Lead Data Product Manager

About Salary Finance

Working with employers, we provide a financial wellbeing platform as an employee benefit, helping employees to understand their money better, get out of debt faster and save for their future. We already have a reach of over 4,000,000 employees through our relationships with over 600 of the biggest companies in the UK. 

By improving employee financial wellbeing, we have a very real and meaningful impact on people’s lives. We remove the stress and worry associated with financial difficulties by dramatically reducing the interest rates employees pay on their personal debt, and provide them with the tools needed to start saving sooner and be more financially secure. We are backed by some of the biggest brands, including investments from Blenheim Chalcot (the UK’s leading venture builder), Legal and General (the FTSE 100 insurer and asset manager), Experian and Goldman Sacs, and funding partnerships with JP Morgan and Virgin Money. 

Launched in 2015, we have made excellent progress, and are scaling fast. We are named BITC’s Responsible Business of Year 2018, included in KPMG’s Global Fintech 100, listed top of the Forbes' list of socially-responsible startups, and profiled by the Financial Times, the Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Telegraph, CityAM and the Institute of Directors. 

Your role in our mission

We’re looking for an exceptional leader to be our Lead Data Product Manager. Reporting to the Head of Strategy and Data Product, you will play an instrumental role in transforming Salary Finance into a data-led business.

What you'll do

The current state of SF’s data landscape is:

• Data is not always reliable and readily available - which makes it harder than necessary to understand how we’re performing
• Our centralised BI team services data requests from the rest of the business, and is becoming a bottleneck as we grow
• Our Data Governance is not in great shape, which leads to inconsistency and confusion
• We don’t have the right visualisations and data assets in place to allow our colleagues to self-serve their data needs
• Our technology needs a refresh if we want to fulfil our ambition of becoming a data-led company

Our plan to address these challenges is to:

• Think of data as a product: our aim is to produce data products that add value for our SF colleagues and partners, and will ultimately enable a much higher level of self-service
• Move to a decentralised model with clear ownership of the data at source - aligned with where we create value as a business and where we deliver good outcomes for our customers
• Think Data Mesh (without getting too theoretical about it!)
• Drastically improve our Data Governance to give us better controls and insight into our data
• Iterate towards a new technology solution that can scale with our future needs

Your role will be crucial in our journey to achieve these outcomes:

• You’ll be our champion for embedding product thinking in the way that we do data at Salary Finance
• You will be leading our team of Data Product Analysts, helping to shape their roles and responsibilities and grow the team’s capability over time
• Ensuring that we’re driving continuous / iterative improvement in building out strategic data capabilities
• Keeping the data end user front and centre and ensuring that we deliver value for them
• Creating and maintaining a data roadmap for each data domain - engaging and aligning with key stakeholders along the way
• Maintaining high quality standards in the team’s coding, documentation and data visualisation work

About you

This is a primarily leadership role. On this front, we want you on our team if:

• You have experience of leading a team
• You have a growth mindset
• You know what good looks like in the data product world
• You are a strong communicator and you love working with and influencing a large number of stakeholders
• You don’t settle for half-baked - you set high standards and you’re always pushing for continuous improvement

You’ll also be doing some of the doing across a number of data domains - supporting team members to produce the best possible outcome. On this front, we want you on our team if:

• You know how to get to the bottom of a business requirement and you can develop a solution that is tailored to the end user
• You love analytical problems and have a knack for solving them
• You understand what good looks like in a modelled data set
• You know how to write excellent SQL code
• You love producing insightful and compelling data visualisations
• You can produce clear and concise documentation

This will not be an easy role - we’re looking for someone who is excited about the challenge of building a team and growing Salary Finance into a company with a world-class data capability.

Who you are

We embrace our differences, but there’s one thing we like to share, which is our values, so it’s important to us that you are:

• Fearless, and able to make the impossible possible.
• Responsible, and want to help build a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society.
• Dedicated and want to commit to an exciting journey even through the highs and lows.
• Empathetic and truly care about every colleague and customer.
• United, because you understand we achieve more when we work as a team.
• Humble, and take feedback as a way to continuously improve.

What do you get for all your hard work?

• Company bonus scheme 💰
• 25 days holiday with an extra day off on your birthday 🎂
• Office first with up to a day a week working from home 🏢 
• Generous company benefits to include pension and life assurance and an annual allowance to spend on medical insurance, health cash plan, denplan, gym memberships 🤸
• Enhanced policies that are family and pet friendly, to include company sick pay and peternity leave 🐶
• Great career development in a fast paced environment 🚀
• Regular company socials (post covid, although we've got quite good at virtual ones too!)
• Volunteer days as part of our CSR program 🤝

More great perks to include weekly snacks, tuckshop, cycle to work, help to save and much more! 🍭

The typical interview process

• Phone call with our Talent Manager - 20 mins
• Video interview with Hiring Manager - 30 mins 
• Case Study to give you a taster of the role - 35 mins 
• In person interview with Hiring Manager, Head of Department, Stakeholder, and / or Team -  60 mins 

We’re looking for people that will get stuck in and make a difference. We have a great collaborative, entrepreneurial team and are passionate about what we do. If you want to join a team that is changing people’s lives for the better then we’d love to hear from you.

Learn more at salaryfinance.com

Salary Finance is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where all employees and applicants can flourish.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.