Product Manager, Funding Circle
Salesforce
3 days a week in office
Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed
Posted today
Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed
1001+ employees
Posted today
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
We back small businesses with the finance they need to succeed. At Funding Circle, we understand running a business is hard work so we provide a fast, hassle-free experience for businesses looking for finance - with SME experts based in the UK.
Role
Who you are
- Passionate about delivering for your customers
- Someone who is comfortable working with ambiguity and helping others to find clarity
- A Salesforce domain expert with prior developer or admin certifications. Note- This is a product role, you will not be expected to do any code/config yourself!
- Excited about solving the technical challenges with large-scale financial systems
- Comfortable working with agile engineering teams
- Experienced in the product development lifecycle, particularly requirement gathering and design phases
- Genuinely interested in financial services business operations, and passionate about supporting small businesses
Desirable
- Knowledge of user-centred product design practices and disciplines
- A Business, Engineering or Computer Science degree, or relevant experience
- Experience using Tableau, SQL/SOQL or customer insight tools to understand the customer
- A background in financial services or past experience running a small business
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Product Manager in our Product & Strategy business area to focus on the Salesforce platform within the UK Loans Funnel Operations domain
- You will be responsible for developing the product strategy, owning the product roadmap, understanding our customers needs and working with cross-functional teams to help achieve our goals
- Helping shape our vision for how we maximise the value of our Salesforce investment with respect to our loan originations funnel
- Gathering and understanding customer requirements with respect to enabling a high performing originations funnel that is ready to scale
- Working with teams across the business to ensure we have a cohesive product, user experience, and roadmap that aligns to our OKRs
- Use your market understanding and domain expertise to create a compelling product vision and translate that into goals for your product team
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to generate ideas and solve problems
- Use qualitative and quantitative tools to understand the customer and develop customer centric products that meet their needs
- Ensure that the team maintain a focus on execution, defining quality outputs and escalating any issues as they arise
- Take ownership of your product outcomes, prioritising brilliantly to drive business results
- Communicate with your stakeholders, building relationships through empathy and clear communication
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Funding Circle launched in 2010 and it was the perfect time in the market. After the financial crisis in 2008, financial institutions were hesitant to lend money. Loans to SMEs were at record lows.
This meant that Funding Circle's innovative platform - connecting investors and businesses directly - had immediate product-market fit and growth. Funding Circle remains incredibly focused on small businesses, and this set it apart from other lending platforms. The business has since expanded to the USA.
The company completed its IPO in September 2018 in a challenging economic environment in Europe and the USA. More recently, however, trading in the group’s core UK market has been helped by its participation in the government’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme – the company says it has been responsible for a quarter of CBILS loans by volume since it was accredited to join the scheme in April 2020.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% female employees
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Focus on employee wellbeing
"We've moved to a hybrid way of working at FC. We have lots of employee benefits, from lunch budgets (Just Eat), to retail discounts, gym/health..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2017
$94.8m
SERIES F
Apr 2015
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $367m
Company benefits
- Annual learning budget
- Private Health insurance covering pre-existing conditions
- 5% Matched Pension
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Access to Wellhub (formally Gym Pass)
- Dental Insurance
- Just Eat for Business 2 days when in the office
Company values
- Think smart
- Obsess over the customer
- Make it happen
- Be open
- Stand together
- Live the adventure
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Samir Desai
(Non Executive Director)Previously a Consultant at BCG and an Investment Executive at Olivant focused on financial services businesses. Awarded a CBE for services to financial services in 2015.
Lisa Jacobs
(CEO)Lisa is CEO of Funding Circle. She is responsible for driving the company’s strategy and overseeing Funding Circle's operations in the UK and US.
Andrew Mullinger
(Co-founder)Founded Funding Circle in 2009 until hiring his replacement in 2016.
James Meekings
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Funding Circle in 2009 and was UK MD up until to 2019. He now spends his time helping, and investing in, early stage companies.
Sam Hodges
(Co-Founder)Sam founded our US business and was US MD up until 2018.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Funding Circle
Poonam Verma (Director of Talent Development, Culture & Belonging)
- It’s in our differences that we find our strengths!
- We celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. So we’re building a culture where difference is valued. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We truly believe diversity makes us better. We particularly encourage applications from applicants from underrepresented backgrounds. We welcome applicants who may want to work flexibly
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