claimed is one of the largest in the German fintech arena. This was followed up by an impressive Series C at the end of 2024, which is being used to grow its team, enhance its product and cement its presence in the UK.
Steph
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Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Dec 2024
$105.1m
SERIES C
Oct 2023
$31.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $199.6m
Company benefits
- Greenfield projects - We’re building something quite complex. A first in Europe. This means you get to work with cutting-edge technologies, with no legacy code.
- Wellbeing - Everyone here has access to our in-house coach. You can have regular sessions to support you personally and professionally. We also believe it’s important to have time out to rest and recover, which is why we offer 30 days’ holiday.
- Development - In keeping with one of our values, ‘Learn and grow’, every Upvenger has access to a development budget. And in line with one of our other values, ‘Own the outcome’, how you make the most of it is up to you.
- Flexibility - We work in a hybrid set-up, with the team spread around Germany and other parts of Europe. We give you the choice and budget to work where you’re most comfortable and productive, either at home or in the office. You choose.
Company HQ
Kollwitzkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Martin Kassing
(Founder & CEO)They have experience in fintech, private equity and capital markets. Founded another fintech, Shop.co, which was acquired by Klarna.
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