About this Principal Product Manager role at Funding Circle
We’re on a mission to back the UK’s small businesses like no one else 🚀
Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we’re here to help them win. We’ve built a platform that uses clever data to get them the funding they need in minutes, not weeks.
At Funding Circle, we have the restless energy of a fintech start-up with the stability of a public company. It’s a unique mix that gives Circlers the autonomy to take ownership and the scale to make an impact that truly counts.
We’re a high-performing team that chooses to lift each other up. We challenge, we champion, and we have each other’s backs - because we know that when we stand together, we move faster and build better.
The impact is real: Last year alone, the businesses on our platform generated £7.2bn for the UK economy 📈 Come and join a mission that matters!
[Read our Impact Report] | [See our Trustpilot]
The role ⚡
📍 London (Hybrid) | 🤝 3 days in the office | 💰 Competitive Salary + Benefits
We've grown from a single loans product into a multi-product lending and spending platform, and every product on it runs on the same handful of shared capabilities: the customer data we hold, the interactions with third parties like credit agencies & open banking, identity and access that keeps it all secure, CRM that keeps our customer facing teams running, and the engineering platform everything is built with. Get those right and all the other teams are faster, happier and more productive!
This role is the Principal PM leading this platform. This role reports into our Head of Engineering for Platform Capabilities, as the Product Lead across our platform capabilities.
Really understanding our internal customers like Risk, Operations, Sales and other Engineering teams; not just other Product teams. They have competing priorities and don't always neatly align. Working out what to build means understanding several functions properly, seeing where they're going, and making the call for the future of Funding Circle
Set the strategy and roadmap for the platform capabilities the rest of the company builds on. Identity and access, the services that tell every team who a customer is and the engineering platform that makes our products tick
Owning migrations and deciding when this option makes sense, and when it does committing and getting teams off the old version of something and onto the new one. This is often where platform work succeeds or fails
Partner with Architecture, Product Engineering and with the Product leads on Loans, FlexiPay and Cards, so your roadmap and theirs are one aligned conversation
Large focus on regular discovery with other functions, on the change management that gets them to adopt, and on deciding what to build next
Success in this role will be measured on whether the teams using these capabilities ship faster, whether they can solve their own problems without coming to you, and whether the migrations you start actually finish
What we’re looking for 🌱
Experience owning something other teams depended on by earning their adoption; not mandating it
Enough technical depth for a straight conversation with Engineers about trade-offs, interfaces, and what a migration will cost, without losing sight of when to hand off technical decisions to them
You can hold your own with Risk, Operations or Sales, with no authority over any of them. You go and find their next problem. You don't wait for a ticket
Considered as AI-native, having built with Claude Code or Codex or similar, and you bring that into how you and your team design and build to support and not replace the core disciplines and values of good product management
Ability to write and present clearly enough to get Architecture, Engineering, and Product leadership behind the same roadmap
Skills we’d love to see:
Experience working in fintech, or another regulated business with operational complexity
Experiecne running a migration off a system people were attached to, and lived to tell the tale
Strong understanding of the complexities of a regulated business and treat auditability and data protection as design constraints, not a review at the end
We’re building a place where everyone truly feels they belong. Even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you.
Why join us? 💜
We back you to build an incredible career and by joining us, you'll be part of one of The Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For 2026! As a flexible-first employer, we use a "best of both" approach. We’ll see you in our London office to collaborate – with barista coffee and subsidised Just Eat lunches on us!
Our Circler Proposition focuses on five areas:
Flexibility: We provide a benefit allowance you can tailor to your own life and family.
Health: This includes private medical and dental, health assessments, and access to a digital GP.
Wealth: We offer life assurance, share schemes, and financial coaching.
Development: You get a dedicated annual learning allowance to help you level up.
Lifestyle: We have electric car and cycle-to-work schemes, plus season ticket loans.
We also have award-winning parental leave policies. We're here to support you through the big life moments, from fertility treatments to new additions to the family.
