Strategy and Operations Lead, CEO Office

The role

You will own execution across a product pillar to ensure delivery, tempo, and risk visibility. You will lead cross-functional initiatives and manage an S&O team to help Product and Engineering deliver work.

What you will do

• Own execution across the pillar
• Keep priorities, delivery tempo, progress, dependencies and risks visible
• Build deep expertise in the pillar's products
• Challenge priorities and commitments with the product leader
• Lead the pillar's most important cross-functional initiatives
• Lead and develop the S&O team supporting the pillar
• Hire, develop and manage performance
• Set practical standards adopted across S&O

Required qualifications

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to frame ambiguous business questions and build analysis
• Ability to move between strategy, hands-on delivery and building the organisation
• Ability to build practical operating mechanisms using data, automation or AI
• Ability to influence without relying on authority
• Ability to challenge senior stakeholders constructively
• Ability to set clear expectations and give direct feedback

Nice to have

• Payments, fintech or regulated money-movement experience
• Experience working with licences, regulators, schemes or banking partners
• Prior formal line-management experience

About the company

Checkout.com is a fintech company that enables over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. They have 20 offices across six continents with London as their HQ.