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Chief Placeholder Officer

  • London
  • Full Time (Permanent)
  • Hybrid
  • Placeholder team
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About this role

Suspense thrives on uncertainty, a calculated pause that draws in the observer. In this pause, placeholders emerge as valuable cues. Their very presence suggests that what is yet unseen could hold the answers, a revelation or a solution. When used thoughtfully, a placeholder can tease and compel, engaging the imagination.

Responsibilities

In websites, a loading spinner is no different than the ellipsis of a suspenseful plot twist; it tells the viewer that what is coming is worth waiting for. Key benefits of effective placeholders include:

  • Maintaining engagement: By signaling more to come, placeholders prevent user drop-off.
  • Setting expectations: Clear, well-placed placeholders hint at what content is coming next, adding structure.
  • Building suspense: The anticipation of more content holds attention, just as in storytelling.

Placeholder content, however, must tread a careful line. Too sparse, and it risks undermining its own suspense; too dense, and it overwhelms with unnecessary clutter. The balance lies in leaving just enough room for the mind to wander and fill the gaps.

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Associate Product Manager

  • London, UK
  • Full Time (Permanent)
  • Hybrid
  • Auto UK Product
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The role in a nutshell

We're looking for a curious, ambitious and data-driven Associate Product Manager (APM) to join our product team in UK Motor Finance and help shape the future of fintech. You'll work across our motor product - from onboarding new customers through to supporting them over the life of their agreement.

This is a role for someone early in their product career who wants to move fast and learn a lot. You'll own real problems from day one, with the support of an experienced product team around you.

APMs at Lendable take day-to-day ownership of their area and work closely with teams such as Engineering, Credit, Growth and Operations. It's your job to break complex problems into bite-sized deliverables and prioritise the work with the biggest impact. You'll be comfortable getting into the details, while keeping an eye on the bigger picture.

Experience:

  • A bias for action, you move fast, get things done, and iterate quickly based on feedback

  • 1+ years of experience as a Product Manager or in an adjacent role

  • Data proficiency, you're comfortable using SQL or Python to query data and run your own analysis

  • Familiarity with AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex

  • Bonus: experience in a start-up or scale-up environment

What you'll be doing:

  • Helping drive the growth of our motor finance product - improving conversion and the customer experience across web and app

  • Contributing to the product roadmap and working with an industry-leading Engineering team to deliver it

  • Collaborating with teams across the business, including other Product Managers, Engineering, Credit, Data Science, Finance and Operations

  • Championing data-driven decisions - designing hypothesis-driven tests, measuring outcomes, and iterating quickly based on what you learn

  • Using AI to build tools, automate manual workflows, and help your team make faster, better decisions

  • Getting to grips with a fast-paced fintech landscape, balancing innovation with compliance and risk

  • Partnering with design to keep our customers' needs at the heart of what we build

How you'll contribute to the Product Team's objectives:

  • Autonomy - you're comfortable taking ownership of your area and being accountable for delivery and customer impact. With support, you can run standups and planning sessions with your engineering team, and you proactively flag and help resolve anything blocking progress.

  • Problem solving - you can break complex business problems into bite-sized chunks.

  • Analysis - you're comfortable using SQL or Python to dig into the data and turn it into real-world actions.

  • Working at speed - you make things happen. You're not afraid to roll up your sleeves and take responsibility. You work at pace and enjoy a healthy dose of pressure.

  • Communication - you communicate clearly and succinctly, in writing and out loud, and adjust your style to suit your audience, from business owners to engineers. You don't have a big ego and you're happy to change your mind when presented with a good argument.

  • Collaboration - you build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business, so you can work together effectively to deliver.

  • Process - you understand (or are keen to learn) the software development lifecycle and how Product supports each stage.

  • Agility - not just Agile, but the adaptability to thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving, high-growth environment.

Why join us?

  • Work on high-impact products that redefine financial access and empower customers.

  • Learn fast alongside an experienced product team with a track record of building category-defining fintech.

  • A culture of ownership, speed, and continuous learning.

Interview process

  • A quick intro call with someone from the Talent or Product team

  • A take-home exercise to complete in your own time, plus a debrief (via video)

  • Final round: MD interview, Head of Product / Group PM interview, CPO interview

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About Lendable

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Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money.

  • Founded in 2014

  • Profitable since 2017

  • Unicorn in 2021

  • Backed by Balderton, Goldman Sachs and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

  • Loved by customers & employees with top reviews on Glassdoor and Trustpilot

So far, we’ve rebuilt the big three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do. We’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.

Life at Lendable

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  • The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies

  • Best-in-class compensation, including equity

  • You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas

  • Our in-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday

  • We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance

  • We're an equal opportunity employer and are keen to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London

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