Technical Product Manager

A fast-moving London fintech startup is hiring its first dedicated product person. The company is live, has real customers, and is scaling quickly. You would join a small founding team of around ten people. Ex-operators who move fast and ship real things.

It's less a strategy role, more a building role. You will define what gets built and then build a meaningful part of it yourself. The output is working software in the hands of real customers, no decks or handoffs.

What you will own

• The roadmap: translating commercial priorities and customer reality into a sequenced, defensible plan across multiple product surfaces.
• The build: prototyping and shipping real features with AI: UI, internal tooling, integration glue, from idea to working code.
• The specs: requirements, edge cases, and acceptance criteria sharp enough that engineering moves fast and rarely reworks.
• Architecture conversations: sitting with engineers on system design and technical trade-offs, holding your own and contributing meaningfully.
• Delivery: backlog, blockers, and Jira, driven all the way to launch.
• Partner integrations: scoping API and integration work with third parties into clean, shippable pieces.

Who thrives here

• You ship code. Real features, merged. You can read a schema, reason about an API, and build with AI fluently.
• You think like an engineer. You hold your own in a system-design conversation and work with engineers on architecture, not around them.
• You have taste in what to build. You say no well, sequence ruthlessly, and ship the right thing rather than everything.
• You have around 2-5 years in product, engineering, or technical roles and take autonomy before it is offered.
• You have taken something from 0 to 1, ideally a product that reached real users.

Technical baseline (important)

• A background in full-stack, front-end, or back-end engineering before moving into product.
• Comfort querying databases, reading and reasoning about APIs, and understanding system architecture.
• Side projects, open-source contributions, or personal builds are a bonus.

Why this role is unusual

• First product hire: you will shape how the function is built from scratch.
• Build something on Monday, watch a real customer use it by Friday.
• Work directly with the founders day-to-day.
• Meaningful equity at an early stage with strong commercial traction.
• A technically complex surface: payments, hardware, biometrics - where the constraints are real and the decisions matter.

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