Product manager - Firm management

The role is 2-3 days a week hybrid at the office near which you’re based in London, Bath or Edinburgh.

About us

Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform, on a mission to help more people invest, and invest well.

We’re building the infrastructure behind the next generation of investing. Our technology already powers some of the UK’s most ambitious fintechs, banks, financial advisers and wealth firms, with close to a million investors relying on Seccl-powered platforms. And we’re now expanding into Europe.

We’ve got a proven product, strong momentum and big ambitions for what comes next: helping more household-name brands launch and scale investment propositions, entering new markets and replacing outdated investment infrastructure with technology that’s faster, simpler and built for scale.

We’re proud to be part of Octopus, one of the UK’s most successful privately held investment and technology groups. That gives us the backing and long-term perspective to build something substantial, while keeping the pace and energy of a high-growth business. Seccl and Octopus are both B Corp certified and share a belief that profit and purpose should go hand in hand. If you want to help shape the future of investing in the UK and across Europe, you’ll be in good company.

Check out the Seccl website to see what we’re building and read more about our mission to shape the future of investments.

The role

We’re looking for a Product manager to own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for our firm management problem space. You’ll take responsibility for how firms onboard with Seccl, manage their businesses and deal with performing compliance checks on end investors.

You’ll work as part of a cross-functional team, collaborating and partnering closely with engineering, operations, customer-facing teams, and our risk and compliance team to drive meaningful outcomes for our clients and their end users.

Working alongside the product leadership, you’ll define the long-term vision for your product, establish metrics, and use that to frame progress. Your role involves deeply understanding market dynamics, identifying pain points and opportunities, and translating these insights into demonstrable customer value.

With your Senior engineering manager, you’ll lead your squad through discovery, shaping, development, and delivery. Balancing strategic thinking with execution to shape the future of our platform. You’ll work closely with our customer and operation teams to gather insights and requirements, validate solutions, and problem solve while using quantitative and qualitative data to make evidence-based decisions.

You’ll work at the heart of your squad, prioritising and maintaining a consistent view across your team of what you should be building and why. You’ll balance competing priorities and technical initiatives against your own strategic view, aligning the resultant roadmap with risk and compliance to ensure a balance of product improvement, innovation and regulatory integrity.

What you’ll own...

You’ll be responsible for building with your squad, developing a broader strategic direction and coordinating with Product leadership in a domain that’s centred around how Seccl’s customers set-up and operate. You’ll parse information in your domain and develop that into a roadmap with associated discovery and shaping.

These are some of the main problem spaces that you’ll be working on:

• Firm onboarding, set-up and branding: Ensuring that firms can start making the most of Seccl’s products. That starts early in the launch process and carries through to how companies with billions of pounds under management can run their businesses on our platform effectively.

• KYC, AML and sanction screening: Working closely with our Risk team and customers to deliver products and workflows that keep all parties compliant and assured. As a regulated entity and organisation that cares about the longevity of our business, this is foundational.

• Operational Products: Solving problems for ops users as they manage how end investors interact with our processes. Ensuring that Seccl can continue to scale smoothly.

• Technical touch points: Improving how Seccl’s webhooks communicate events and how our technical documentation facilitates integration and feature adoption.

• Lead discovery, shaping and delivery with your squad engineering manager, aligning teams on what to build and why

This role’s for you if...

• You’ve worked in a Product role and understand how to turn problems into useful products in a B2B2C space

• You’re a builder who cares about what existing and future customers actually need

• You’re curious and empathetic, and use qualitative and quantitative evidence to understand problems and test solutions

• You can balance competing priorities, make pragmatic trade-offs and explain your reasoning clearly

• You partner effectively with engineering, operations, customers and risk or compliance stakeholders

• You’re comfortable with the ambiguity and pace of a scaling business

• You have experience in fintech, particularly in an early-stage or scaling business, and with regulated products.

• Desired: You have a passion and track record in improving end user experience while maintaining flawless fraud-management regulatory compliance

Who you are...

• A builder: The thing that you want to do is build what our customers, both existing and future, want to use. All the things that you do and how you approach the day-to-day are orientated around this.

• Curious and empathetic: The best way to build things that people want to use is to understand the nature of the problems that afflict them. You’re someone who is both fascinated by those problems and can gather the data that defines and clarifies them.

• Has experience in fintech and regulated environments: Ideally, you’ve worked in a company that will give you a head-start in understanding how to exceed at Seccl. That means a fintech, most likely at an early or scale stage – or you were part of the company at those stages. Bonus points for having worked on a product that’s regulated.

• Able to handle scaling: Seccl is growing quickly and that means there’s a lot of context to understand and a growing world of possibilities to explore. That means engaging in trade-offs, pragmatically choosing between committing your team to work that holds an equally compelling argument. You’re able to articulate what assumptions you’re making and guide people through your reasoning.

• Product or product-adjacent: You’ve worked in Product, or in a role that’s adjacent. Understanding the expectations of the role and the patterns that drive success will be key in getting you up-to-speed quickly.

This role isn’t for you if...

• You want a fixed brief: this domain is evolving, and you’ll be expected to question and shape its boundaries

• You prefer delivery without discovery: understanding the problem and validating solutions are central to this role

• You want to avoid regulatory complexity: compliance and customer outcomes need to work together

• You prefer priorities to be decided for you: you’ll need to make and communicate trade-offs

What’s in it for you

We offer a generous mix of benefits designed around the things that matter to our people:

💰 An annual salary between £65 000 and £80 000 reviewed annually, plus a 6% employer pension contribution and life assurance

🌴 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, your birthday off and paid dependant leave

💙 Two volunteering days each year

🌎 The option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year

🌟 Secclbrate, our recognition programme offering flexible rewards including extra pay, additional holiday and increased learning budget

🏅 One-month paid sabbatical after eight years

🏥 Private medical insurance with AXA Health

👪 Enhanced parental leave

💻 MacBook and up to £500 towards your home office set-up

📖 Annual learning budget

🌻 Health and wellbeing support, including free therapy through Wellness Cloud and mental health support through Headspace

🌱 Financial wellbeing benefits, including Octopus Money, the Octopus Share Incentive Plan and will writing through Octopus Legacy

🎁 Perkbox, with flexible points and a range of discounts and perks

🚲 Access to Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing

Our culture

We put people first and try hard to create an environment where people feel trusted, heard and able to do their best work.

We value openness, curiosity and different perspectives. You’ll have the freedom to challenge how things are done, experiment with better ways of working and take real ownership of your impact.

Check out our Glassdoor page for the latest reviews or our LinkedIn for company updates and insights from the team.

Interview process

Interviewing is a two-way process. Our interviews are conversational, with plenty of time for you to get to know us and ask questions too.

• Talent screen – 30 min with the Talent partner to explore your experience and fit to the role

• First round – 45 min skill based interview with the Group product manager

• Case study round – 60 min presentation with a Senior engineering manager and Group product manager

• Bar raiser – 45 min with two Seccl culture champions focused on cultural alignment

We review applications as they come in and may close the role once we have enough candidates to move forward. We’ll keep you updated throughout.

Everyone’s welcome

We want to build a diverse and inclusive company full of brilliant people with different skills, experiences and perspectives. All applicants will be considered without regard to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity or disability.

If this sounds like your kind of thing, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We’d love to hear from you.