Principal, CEO Office

The role

You will own high-priority cross-functional initiatives from problem framing to implementation. You will support the CEO and Head of the CEO Office on strategic and operational problems through coordinated execution and measurable outcomes.

What you will do

• Support the CEO and Head of the CEO Office on critical cross-functional initiatives
• Coordinate day-to-day delivery, stakeholder collaboration and progress towards measurable outcomes
• Investigate complex, ambiguous problems by developing practical solutions and supporting implementation
• Support departments in scaling through organisation design, objectives and KPI setting
• Assist leadership in navigating ambiguity by surfacing insights, decisions and risks
• Coordinate follow-through and support alignment across teams
• Work on projects including organisational model design, international expansion, and strategic planning
• Support board and shareholder reporting

Required qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced, high-performance environment
• Background in consulting, high-growth technology, investing, investment banking, strategic finance or entrepreneurial operations
• Use first-principles thinking, data and judgement to structure ambiguous problems
• Turn analysis into practical plans, KPIs, processes, tools or systems
• Personally own cross-functional work and deliver measurable outcomes
• Build trust and make progress across functions without formal authority
• Learn quickly and respond well to feedback
• Show evidence of creating, launching or materially improving something from scratch

Nice to have

• Payments or fintech exposure
• International experience
• Advanced SQL or hands-on data analysis
• Experience building low-code/no-code or AI automations
• Founding or entrepreneurial experience

About the company

Checkout.com enables over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. The company has 20 offices across six continents with London as its HQ.