Product Associate

• Join the mortgage team and play a critical role in making sure new lending products are launch-ready and operable at scale. • Work across Operations, Product, Engineering, Data Science, and commercial stakeholders so mortgage and lending products are fully supported across the customer journey from day one. • Operate in a fast-moving, highly regulated environment where products must work end-to-end from launch, technically and operationally. • Build a deep understanding of how products work in the real world, take responsibility early, and progress towards a Product Manager role.

• Be a top-tier STEM or Economics graduate, in a field such as computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or economics. • Bring 0–2 years of experience, including internships, placements, or early-career roles with real responsibility. • Show practical experience beyond academia, whether internships, startups, consulting projects, fintech, data, or operational roles. • Bring strong analytical skills and comfort working with data — Excel is a must, and Python or equivalent is a strong plus. • Solve problems in a structured way, breaking down messy, real-world situations. • Stay technically curious and comfortable working with systems, even without an engineering background. • Communicate clearly across both technical and non-technical teams.

• Bring Python or equivalent programming skills on top of strong Excel. • Have worked in fintech, lending, or another highly regulated environment. • Have hands-on experience with product operations, data analysis, or dashboard building. • Have exposure to APIs, decisioning flows, or data pipelines in practice.

• Work with Operations, Product, Data Science, and Engineering to ensure mortgage and lending products, features, and customer journeys are fully supported at launch and scalable as volumes grow. • Help define and document operational processes, edge cases, customer scenarios, and failure paths. • Make sure tooling, data visibility, and workflows let teams support customers effectively from day one. • Act as a key point of contact during launches and early post-launch periods, triaging and resolving live issues. • Support day-to-day product operations by investigating customer and partner issues, finding root causes, and working with engineering and product to fix them. • Analyse operational data to spot recurring problems and improvement opportunities, making sure issues are properly closed out rather than just discussed. • Support Product Managers with discovery, delivery coordination, partner onboarding, product testing, release validation, and regression checks. • Analyse product performance across conversion, approval rates, origination volumes, and credit outcomes, building dashboards and ad-hoc analyses and testing improvements from clear hypotheses.

Abound is one of the most exciting fintech stories in the UK right now. In just five years, the co-founders have built a profitable, fast-growing lending platform that was named the UK's number one fastest-growing tech company by The Sunday Times in 2026, with nearly 500% annual revenue growth. The company generated £69 million in revenue and £9 million in profit before tax in 2024, which is remarkable given that, among the top 15 high-growth UK companies tracked by Sifted, Abound was the only profitable one. They have secured £2.2 billion in lending capacity from Citi, Deutsche Bank, Waterfall, and others, and have been listed among the top 250 global fintechs by CNBC. What makes Abound especially interesting as a place to work is the leadership pedigree: Gerald Chappell was previously a Partner at McKinsey and EY, where he led digital lending and credit analytics solutions globally, while Dr Michelle He was a Director at EY with a PhD in machine learning. The broader leadership team brings experience from Goldman Sachs, Citi, Airbnb, and other major institutions. The UK Glassdoor entity sits at 4.6/5, with every single employee recommending it to a friend. What comes through in reviews is the flat structure, data-driven culture, quick career progression, and the chance to learn directly from seriously experienced leaders. Everyone gets equity ownership, a 30-day paid sabbatical after 4 years, a free WellHub membership, and plenty of team socials. A couple of things worth knowing: some Glassdoor reviews flag high targets and performance pressure, and Abound runs a hybrid model from its London offices rather than being fully remote. That said, if you want to be part of a profitable, rapidly scaling UK fintech where your work has a real impact on making credit fairer for millions of people, Abound is a brilliant place to do it.

• Own a piece of the company through equity. • Work hybrid, with 3 days a week in the office. • Take 25 days' holiday a year, plus 8 bank holidays. • Use 2 paid volunteering days each year. • Take a one-month paid sabbatical after 4 years. • Access an employee loan. • Enjoy free gym membership. • Tap a team wellness budget to be active together, whether that's a yoga class, a tennis lesson, or bouldering. • Follow a clear progression path to Junior Product Manager, based on impact and ownership rather than time served.

Abound is redefining consumer lending in the UK and beyond, using advanced AI and Open Banking data to make fair, affordable personal finance available to more people. Rather than relying on credit scores alone, it looks at each customer's full financial picture — how much they spend and what they can afford to repay. The approach works at scale: Abound has issued over £1.3bn in loans with market-leading credit performance, seeing three defaults for every ten the industry expects, and reached profitability just 2.5 years after launch. Backed by £2bn+ of funding from investors including Citi, GSR Ventures, and Deutsche Bank, it's recognised as one of Europe's fastest-growing fintechs and is now expanding into new markets and product lines.