Product Manager

Light; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology startup in the UK seeks a Product Manager to drive product strategy and execution. The ideal candidate will transform complex financial workflows into intuitive experiences and collaborate closely with engineering and design teams. The role offers competitive salary, stock options, and significant opportunities for career growth. Join us to reshape the future of financial operations.

Benefits

Competitive salary + stock options

Paid parental leave

25 days of annual leave + public holidays

Regular socials and company off-sites

Opportunities for career growth

Qualifications

• Experience in an early-stage startup, management consulting, or investment banking.
• Experience in a high-growth startup is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy from conception to scaling.
• Turn complex financial workflows into AI-powered experiences.
• Work with finance teams to shape new automation.

Skills

Structured thinking

Analytical instincts

Clear communication

Curiosity about finance

Education

3–5 years of experience in product/engineering/design

Job description

Retire the ERP. Light exists to replace factory-era ERPs with software that feels alive. Our Smart Financial Platform gives modern, global companies superpowers—automated accounting, real‑time reporting, and financial flows that move at the speed of the business. We build with our customers, ship fast, and obsess over craft. In a short time, Light has gone from idea to the operating core for leading companies like Lovable, Legora, and Keyshot. People don’t just use Light—they enjoy it. We’re an early team defining a new software category. Think engineers who love debits and credits, designers who care about reconciliation states, and operators who treat finance as a product. If you’re excited to modernize how the world runs money—one workflow at a time—you’re in the right place. Backed by world‑class investors and advised by industry titans, we’re building category‑defining products with the freedom to ship ambitiously and own outcomes. Come help us make Light the global default for next‑gen finance.

Visa sponsorship available for exceptional candidates.

The Product Manager role

• Owning product strategy and execution for a core area of Light — from 0→1 to scale.
• Turning complex financial workflows into intuitive, AI‑powered experiences.
• Partnering with Engineering, Design, and Data to ship beautiful, high‑impact products fast.
• Translating ambiguity into structure — defining clear priorities, metrics, and direction.
• Working directly with CFOs, controllers, and finance teams to uncover insights and shape new automation.
• Making crisp, high‑quality decisions — balancing velocity, precision, and impact.

You’ll thrive here if you…

• You move fast, think deeply, and take ownership.
• You have a founder’s mindset — equally comfortable with spreadsheets, sketches, or specs.
• You thrive in structured chaos and get energy from solving hard problems.
• You want to build a category‑defining product with people who expect excellence.

Your qualifications could be:

3–5 years of experience in one or more of the following:

• Founding or operating at an early‑stage startup
• Management consulting (MBB or equivalent)
• Investment banking, private equity, or strategy roles
• Product/Engineering/Design in a high‑growth startup

Your traits

• Exceptionally structured thinking — you cut through complexity fast.
• Strong analytical instincts; you think in systems and numbers.
• Clear communication and crisp written thinking.
• Bias for action — you’d rather test than theorize.
• Curiosity about how finance, automation, and AI intersect.

Bonus points

• Experience in B2B fintech, accounting, or payments.
• Exposure to automation, data‑heavy products, or ML‑powered workflows.
• Working cross‑functionally in small, high‑output teams
• Technical fluency — you can talk APIs and workflows with engineers.

What success looks like in your first 6–12 months

• 🧭 A sharp, insight‑driven roadmap aligned with Light’s mission.
• 🚀 Key features shipped that simplify and speed up finance operations.
• 📊 Metrics‑driven decision‑making embedded in your product area.
• 🤝 Engineering and Design teams love working with you because things move.
• 💡 You’re known as a force multiplier — adding clarity, speed, and structure everywhere you go.

What To Expect In Our Hiring Process

• Short chat with our talent team
• Interview with Product Lead
• Take‑home product challenge
• Interview with future teammates (Engineering & Design)
  • Discussion of challenge
  • Getting to know each other
• Leadership interview
• Offer

Tips to stand out

• Show how you’ve created clarity or structure from scratch.
• Share examples of real outcomes — not just shipped features.
• Walk us through your decision frameworks and tradeoffs.
• Quantify your impact — adoption, growth, efficiency, or time saved.

The good stuff

In addition to being part of a great team and working in a really fun and innovative environment, we offer:

• 💸 Competitive salary + stock options in our fast‑growing start‑up
• 🍼 Paid parental leave
• 🏝 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the UK
• 🥳 Regular socials and company Starsite off‑sites (last time was Southern France and next one is in Spain in October)
• 🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you will help shape a market‑defining product

The famous last words

Working at Light means you are embarking on an exciting journey to reshape the future of multinational financial operations. Our cheat‑code is that we have built something like this before and are now doing it again, only better. Our goal is to make global finance effortless and empower companies to make informed decisions.

Join the rocket ship while it is taking off 🚀