PA and Office Manager, Pollinate
+ performance bonus and share options in Pollinate through our CSOP scheme
Payments infrastructure and management platform
Open for applications
Payments infrastructure and management platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ performance bonus and share options in Pollinate through our CSOP scheme
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build a platform that works with a bank's legacy systems to create data-driven experiences for merchants and consumers.
Role
Who you are
- A Culture Enthusiast: You believe in the power of people and creating spaces where they feel inspired and connected
- A Self-Starter: You’re proactive, resourceful, and love turning ideas into action
- A Natural Organiser: You can juggle priorities and always stay one step ahead
- A Relationship Builder: You thrive on connecting with people building connections
- Detail-Oriented: You’re meticulous, but you never lose sight of the bigger picture
- Passionate About Growth: You’re curious about HR and excited to contribute to initiatives that support employee journeys
- We can only accept candidates who have the right to work in the UK
What the job involves
- At Pollinate we believe our office should be more than just a place to work—it should be a hub for collaboration, innovation, and belonging. As our Personal Assistant and Office Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping an environment where people feel valued, energised, and excited to come together and innovate
- Provide high-level support to our leadership team, enabling them to focus on driving the business forward
- Manage schedules, expenses, organise meetings, book travel and ensure every detail is thoughtfully planned
- Filter and prioritise requests for leadership time and attention, ensuring they focus on what matters most
- Handle sensitive communications with discretion, acting as a trusted gatekeeper and representative of the leadership team
- Be the first smile and warm welcome that sets the tone for everyone who walks through our doors
- Help create an office experience that inspires people to come together, collaborate, and celebrate shared successes
- Lead the charge in making the office a space that reflects our values and amplifies our culture
- Partner closely with HR to support on all things culture, onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring every touchpoint is seamless and welcoming
- Help new hires feel at home from day one, connecting them with our culture and people
- Act as a key resource for employees, assisting with queries, working closely with the Head of HR
- Keep our office running smoothly, managing supplies, facilities, and vendors
- Take charge of logistics for team events, celebrations (Christmas and Summer parties), and meetings—ensuring they run effortlessly, within budget and memorably
- Identify and implement ways to improve the office experience, from small touches to big ideas
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Over the past decade, the merchant acquiring industry has grown from strength to strength, due to huge advances in technology, changes to regulation, customer demand and an increase in disruptive payment companies, challenging retail banks for ownership of their merchant relationships. Pollinate is a software business, focused on reinventing merchant acquiring for banks around the world - it was founded with a keen awareness that banks are under increasing attack from FinTech players, and must step up to compete.
The platform powers merchant and consumer digital experiences including onboarding, portals and loyalty programs, without costly and distracting platform migrations. This allows merchants to more effectively manage their businesses with digital tools and data integrations, grow their businesses by connecting with their consumers, and give back to their local communities. The company aims to connect banks and SMEs, offering merchants a chance to manage payments, understand what they mean, and grow their businesses with their own loyalty and offers scheme — all in one place, with fully integrated data flows.
The company is behind NatWest’s Tyl product, which allows merchants to start taking payments within a day of application. Such strategic enterprise partnerships are what Pollinate hopes to use as leverage. For instance, the company already boasts of Microsoft and Mastercard as partners. Pollinate seems to have a few good years ahead of it.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
20% female employees
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2023
$17.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$44.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $222.1m
Company benefits
- Benefits including up to 20% bonus, pension, life assurance, health insurance, and share options in Pollinate through our CSOP scheme
- Access to the mental health platform, Unmind, and a weekly Yoga class to support your individual wellbeing journey
- A dedicated growth and opportunity initiative, ‘GO!’ focused on empowering and inspiring you to push yourself and your career forward. – this includes access to LinkedIn Learning, A Cloud Guru, an internal coaching and mentoring programme, and a series of sessions with external experts covering a range of topics, such as leadership and intrapreneurship, and more
- Flexible working – we are implementing hybrid working where our hub is used for team or collaboration meetings, company get togethers or when you feel like coming to the office
- Regular social activities – these are starting to happen IRL (in real life) again
Company values
- Ai - 'Collective'
- Ki - 'Energising'
- Do - 'Journey'
Company HQ
Spitalfields, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Alastair Lukies
(Co-CEO)Previously Chairman at Innovate Finance for 3 years and Chair at Fintech Alliance for 1 year
Fiona Roach Canning
(Co-CEO)Initially served as the company's Chief Product & Marketing Officer. Previously Business Analyst at Mitchell Madison Group for 1 year and Head of Strategic Insight at Visa for 3 years
Tim Joslyn
(Advisor)Formerly worked as the company's Chief Technology & Data Officer. Previously Advisor at Akkroo for 2 years and Consultant at Concardis. They have gone on to co-found, advise, and serve as the CTO of several companies.
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