Product Associate - London, United Kingdom - Griffin

Griffin

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

About Griffin:

Hi, we're Griffin We're the bank for companies who want to build and launch financial products.

Our context:

We're rapidly heading towards a future where most of us access financial services through technology companies rather than high street banks.

All sorts of companies are now
embedding financial products into their apps and user journeys so that their customers can seamlessly make payments, manage expenses, take out loans, save, invest, and do more.

The problem is that companies are still dependent on legacy banking infrastructure if they want to offer regulated financial products.

They need to either partner directly with an (slow-moving, risk-averse) incumbent bank and/or stitch together middleware from various Banking as a Service (BaaS) providers.

This process is slow, expensive, and complex and makes it very hard for companies to get new financial products off the ground.

At Griffin, we want to change this.

Our purpose:

We want to make it easy for companies to bring finance to their customers at the point of greatest relevance.

So, we built a bank.

But not just any bank Griffin is a technology platform _and_ a bank: fully regulated, API-first, developer-centric, and purpose-built to serve innovative fintechs and brands who want to build and embed financial products.

Learn more about what we do.

Our culture**:

Our culture is our most important asset, and one of the ways we safeguard it is by being extremely intentional about hiring the right people.

We won't hire people who don't seem like a strong fit for our core values, even if they're otherwise extremely qualified.

We also believe that smart, motivated, conscientious people thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments. That's why we're transparent by default, and we encourage open discussion and challenge across all levels of the organisation.

We're also remote-first, asynchronous, and fully flexible - because you're the expert on how and when you do your best work.

Learn more about our culture.

The Product Team:

At Griffin, we believe that great organisations are those that focus on building great products for their customers.

On that mission, it's the product team's job to shape our products and manage the complete development, launch, and growth of the product, co-ordinating support from other Griffin guilds.

Success in this role involves getting into the detail of product shaping and development to help better define our products, so that we can deliver better outcomes for customers.

Financial services is a complex industry, and unpacking that complexity will be a key input into our product development process.

Who are you:

Proven experience of supporting product delivery and teams throughout the product development lifecycle, be that as a product manager, or within strategy, operations, or engineering functions.
Previous experience at a bank, fintech, or other financial services company.
A good understanding of one of more key banking and payments concepts, products, and systems bank accounts, interest, loans, treasury management, or payments (Faster Payments, CHAPS, Bacs, SWIFT).
Experience working closely with engineers as part of a crossfunctional team to build new products and features.
A strong coordinator and communicator. You'll act as a centralising force for key product functions such as reporting, and need to keep product managers and other stakeholders informed of our progress.
We're an early stage startup, so there will also be adhoc projects and research along the way. Comfort with stopping, starting and midcourse changes will be important.

We're hybrid-remote, and most of your colleagues will not share an office with you on a day-to-day basis.

This means you should also have:

A high degree of comfort adopting new software tools for document drafting, collaboration and communication.
A love of writing we have a major amount of written documentation that you will be contributing to, and we place a high degree of importance on clarity and readability

What will you be doing here?:

As a Product Associate at Griffin, you will help deliver new products and features by leading end to end product delivery of specific parts of our platform, as well as supporting our Product Managers in the smooth running of the Product team.

As such, you'll be expected to

Conduct market research and customer needs discovery for new products and features, informing product scope and prioritisation.
Lead requirements gathering and document the functional and nonfunctional requirements for new products and features.
Work closely with engineers, designers, and product marketers, to design new products and features to meet customer requirements.
Help different guilds (Engineering, Operations, Financial Crime) understand product scope at both a technical and operational level to support delivering and ongoing running of our products.