Lead Product Manager, EWA

Cleo; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Comprehensive health insurance

Mental health support

Paid sabbatical after four years

Learning & development platform

Pension or retirement contributions

Location-specific leave entitlements

Job summary

Cleo is seeking a hands-on Lead Product Manager to drive Cleo’s Credit products forward. You’ll lead a cross-functional squad to uncover customer needs, shape bold new product directions, and turn early ideas into testable experiences for one of Cleo’s most important product areas.

You should bring several years in consumer fintech or credit-focused roles, a track record of mobile app product work, and a data-driven, outcome-focused mindset that thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

Qualifications

• Several years of credit-focused product experience.
• Experience in consumer fintech or personal finance products.
• Proven mobile app product work in high-growth, product-led environments.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-potential product opportunities through customer insight and market understanding.
• Lead early-stage ideation, prototyping, and lean research to validate concepts.
• Unify the squad around a clear product vision and translate it into high-quality experiences with Design and Engineering.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to shape product direction and solve complex customer problems.
• Build data-informed business cases that communicate value and drive decisions.

Skills

Credit product experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Mobile app product experience

Fintech background

Job description

Most money apps talk at you. Cleo talks back.

We're not building another finance app. We're building the world's first AI financial assistant, one that actually understands your money and makes you better at it, and we're changing the world's relationship with money in the process. For everyone, whatever their background or balance.

The proof: profitable, fast-growing, a unicorn with over $300M in ARR, and millions of people who now feel differently about their money.

We love original thinkers who challenge the status quo. We move fast, tell the truth, and there's nowhere to hide from good work here. If that excites you more than it scares you, you'll fit right in.

Follow us on LinkedIn for new features and the occasional roast.

Meet The Team

Here at Cleo we have team of ~135 member in our Credit Pillar. This function brings together several specialisms, all working toward managing portfolio performance; designing the systems, models, and controls that make lending sustainable. They drive to build and grow a portfolio of responsible EWA & Pay Later products that can scale across markets while protecting users from high cost debt trap.

About The Role

We’re hiring a hands-on Lead Product Manager to drive Cleo’s Credit products forward. You’ll lead a cross-functional squad to uncover customer needs, shape bold new product directions, and turn early-stage ideas into compelling, testable experiences for one of Cleo’s most important product areas.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify high-potential product opportunities through customer insight, market understanding, and Cleo’s unique strengths.
• Lead early-stage ideation, prototyping, and lean research to validate concepts and reduce uncertainty quickly.
• Bring your squad together around a clear product vision, translating it into polished, high-quality experiences with Design and Engineering.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to shape product direction and solve complex customer problems.
• Build persuasive narratives and data-informed business cases that communicate the value of new ideas and drive decisions.

What We're Looking For

• You should ideally have several years of relevant experience and passion for credit focused work at a senior level
• Experience in consumer-facing fintech or personal finance products
• You can share mobile app product work that demonstrates a proven record of driving high-quality execution in high-growth, fast-paced, product-led businesses
• You are strongly outcome-focused, balancing business goals and user needs through small, rapid, experiment-led product improvements
• You thrive on getting deep into the data and the details to optimise existing features and journeys
• You are a proactive problem solver who can effectively bring structure to large or ambiguous problems to generate buy-in from stakeholders
• You are a strong cross-functional collaborator who can partner successfully with tech and marketing stakeholders to deliver bottom line impact on growth

What we offer

We offer benefits package built to support you in and out of work.

Benefits vary by country and include:

• meaningful equity
• comprehensive health insurance
• mental health support
• a paid one-month sabbatical after four years
• a learning & development platform
• pension or retirement contributions
• location-specific leave entitlements

For the full breakdown on what's available in your location, visit our Candidate Hub

What Matters

Cleo's mission is to change the world's relationship with money. We can't do that without building a brilliant, genuinely diverse team - and making sure our hiring process gives everyone a fair shot, running a fair and transparent recruitment process in which every candidate is considered on their merits.

We're glad to make reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process. If there's anything we can do to support you in showing us your best, please let your recruiter or one of the team know.

We may use AI-assisted tools during the recruitment process to take support the team in different ways like taking notes or referring back to conversations. They do not replace the team and all applications are reviewed by a Cleo employee thoroughly!