Light Inc
Product Manager
London. Posted 2 days ago
The role
You will own the Lead to Cash product area, covering everything from a signed deal to cash in the bank: contracts, billing, revenue recognition, payments and credit control. You will set the roadmap with the VP of Product Development and work with finance teams, engineers and Sales to decide what gets built.
What you will do
- Own the Lead to Cash roadmap and its delivery, from discovery to go-live
- Turn contract terms, pricing models and revenue recognition rules into product requirements
- Decide which customer requests become product and which do not
- Lead discovery with finance teams through billing runs and month-end closes
- Work with Sales and Solutions Engineering on what is promised to customers
- Sequence delivery with Engineering and Design without cutting corners that matter in finance
- Own the integrations that feed Lead to Cash, such as CRMs and payment providers
- Spot releases going off-track early and escalate or intervene
- Enable Sales, SE, Implementation and Support to sell, set up and support each feature
- Shape how AI agents run billing and collections within policies finance teams set and can audit
Required qualifications
- Around 4 to 8 years in product, or equivalent experience
- Has shipped real product features that real users depend on
- Can read IFRS 15 or ASC 606, contracts and pricing sheets and turn them into product requirements
- Understands order-to-cash: contracts, billing schedules, deferred and recognised revenue, credit notes, dunning and cash matching
- Can say no to requests, explain why, and keep relationships intact
- Uses AI tooling in day-to-day work
- Owns discovery through direct customer conversations
- Has delivered through Product, Engineering, Design and Sales without formal authority over them
- Fluent English
Nice to have
- Accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or local equivalent
- Experience running billing or revenue operations
- Experience building billing, subscription or revenue recognition products
- Familiarity with Stripe, Chargebee, Zuora, HubSpot or Salesforce
- Experience in fintech or systems where data integrity is non-negotiable
- Experience with usage-based, tiered or hybrid pricing models
- Background in high-growth startups
- Familiarity with multi-currency, multi-entity billing and e-invoicing mandates
- Additional European languages
Benefits
- Competitive salary and potential stock options
- Generous paid annual leave plus UK public holidays
- Regular socials and two company offsites a year
- Career growth opportunity in a market-defining product
Before you apply
- Light is an equal opportunity employer
About the company
Light builds a Smart Financial Platform that replaces factory-era ERPs with automated accounting, real-time reporting and financial flows. It counts Lovable, Legora and Keyshot among its customers.