Responsibilities
- Own the operating model for the full product organisation: planning cadences, roadmap governance, OKR cycles, and the rituals that keep a distributed, senior team aligned without drowning them in process
- Define how Primer measures product performance across the portfolio — build the instrumentation, the dashboards, and the feedback loops that give leadership clarity on what is shipping, what is slipping, and what it means for the business
- Set the strategy and direction for product tooling: what the team uses, how it integrates, and how it evolves as the company scales from Series C to a much larger organisation
- Lead go-to-market readiness across the product function — coordinating across Product, Engineering, Commercial, and Marketing to ensure launches land with the right preparation and the right people informed
- Identify and resolve systemic friction across the product org, not one-off fixes but durable structural changes that remove the same class of problem from recurring
- Build the knowledge infrastructure for the product function: documentation standards, onboarding, decision records, and shared frameworks that mean institutional knowledge survives people leaving and scales with hiring
- Act as a strategic partner to Theo, owning the operational detail and the cross-functional coordination that lets him stay focused on product direction
Requirements
- Substantial experience in a senior Product Operations, Chief of Staff, or equivalent role inside a B2B technology company — you have built or significantly rebuilt a product operating model before
- Genuine analytical capability: you can work directly with data, build dashboards, and turn numbers into clear narratives without depending on a data team to do it for you
- Track record of creating systems and processes that people actually adopt and maintain over time — you know the difference between documentation and infrastructure
- Comfortable operating across Product, Engineering, and GTM without a clear lane — you influence through the quality of your thinking and the usefulness of what you build
- Multi-quarter strategic thinking: you can hold the big picture of how the product function should operate in eighteen months while executing in the present
- Highly autonomous in ambiguous environments — you do not need the problem to be fully defined before you start making progress on it
Nice to Have
- Nice to have: experience in payments, fintech, or developer-facing infrastructure products
Benefits
- We are fully remote and globally distributed; and have been since day one
- Competitive share options
- Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
- Co-working space access across major cities
- Workations & Company Retreat
- The best equipment for your role
- £500 towards your home office setup
- Generous learning budget
- Private Medical Insurance
- A broad set of additional perks and benefits (depending on location)
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
A typical interview process
- An initial intro call with a Talent Partner
- An interview with the Hiring Manager
- Challenge Stage - Contextualised to the role
- A final, values-alignment interview
What's the culture like at Primer?
- We're building a culture where people can do their best work and be proud of the impact they have. You'll be working with people who are mission-driven, smart, and reflective, and who are genuinely invested in building exceptional products and delivering success for our merchants.
- We work remotely, and have done since day one. We believe that building a successful, profitable company goes beyond proximity. We invest in our relationships through great remote working practices and thoughtfully designed face-to-face time, including workations, our annual company retreat, and access to co-working spaces across most major cities.
- The work is challenging. Scaleups are a challenge, and building category-defining products is a challenge. But there's a meaningful difference between a challenge and a struggle. At Primer, the right challenge comes with the right support: strong onboarding, a collaborative environment, and a team that is genuinely invested in your success. It's never something you face alone.