Strategy & Analytics Manager

Story Terrace Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking tech company in the City of London is seeking a Strategy Manager to lead efforts in optimising approval rates through data-driven strategies. You will work with cross-functional teams to enhance decision-making processes and support scalable solutions. Ideal candidates should have a strong analytical background, proficiency in SQL, and proven experience in high-growth settings. This role offers significant growth opportunities and a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Stock options

Exclusive tech leases

33 days off

L&D budget

Performance reviews every 6 months

Enhanced family leave

Workplace nursery scheme

Discounts & wellbeing benefits through Perkbox

Quarterly socials and parties

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in strategy, analytics, or product/data roles in high-growth environments.
• Strong track record of using data to solve complex problems and drive commercial outcomes.
• Experience with data warehouses, dashboards, and monitoring systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic projects to optimise approval rates using a new decisioning platform.
• Design scalable data frameworks and tracking systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for new decisioning logic integration.

Skills

SQL

Analytical thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Education

2:1 or above from a top university in STEM or analytical discipline

Tools

Python

Modern analytics stacks

Job description

Why We Exist

At Raylo, we’re on a mission to accelerate the move to a circular economy. The only way customers and manufacturers will make that shift is if it’s simple and cost-effective - this is where we come in. We’re building a category-defining global subscription infrastructure, making premium tech accessible and affordable for both consumers and businesses. With over 100,000 subscribers in the UK and growth accelerating, we’ve proven the demand for a smarter, more sustainable way to access technology.

Raylo is a B Corp-certified company, driven by purpose and backed by leading investors including NatWest, Channel 4 Ventures, Macquarie, Octopus Ventures, and Telefónica.

We’ve been recognised as part of Tech Nation’s Future Fifty programme, and acknowledged by S&P Global as a Green Financing company. Raylo is also proud to be an Endeavor company, underscoring our role as a high-impact, mission-driven business with global ambitions.

At Raylo, performance matters. We set ambitious goals, move fast, and hold ourselves to a high standard, because our mission is too important to settle for less.

Our Core Values

💡 Be deeply curious – We thrive on innovation through diverse approaches, views, and people.

👟 Walk in your customer’s shoes – To build the best products and make the best decisions for the long term, we must figure out what our customers need, not just what they want.

🎯 Focus and execute – We have a big vision, but we believe in nailing the most important problems first.

💥 Be gritty – Only gritty teams succeed. Our individual ownership, passion, and perseverance mean we’re a team through thick and thin.

What to Expect

As Raylo continues to scale, we’re building out a high-performing Credit and Fraud Strategy team, and this new Strategy Manager role is key to unlocking our next phase of growth. You’ll focus on optimising our approval rates across consumer and business products, with a direct commercial impact. This is a unique opportunity to shape and optimise a newly implemented decisioning platform during a high-growth phase.

You’ll partner with cross-functional teams to integrate new data sources, enhance decisioning logic, and develop scalable solutions that balance complexity, speed, and risk. Your work will be instrumental in designing sustainable growth strategies, delivering on business goals, and influencing decisions at the highest levels of the company.

As we grow, so will you. This role offers both ownership and the chance to progress into senior strategic roles, helping to define how Raylo uses data-driven decisions to lead the market.

What You’ll Do

• Lead strategic projects to optimise approval rates, leveraging our new decisioning platform.
• Design scalable data frameworks and tracking systems to support smarter decisions.
• Use SQL and analytics to investigate key drivers of performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering on technical design and implementation of new decisioning logic and data integrations.
• Partner with Operations to understand day-to-day impact, close feedback loops, and ensure system robustness.
• Align closely with Growth and Marketing teams on acquisition strategies and performance optimisation.
• Liaise with Risk stakeholders to maintain strong controls and ensure sound, explainable decisions.
• Drive innovation in automation, monitoring, and performance tuning of our decisioning systems.
• Balance flexibility and scalability while maintaining high data quality across multiple sources.

You’ll Succeed With

• A 2:1 or above from a top university, ideally in a STEM or other highly analytical discipline
• 3+ years of experience in strategy, analytics, or product/data roles within high-growth, data-driven environments.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL is essential; Python experience is a strong plus.
• Strong track record of using data to solve complex problems and drive commercial outcomes.
• A structured, first-principles thinker with the ability to break down and solve ambiguous problems
• Experience with modern analytics stacks (data warehouses, dashboards, monitoring systems).
• Excellent communicator, able to clearly articulate how insights from data translate into commercial decisions and trade-offs.
• Collaborative, adaptable, and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach to solving problems.

Opportunities & Benefits

We are continuously improving and listening to our quarterly employee surveys to provide the best opportunities and benefits for our employees.

• Share in Raylo’s success – Stock options for all employees
• Get the latest tech – Exclusive Raylo device lease for employees
• 33 days off, your way – 25 days + 8 bank holidays with full flexibility to use on the days that mean the most to you
• Invest in your growth – L&D budget to support the skills you value
• Fast-track your career – Two performance reviews a year
• Family-first policies – Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave, if you’ve been with us for 12 months.
• Save big on childcare – Workplace nursery scheme for major cost savings
• Perks on perks – Perkbox membership with discounts & wellbeing benefits
• Good times, guaranteed – Optional quarterly socials, plus Summer & Christmas parties

Hiring Process

What’s next?

Once you submit your application, our Talent Team will contact you (within 2 weeks) if you have been shortlisted for the role.

We set an exceptionally high bar at Raylo, and in return, we will aim to give you the best candidate experience possible.

If there's anything we can do to make your application process easier for you, because of disability, neurodiversity or any other personal reason, please let us know.

*As an FCA-regulated business, we conduct background checks (DBS and AML) on all successful candidates who are offered a position at Raylo during the onboarding process.

Diversity & Inclusion at Raylo

At Raylo, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, believing they make us stronger.