Product Lead

CRS Ltd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CRS Ltd, a fast-growing fintech firm in the UK, seeks a hands-on Product Lead to steer customer-driven product developments and launch partnerships. You will work closely with a small, focused squad and collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, Partnerships, Marketing and Finance to align on outcomes and drive commercial impact.

The role emphasizes leadership, end-to-end product ownership, and a strong ability to translate customer needs into actionable engineering work.

Qualifications

• Hands-on product management experience in fintech or accounting tech
• End-to-end product development ownership
• Excellent ability to translate technical language into customer feedback

Responsibilities

• Define product strategy and measure outcomes to meet commercial goals
• Lead continuous discovery with engineering and commercial teams to deliver market-driven features
• Shape solutions using prototypes and experiments and ensure informed decisions by the squad
• Line-manage a product designer and align across product and engineering deliverables with deadlines
• Own integration depth with accounting platforms and product partners and ensure feasibility with engineering

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

RICE framework

Discovery

Integration

Job description

My client is a profitable fintech business founded in the UK & now operating globally – Over last 8yrs scaling an award winning accounting tech platform enabling SME & Mid market clients to grow fearlessly taking control of AP / AR, Credit Control & Cashflow management all in one place…

2026 has been hugely impactful in their growth journey & Q4 is looking brilliant for a product lead to join a enthusiastic product designer & engineering manager to lead customer driven product developments & launch of new product partners to develop our use cases.

This is a hands-on role ( one direct report and you will report into CEO) Most of the week is spent close to the squad, at the level of user stories, acceptance criteria and refinement, with the remainder spent with customers and with colleagues across Sales, Customer Success, Partnerships, Marketing and Finance.

We are looking for a strong stakeholder manager who can ensure the customer voice is articulated through the product roadmap & acted upon from engineering, SLT & customer success.

Responsibilities:

1. Product Strategy & Outcomes

• Contribute ideas & help evolve our product strategy to meet our commercial goals
• Own & report back on clear metrics to ensure product impact is being made
• Apply RICE

1. Continuous discovery

• Run R&D collaboratively with engineering & commercial teams to ensure we are delivering on market demands
• Own customer request backlog & ensure all features are hitting a customer requirement

1. Solution shaping

• Partner internally to ensure multiple solutions utilising prototypes and experiments to ensure we are making right development decisions
• Squad management to break status qou and challenge new ways of working
• Ensure management of data protection, security & compliance

1. Leadership & commercial alignment

• Line management of product designer – 121’s / feedback / progression management
• Agree what ‘ ready’ looks like across all product & engineering deliverables & ensure deadlines are met
• Promote a ‘ product led’ culture across the company bringing all parties on the journey

1. Integration

• Own decisions around integration depth with various accounting platform & product partners
• work with engineering to identify any development needs to enable product goals to succeed e.g. ability to integrate with new partner or new software

Experience:

• Proven success in a hands on and strategic product management role within Fintech, Accounting Tech, Payments, Financial Services
• Sole / founding product manager experience or proven success working in a small close knit team – Strong ability to own end to end product development
• Commercially minded with brilliant ability to translate technical jargon into clear, concise customer feedback
• Proven success in working closely with engineering, customer success & sales to ensure product development is viewed as a priority across the business
• Enjoys upskilling / mentoring & collaborating in a squad
• Partner integration experience within B2B environment