Chief Product & Technology Officer, BUX
More information about location
Office located in Sarphatistraat, Amsterdam
Stocks, crypto & ETF brokerage app
Be an early applicant
Stocks, crypto & ETF brokerage app
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
Office located in Sarphatistraat, Amsterdam
101-200 employees
Company mission
BUX's mission is to make investing easy and affordable for all.
Role
Who you are
- You are a driver, a risk-taker, and a pioneer who views AI not as a feature, but as the foundational enabler of our future
- You don't just manage; you drive change. You have a pioneer mindset, constantly pushing boundaries and taking calculated risks to stay ahead of the curve
- You know how to mature an organisation, professionalise workflows, and maintain a high-performance culture during rapid growth
- You possess a deep-seated conviction in the potential of Agentic AI. With a clear thesis on how AI will disrupt software engineering, you are eager to lead that transformation and prove its impact at scale
- You bring order during periods of rapid growth. You are highly structured, analytical, and lead with clarity and ownership
- You are a master of stakeholder engagement, capable of communicating product and technical visions to the fellow MT colleagues, the parent bank, and the wider company
- Proven track record as a CTO, CPTO or VP of Engineering in a high-growth scale-up, in a regulated environment
- Proven experience in Product Discovery and Lifecycle Management
- Deep technical understanding of AI/ML, specifically in the realm of Agentic AI and its application to developer velocity
- Demonstrated success in scaling engineering organisations from medium-sized to large-scale, high-output teams
- Demonstrated success in aligning Product and Engineering teams to deliver on a single unified roadmap
- Experience with managing engineering budgets over €10mm per year
- Exceptional ability to bridge the gap between technical architecture and business strategy
What the job involves
- To lead our next chapter, we are seeking a Chief Product & Technology Officer to scale our engineering organisation (currently ~40 FTE) and our platform through agentic engineering processes
- As the Chief Product & Technology Officer, you are the architect of our product and technical vision and the engine behind our growth
- You will be responsible for driving growth, leading a dedicated team of highly experienced Engineering, Product and Data professionals
- This is a critical period of maturation for the business. The right balance of entrepreneurial agility and experience of taking businesses through journeys of professionalisation will be highly sought
- You will balance the "move fast" spirit of a scale-up with the "bulletproof" security required of a regulated financial institution
- For the right candidate, this is a unique opportunity: to operate at C-level while remaining close to execution, and to help define the future of investing and wealth-building for a new generation
- Reporting directly to the CEO and sitting on the Management Team, your mission is to ensure our infrastructure is rock-solid and secure while relentlessly driving the innovation that keeps us at the forefront of the fintech domain
- In this role, you will be working and collaborating closely with the BUX Management Team, steering the BUX Product, Engineering, Data and AI departments, and managing internal and external stakeholders
- Strategic leadership & delivery:
- Act as a core member of the Management Team, aligning product & technical roadmaps with overarching company strategy and ambitious commercial timelines
- You maintain a deep competitive awareness of market trends, ensuring our platform remains a benchmark for innovation in the European financial landscape
- You have a product mindset, with technology being the driver of our growth and customer satisfaction
- Scaling and maturation:
- Establish a culture where decisions are made based on facts, rigorous metrics, and clear ROI
- Scale the Engineering organisation through a phase of rapid expansion, ensuring that as the team grows, per-capita output increases with the help of agentic engineering
- Continuously improve the core product offering by developing innovative features based on evolving customer insights, behavioural data, and business needs
- Leading the AI transformation:
- You see beyond basic AI assistance. You will architect and implement a fully Agentic Software Development process, leveraging AI agents to automate coding, testing, and deployment
- Lead the strategic upskilling of the engineering organisation; you will be responsible for evolving our talents’ capabilities to thrive in an agentic environment
- Drive AI experimentation across the organisation, from hyper-personalised customer wealth-building insights to internal operational efficiency
- Define the governance, security, and control frameworks for AI-driven development in a regulated banking environment
- Driving operational excellence & Security:
- Future-proof the organisation in terms of security and resilience, in line with the latest security standards and regulations (e.g. DORA)
- Own the IT infrastructure and security strategy. In our high-stakes environment, you ensure we meet and exceed the regulatory and security measures required to operate within a major banking group. Experience with Google Cloud is a plus
- Establish and refine the engineering processes required to achieve rapid delivery without compromising on quality or compliance
- Leading teams & shaping the engineering culture:
- Attract, develop, and retain world-class talent
- Take full responsibility for the engineering organisation, mentoring the next generation of technical leaders and fostering a culture of high performance and ownership
- Lead the organisation through its transformation in terms of scale, output and security with attention to team members, dynamics and workload. Affinity with people management and organisational transformation
- This is not a steady-state environment; we are in a scale-up phase, with significant growth ambitions across markets, products, and capabilities. The decisions made today will directly shape the company we become
- Our engineering team is at the core of everything we do, driven by a culture of high autonomy and technical excellence
- We offer a modern fintech environment where you can experiment, learn quickly, and see the direct impact of your leadership on our product
- You will lead a dedicated group of professionals who take their craft seriously, providing the strategic vision to shape both what we build and how we build it
- We operate a high-performance, event-driven microservices architecture hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Our stack leverages Java/Spring Boot and Python for core services, with Kafka ensuring low-latency communication and Kubernetes orchestrating our global scale
Application process
- We usually respond within three days
- An introductory call with our Recruitment team
- A panel interview with members of the Management Team
- A strategic assignment and presentation of the assignment
- A final conversation with our CEO
Our take
Recent innovations in banking and apps have opened the door for the average consumer to engage in a new set of financial services. BUX facilitates this as Europe’s fastest growing neobroker.
While the application has not reached the omnipresent level of market leaders like Robinhood, BUX is the first and only business to have built a full-stack system of its own, giving it the ability to adapt and scale in a way competitors cannot. Keeping up with the evolving investment space, the company launched BUX Crypto in 2022, granting its thousands of users access to trading cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
Also in 2022, the company purchased the retail arm of neobroker Ninety Nine, with all its existing retail customers moving over to BUX. This has significantly bolstered its Spanish marketshare, as it moves ahead with a strategy to double down on its flagship application and help clients build long-term wealth moving into the future. The sale of BUX's Cyprus arm to Coinbase in 2024 will allow BUX to hone in on market presence and product capabilities.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$80m
LATE VC
Jun 2019
$8.9m
LATE VC
Total funding: $111.9m
Company benefits
- Work from anywhere in the world for one month per year
- Unlimited 1-on-1 access to on-demand coaching and mindfulness consultations with psychologists through OpenUp
- A supportive environment that encourages continuous learning and development
- Dedicated training budget for to use towards improving current skills or learning something entirely new
- Celebrations - we make sure to do plenty of fun stuff together, like dinner and drinks or activities like flyboarding, rafting and off-road jeep driving
Company HQ
Plantage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Yorick Naeff
(Co-Founder & CEO)Started at ING as a Management trainee where he became a Senior Manager after only three years. Worked as COO at Bux for 5 years before becoming UK CEO and then CEO of the entire organisation in 2021.
Egbert Pronk
(Co-Founder & CFO)Worked in options trading for over a decade, eventually becoming Head of Trading for Van der Moolen. After that, Egbert worked as CFO for a large consumer baked goods brand based in the Netherlands.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 5 more jobs at BUX