19 days ago

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Product Strategist (FTC)

TrueLayer

London, UKUKRemote

Who we are:

At TrueLayer, we’re building the future of payments. We’re on a mission to take on outdated payment methods with a solution designed for today’s online, on-demand economy. By removing friction at the heart of commerce — the payment — we’re making it faster, safer, and smarter for everyone.

To date, we’ve raised $300 million from world-renowned investors including Stripe, Tiger Global, Addition, and Tencent. With offices in London, Milan, and Dublin, we’re trusted by industry leaders like RyanAir and Just Eat Takeaway. But this is just the beginning.

We’re reimagining how the world pays, invests, shops, and saves. We’re transforming payments for industries like e-Commerce and iGaming, redefining what’s possible with technology and innovation. Now, we’re looking for people who are ready to help us build a brand that changes an industry.

Description

The Product Strategist leads feasibility assessment on new geographies and new product ideas and creates the pricing rate cards to appropriately price those new products and features in the market. 

In this role, you’ll work closely with Product, Product Marketing, Partnerships, Design, and Commercial to assess new product opportunities across the industry verticals and markets we serve or aspire to serve. The role requires strong cross-functional collaboration, a highly strategic mindset, strong business acumen and an ability to build strong external and internal relationships.

What we expect from you as a Product Strategist :  

  • Lead in product discovery initiatives. Coordinate and work with Product, Product Marketing, Partnerships, and Commercial to identify and assess new products, new value add services, and geographical expansion initiatives. 
  • Own the desirability and viability outputs by conducting deep market research (qualitative and quantitative) to assess the viability of new product and geographical opportunities. This includes defining the TAM, TrueLayer’s competition assessment, incumbent payment methods assessment, general SWOT analysis, high level business case creation etc.
  • Work with Commercial, Product, Policy and Finance teams to build TrueLayer’s point of view on the commercial model for commercial VRPs and related multi-lateral agreements. 
  • Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the payments industry, market trends, and competitive landscape, with a focus on real time bank payments.
  • Work with Commercial, Partnerships, and Finance to produce initial pricing rate cards for new products and geographies taking into account all internal costs of provision of products and services to enable the creation of price points that fit with company margin requirements.

About you:

  • Senior leader with experience working with product and commercial functions 
  • A strategic thinker with a strong business acumen
  • Robust analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proven ability to make data-driven decisions and work confidently with numbers
  • Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
  • Proficient in conducting desk-based and in-market research
  • Start-up experience; thrives in scrappy environments and is highly adaptable when navigating ambiguity and fast-changing conditions.

Benefits

What you can expect from us:

  • Flexible hours and hybrid working - we offer a hybrid approach to work of 3 days per week remote working 🏡 and 2 days per week in our new offices in London 🇬🇧 Milan 🇮🇹  and Dublin 🇮🇪
  • Need to collect the kids from childcare? Love a workout in the gym first thing?  No worries, we trust you to do your best work within our hybrid framework 🧘
  • A one-off remote-working budget to help you set up your home office 💺
  • 24 days holiday as standard  ✈️ with flexible bank holidays, so you can take those days whenever you like 🌍
  • 12 fully-paid wellbeing days a year and your birthday off (on top of the holiday allowance) 🕊️
  • 2 volunteering days to support causes important to you
  • 90 day ‘work from abroad’ policy 👩‍💻☀️
  • Competitive pension contribution at 4% & 4% 🧓
  • Private health insurance from the day you start 🧑‍⚕️
  • Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill and premium Calm subscription
  • A £1000 budget to spend on learning & development each year 📚
  • Free lunch from Just Eat 🥙 (If you choose to work from the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays)

At TrueLayer, we don’t just do inclusion and diversity. We embrace people that have different opinions, perspectives and personalities. Because we believe that by seeing the world from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all the people who live in it. We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups (e.g. people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from all socio-economic backgrounds). If you’d like to discuss alternative working patterns, please let us know.

We will always aim to make appropriate adjustments to ensure we are fully inclusive to people with different needs during our interview process. So if you need us to make any adjustments to suit your individual needs please let us know - we’ll be happy to support you.