Principal Product Manager

Are you a commercial, entrepreneurial Senior Product Manager who also understands how a business's books actually work? Who thrives building something from zero, not just growing something that already exists?
We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead a strategically important product area from its earliest stages. This is a hands-on, senior role with significant autonomy, working closely with Engineering and Design to shape the product, make difficult calls, and turn ambitious ideas into customer and commercial outcomes.
Join a team building new capabilities for our customers. Join a team building new capabilities for our customers. This is a genuine 0-to-1 opportunity: you'll work with customers, designers and engineers to understand important problems, explore new possibilities, and build experiences that make complex financial work feel much simpler.
What will you be doing?

Own a meaningful product area from problem discovery through adoption

Develop a deep understanding of customers and their underlying needs

Identify and prioritise the problems worth solving

Shape product direction with Design and Engineering

Turn ideas into prototypes and testable experiences quickly

Work directly with customers throughout discovery and delivery

Use qualitative and quantitative evidence to guide decisions

Launch, measure and improve what you build

Make thoughtful trade-offs in an ambiguous environment, and change direction when the evidence changes

Take responsibility for outcomes rather than simply completing a roadmap
What are we looking for?
You may be a strong fit if you:

Have experience as a Principal Product Manager, Product Lead or similar, and have worked on a product from an early stage or led a meaningful 0-to-1 initiative

Product experience in one of: Accounting/Bookkeeping or Payments

Enjoy starting with an ambiguous problem and creating structure

Have strong product judgement and can explain your decisions clearly

Get close to customers and use research to shape what you build

Are comfortable prototyping with AI-assisted development tools, and use AI to improve the quality and speed of your work

Can work effectively with engineers and designers, and connect product decisions to customer and commercial outcomes

Are comfortable making decisions with incomplete information

Are curious about how complex systems work and how they could be made simpler
How you work
You're likely to enjoy this role if you start with the customer, prefer learning through testing over debating hypotheticals, have strong opinions but low ego, and see AI and technology as opportunities to explore rather than constraints to accept.
It would be great if you also have
A good understanding of the accounting process and general ledger from the inside, not just in theory. That means either you're a qualified accountant (ACCA, ICAEW, ATT, AAT or equivalent) with hands-on practice or industry experience, or you're an entrepreneur who has run your own company's books yourself, reconciling the bank, filing VAT returns, keeping the general ledger straight and knows what good bookkeeping actually looks like because you've done it, not delegated it

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