Requirements
- Entrepreneurial experience: you’ve founded, co-founded or led a high-growth product/venture within a fast-moving company (preferably fintech/financial services or commerce-adjacent).
- Excellent at working in ambiguity and figuring things out: you’re comfortable without a deep spec, you can set direction, test, learn, pivot.
- Strong strategic mindset: you can connect market trends, data signals and business models to identify high-leverage opportunities.
- Product intuition + business acumen: you can design compelling value propositions, understand monetisation, pricing, unit economics, competitive positioning.
- Stakeholder and team builder: you can pull together a founding team, influence senior leadership, communicate vision.
- A bias for experimentation: you’ve run user research, A/B tests, MVPs, prototypes, rapid learning cycles.
- Fluency in data: you define and track key metrics, draw insights, make decisions.
Nice to Have
- Experience in banking or merchant finance, marketplace or commerce ecosystems.
Benefits
- A high-visibility role with strategic mandate and autonomy.
- Access to Wayflyer’s platform, data, merchant ecosystem and capital.
- Opportunity to build from zero to scale – with potential to become the lead of the new business unit.
- Competitive compensation + equity participation.
- A high-calibre founding team + senior leadership support in an organisation committed to innovation.
- 25 days of paid annual leave, plus public holidays.
- Support and resources to support your wellbeing, including our Wellbeing @ Wayflyer ERG.
- Private healthcare, life insurance, and critical illness cover.
- Pension plan to help you build a strong foundation for tomorrow, starting today.
- Generous parental and adoptive leave program for both Primary and Secondary caregivers, ensuring you have the dedicated, fully paid time you need to focus on your family.
- Equity scheme, you're not just an employee; you're a stakeholder in our journey.
- Freedom to work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 60 calendar days a year.
Additional Information
- You’ll engage regularly with senior leadership and the core product, engineering and data teams.
- You’ll be based in London or Dublin (or remote in Europe) and will report into the VP Product.
- We’ll define a 90-day plan with clear milestones: problem definition, hypothesis testing, prototype validation.
- After the incubation stage (6-12 months) we’ll hold a “venture review” to decide next-stage scaling.
