The Digital Recruitment Company
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Chief Product Officer
Location: London, hybrid
Job type: Permanent
Salary: £175,000–£250,000 base, plus bonus, benefits, and wider package
DRC Search is working with a payments fintech seeking a Chief Product Officer who combines commercial product leadership with a strong grounding in software engineering. This is an opportunity to shape the product strategy while working closely with engineering on the systems and technical decisions that make payments products reliable, scalable, and valuable to customers.
We are particularly interested in leaders who have worked as software engineers or held substantial hands-on technical roles earlier in their careers. You will be comfortable going deep with engineering teams, then translating technical choices into clear priorities for customers and the wider business.
The opportunity
You will own the product vision and roadmap, connecting customer needs and commercial opportunities with what the technology can deliver. You will partner closely with engineering leadership on platform capabilities, architecture, integrations, technical debt, and delivery trade-offs.
In payments, product decisions have real technical consequences. Transaction flows, uptime, security, reconciliation, and integrations all shape the customer experience. You will bring the technical judgement to ask the right questions and the product leadership to decide where the business should invest.
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What you’ll do
- Set the product strategy and turn it into clear priorities, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
- Lead and develop the product function, building a team that works closely and effectively with engineering.
- Partner with engineering leaders on technical strategy, platform investment, scalability, and delivery.
- Assess product opportunities with a practical understanding of software architecture, APIs, integrations, and the engineering effort involved.
- Work directly with customers and partners to understand their workflows, pain points, and technical requirements.
- Collaborate with commercial, risk, compliance, and operations teams to launch products that customers can adopt and use with confidence.
- Use product data, customer feedback, and commercial performance to guide decisions and improve existing products.
- Represent product at the executive level, explaining technical trade-offs and securing alignment on investment priorities.
What we’re looking for
- Senior product leadership experience in payments, fintech, or closely related financial technology.
- A background in software engineering, or substantial hands-on experience designing and delivering software products before moving into product leadership.
- Strong technical understanding of software architecture, APIs, integrations, data flows, and the challenges of building dependable systems at scale.
- The ability to engage credibly with engineers on implementation choices, constraints, and technical debt without losing sight of customer and commercial outcomes.
- A track record of taking complex products from strategy through development, launch, adoption, and growth.
- Experience leading product managers and working across engineering, design, commercial, and regulated functions.
- Sound judgement when balancing speed of delivery with reliability, security, and long-term platform health.
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If you are a passionate and experienced product leader ready to make a significant impact on a growing company, we encourage you to apply. We’re excited to hear how your expertise can help us achieve our ambitious goals.
Apply below and Mags will be in touch to discuss the role further.
The Digital Recruitment Company is an Employment Business for interim, contract, and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.
To apply for this role, please contact:
Rosie Whelan
📞 0203 640 2133
📧 rosie@drc-search.com
🌐 www.drcsearch.com
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