Product Manager, Griffin
Payments
Tax-advantaged stock options under HMRC's Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)
Full-stack Banking-as-a-Service platform with a banking license
Job no longer available
Full-stack Banking-as-a-Service platform with a banking license
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
Tax-advantaged stock options under HMRC's Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify the complexity of banking infrastructure and compliance operations, so their customers can focus on what they really care about.
Role
Who you are
- Experience as a Product Manager within banking or fintech with experience in payment processing and schemes, or core banking infrastructure
- Deep experience in cross border payment schemes (e.g. SWIFT, SEPA etc) and/or cards
- Experience working with engineering teams to translate the product vision into deliverable solutions that can be built, tested and taken to market
- Experience of working closely with product designers and/or experience with the UX/UI design process
- Previous experience of understanding customer needs, using this to shape your rationale and being the voice of the customer internally. Comfortable leading customer engagements on their products
- You are a great facilitator who consistently makes sure everyone in the product team has what they need to deliver great customer outcomes
- A track record of delivery - you have owned and delivered a key product or portion of a product before from end to end
- Comfortable leading product discoveries involving customers, vendors and internal teams. Able to synthesise regulatory documents and incorporate takeaways into discoveries
- Commercially minded to input into pricing and cost decisions, including in business cases
What the job involves
- At Griffin, we believe that great organisations are those that focus on building great products for their customers
- On that mission, it’s the product team’s job to shape our products and manage the complete development, launch, and growth of the product, co-ordinating support from other Griffin guilds
- Success in this role involves getting into the detail of product shaping and development to help better define our products, so that we can deliver better outcomes for customers
- Financial services is a complex industry, and unpacking that complexity will be a key input into our product development process
- Lead a new Payments product to deliver a new capability such as Cross-border payments or Cards for Griffin
- Contribute to the vision and product strategy for the company. As the lead PM for your domain, you will help us find the product market fit for your product
- Be the balance between market demands and deliverability - core to the role is to be the bridge between customer needs (i.e. requirements) and engineering scope (i.e. specifications)
- Evangelise our product culture. Make sure we adopt product management best practice and maintain a strong focus on customer needs
- Work with your product domain team & other functions to design, build and monetise your product in alignment with the company goals
- Run the product rituals such as standups, business case creation, prioritisation, etc. with your virtual team and other stakeholders across the firm
- Advance our risk culture through closely working with 2nd line risk & compliance stakeholders
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Griffin is working to change the banking world, which they see as exclusive, opaque, and not particularly technology-friendly. Their aim is to lower barriers to entry for fintechs and increase transparency.
To achieve this, they are designing a wholesale bank from the ground up, focusing on the problems their customers face and following steps to solve them.
Griffin is taking a novel approach, offering a bank-as-a-platform model with integrated compliance to allow customers to get their financial products to market quickly and cost-effectively.
Their systems have the capability to move faster than existing banks burdened by legacy tech and provide new opportunities to financial technology firms over a wide range of business models.
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39% female employees
67% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2024
$23.2m
SERIES A
Mar 2023
$13.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $64.8m
Company benefits
- Life insurance through AIG
- Generous stock option grants for everyone at the company
- Private medical insurance through Vitality
- A weekly team lunch on Griffin (even when you're working remotely)
- Auto-enrolment into company pension scheme
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Remote first working culture, If you want to to work from home you can and you can expense your office set up. Equally, we have an office in London where you can work, as well as the ability to work from shared working spaces
- Up to 6 months fully paid parental leave (depending on tenure)
- Annual(ish) company offsite
Company values
- Thoughtfulness - Take your time
- Kindness and Empathy - Assume the best of each other
- Resilience - Don't give up easily
- Simple made easy - Reduce complexity where possible
- Transparent - Open by default
- Be Deserving of Trust - We measure ourselves against the highest standard of conduct
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Allen Rohner
(CTO)Previously founded CircleCI and authored the book Learning ClojureScript with co-founder David.
David Jarvis
(CEO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Standard Treasury and Airbnb.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Griffin
Jenna Baker (Chief People Officer )
- Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your intersection of identities & background. If you're part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we'd love to hear from you.
- We offer enhanced parental leave for Grifflings - you’re able to take 26 weeks of parental leave. This increases to 52 weeks if you are based in the UK AND you are the birthing parent, the primary-caregiver adopter, or if you and your partner decide to use UK’s Shared Parental Leave.
- We'll pay you in full for 13 weeks of parental leave, and then the greater of 50% pay or London Living Wage for the following 13 weeks, provided you’ve been with us for 6 months on your expected due date or placement date.
- If you have been with us for two years (or more!) by your expected due date or placement date, we will pay you in full for 26 weeks of parental leave
- We are flexible with our approach to work, work from home, the office or a shared working space, it's really up to you! We also are flexible on what hours you work too, we understand that life can sometimes just get in the way and you need to be able to pick up the kids from school.
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