light-inc - Product Manager

• Multi-disciplinary experience broadly in product development: either product, engineering or design in a high-growth SaaS and AI startup companies • Ability to translate product vision and customer requirements into supportive guidance & direction for engineering teams • Influential experience in stakeholder engagement and communication at leadership and delivery team level • Practical experience using AI or emerging technology tools to improve productivity, insight, or decision-making, with the ability to apply first-principles thinking to new problems • 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 theorise • Curiosity about how finance, automation, and AI intersect • 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 • Operating or founding at an early-stage startup • Management consulting (MBB or equivalent) • 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. • 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. • In addition to being part of a great team and working in a really fun and innovative environment, we offer: • 💸 Competitive salary + potential stock options • 🏝 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the UK • 🥳 Regular socials and company Starsite offsites • 🚀 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.