Checkout.com is a fintech company whose payments platform enables over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. The Strategy & Operations team in the CEO Office helps Product and Engineering deliver the right work, at pace and with fewer surprises. As S&O Lead, the role owns Strategy & Operations work across a product pillar, is accountable alongside the product leader for delivery (without owning the roadmap), and leads and develops the S&O team in that pillar. The role is high-ownership and is not a product role, not a short-term consulting project, and not support to the product leader.
Responsibilities
Own execution across the product pillar; keep priorities, delivery tempo, progress, dependencies and risks visible; spot when plans are off track and bring a clear recommendation; be a trusted, independent partner to the product leader and challenge dates and trade-offs; personally lead the pillar's hardest cross-functional initiatives from team alignment through launch; build deep expertise in the pillar's products; recommend what to protect, re-sequence, move or stop; lead, hire, develop and manage the S&O team supporting the pillar; help shape practical standards adopted across S&O
Requirements
Strong problem solving and analytical skills; ability to frame ambiguous business questions, build analysis, test hypotheses, quantify trade-offs and turn findings into business decisions; ability to move between strategy, hands-on delivery and building the organisation; ability to make execution repeatable using practical operating mechanisms and data, automation or AI; ability to influence without relying on authority and challenge senior stakeholders constructively; ability to communicate complex issues clearly and bring people to decisions; ability to raise the performance of others through clear expectations, direct feedback and development; evidence of leadership (prior formal line-management experience is helpful)
Nice to have
Payments, fintech or regulated money-movement experience; experience working with licences, regulators, schemes or banking partners
Benefits
Hybrid working model with flexibility (three days per week in the office)
Wielka Brytania · London
