Product Manager – Loan Payment & Agreement Platform

Product Manager – Loan Payment & Agreement Platform

🌏 London, Manchester, Oxford (Hybrid 2-3 days per week in office)

💰 £55,000 to £65,000

💷 Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme

⏰37.5 hours per week

💖 Our perks

• 🌏25 days holiday plus bank holidays and the ability to accrue up to 3 extra days for service, to take time to recharge and do something you love.
• 🤸 Hybrid working – you’ll be able to split your time between working in the office and at home.
• ⭐Mental health care – 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme).
• 🤧Paid sick leave – enhanced sick pay of up to 20 full days in a rolling 12-month period.
• 👨‍Enhanced family leave – we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
• 🤒Healthcare plan – free healthcare via Vitality for you and your family. You’ll receive money back on health appointments e.g., dental, optical, and more.
• 👍Pension – Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future.
• 🥝Free breakfast, drinks, and fruit in the office – you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit.
• 🤟Employee discounts – discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops.
• 👌1 volunteer day per year – an opportunity to give back to the community each year.

🚗 Oodle – who are we? 🚗

Our mission is to be the UK’s simplest way to find and finance a great value used car. We want to put car buyers back in control and make the car buying experience as simple, straightforward, and joyful as possible as car buyers deserve oodles of car buying confidence!

We are a team of 450 people located in Manchester, Oxford and London. Over the past 6 years, we’ve supported 100,000’s of customers on their car buying journey and achieved 4.7* Trustpilot score.

We’re a fast-paced technology business who are already disrupting the car market and have a really exciting roadmap for 2024! 

🙌 The Role

Product Manager - Loan Payment & Agreement Platform at Oodle Car Finance.

You’ll be joining Oodle's product team and contributing to developing our cutting-edge proprietary ledger system, Oobook. Oobook is responsible for collecting direct debits and tracking the customers’ payments, accounting for Oodle’s portfolio and reporting to credit reference agencies amongst a host of other things.

This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of our business. You will work on a critical component that drives our success, from funding new agreements to handling in-life changes. Your efforts will significantly impact the organization and the stakeholders you work with, including operations, finance, and executive leadership.

🤹Product Team

The Product Team is at the heart of our mission to put car buyers back in control. Our product development is driven from strategy as we focus on delivering great customer and business outcomes. Our team includes members who have previously built B2C & B2B digital ventures for FinTech’s, start-ups, scale ups and established banks in the UK and abroad.

This role is a great opportunity to advance your career in the world of Product. Your day-to-day work will be a mixture of longer-term strategic problems and working on solving immediate problems at pace, which may include:

• Working closely with Head of Product to develop the strategy for your area, in line with business objectives.
• Working with software engineers, data scientists and data engineers to translate product strategy and business requirements into technical deliverables.
• Owning and prioritising a backlog, collecting customer insights and using data to identify the most valuable features to work on next.
• Working with stakeholders to run discovery on new features and acting as product owner, with the engineering team, to get them designed, refined and delivered. Monitoring the outcomes and identifying opportunities to iterate and improve.
• Modelling the impact of potential and recently launched features on customers satisfaction and financial outcomes.
• Reporting on product development progress and achieved outcomes to Product team’s leadership.
• Collaborating with internal and external business operators to create solutions that drive key metrics.

😀 About you

• 2-5 years product management experience (or equivalent): this isn’t your first product job and you’re keen to grow by learning from an experienced team. Ideally you have worked in a startup or scale-up environment.
• Experience working in agile product teams: you know your stand ups from your retros and how to deliver results.
• Ruthless prioritisation skills: you know how to decide what to do next and aren’t afraid to make tough decisions. You understand trade-offs between competing priorities and understand how to strategically and tactically manage a backlog to get the most out of your team.
• A communication chameleon: excellent written and verbal communication. You are equally happy talking tickets with engineers, customer problems with the operations team or reporting upwards to senior stakeholders.
• Problem solving and analytical skills: you can quickly understand new problems, identify key drivers behind specific outcomes and can find a simple path through complexity. You are data-driven and understand the importance of our key metrics to our team’s success.
• Interpersonal skills: you are humble, you quickly build trust and personal relationships within and outside your team. You know when to seek consensus or escalate a decision depending on a situation.

This role is perfect for you if you have the following too:

- Experience querying databases with SQL (Snowflake, Postgres)

- Experience writing scripts using Python

- Experience working on technical and/or financial products

- Worked with payment providers

This role is based in our offices in London, Oxford or Manchester. We are working flexibly, combining in-person workshops and design sessions with remote work. Occasional travel to our offices in London, Oxford and Manchester may be required (travel expenses paid when travelling to an office which isn’t your contracted base).

👩‍💻 Hiring Process

• ☎️ Initial screening (30 mins)
• 💻 Online Test (up to 1 hour)
• 🔦 Interview round (up to 1 hour)

💚 Our Values

Our values are our personal brand and lay the foundation of what we care about the most. They provide us with guidance, so we can work towards the same goals. They are our DNA and are kept at the forefront of our Oodler’s mind when making business decisions.

• Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger.
• Strive for awesome – it’s awesome when we do better every day.
• Everyone’s a builder – we’re in this together and we win as a team.
• Bravely honest – we’re honest with ourselves and everyone else.
• Think customer – they’re at the heart of everything we do.

To find out more about our culture and what happens at Oodle check out our LinkedIn and Instagram. 

Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our ‘Oodlers’ who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures.

We’d love if you could submit your application online, but if you need an alternative method or need reasonable adjustments to take part in the interview process, please email [email protected]