Head of Product & Engineering Operations

About this role

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 As our Head of Product & Engineering Operations, you will design, install, and run the engine across product, engineering, and design.

You will help us find a better way by transforming our work into one unified, high-performing build process. This role owns the ‘how’ we build. You install the operating model across product, engineering and design, and drive product, design and engineering leaders to run it. You have real influence with the CTO down. You’ll work closely with product, engineering and design teams, and make the operating model work in practice.

You’ll be the executive operator on the AI-native lifecycle programme already in motion, turning it from an initiative into the default way our teams build. You know what great looks like because you’ve done it. You could build the product, but would prefer to build the team who build the product. What you'll actually do: Establish and run core builders leadership rituals, cross-line product reviews, calibration sessions, and go/no-go release gates.

Partner directly with stakeholders across all three disciplines, such as our VP Product, VP Engineering, and Design Leadership, to raise the bar on what and how we build. Take small steps fast through hands-on piloting of new frameworks, running early iterations personally before handing them off to squad leads and ensuring they become permanent habits. Embed AI-driven build tools and automated workflows across all three functions to modernise our Product development lifecycle and processes.