Our mission
At kennek, we’re on a mission to modernise the $2 trillion private lending industry.

We’re determined to help lenders digitise their business and automate their operations with the lending toolkit of the future: a vertical SaaS for all types of lenders. By doing so, we revolutionise the sector at its core and we create efficiencies for lenders and also for borrowers, credit investors and ultimately for the entire ecosystem.

We launched in the summer of 2021 and have since grown our team to over 25 kennekters, mostly in London. Our customer base is expanding rapidly and we’ve got some world-class venture capital investors backing us.

Background
For the past decades, increasing regulatory pressures on banks have reduced their lending to the real economy, especially to small & medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

Many ‘non-bank lenders’ such as peer to peer platforms, specialist lending companies and credit funds have filled the void. However, most of these lenders operate in an old-fashioned way. Data is not connected or centralised. Workflows are manual and usually time-consuming, costly and prone to human error.

This is where kennek comes in.

We’ve created a vertically integrated SaaS that streamlines and automates operations of lenders, bringing together all the lending calculations, operations and workflows onto a single user-friendly platform.

The kennek system captures all the data relating to the loans and borrowers and serves as a single point of truth for the lenders and ultimately for the entire ecosystem.

What The Job Involves

• Be responsible for goal and objective setting through OKRs and measuring the impact of the changes you make
• Day-to-day ownership of an engineering Pod, ensuring features and bugs are shipped on time
• Working closely with two other PMs to prioritise projects, breaking them down into quarterly initiatives and shaping the product roadmap for maximum business impact
• Closely partnering with software engineers to simplify complex tasks into bite-sized deliverables
• Understanding the customer to identify the problem/opportunity landscape and develop the product to solve user needs
• Taking ownership of discovery and new product ideas from inception through to delivery
• Interact and communicate with cross-functional stakeholders to understand and prioritise their needs to meet the short and long-term goals of the business
• Together with the PMs and Tech Leads, ensure your Pod is continually improving its ways of working

Who You Are

• Highly motivated and intelligent self-starter, looking to advance your career in a high-growth environment
• You are a great communicator and storyteller, able to present ideas and concepts to stakeholders at all levels
• Driven to get stuff done, but with a collaborative approach
• You are able to influence decision-making in a variety of contexts
• Able to learn quickly and digest information from multiple sources
• You practice and advocate for data and customer-led product design and development
• Strive for continuous optimisation in product launches and team development
• Humble, and take feedback as a way to constantly improve

Your Experience

• 3+ years working in Product with a focus on building products in a SaaS/start-up environment
• 2+ years in financial services, strategy, consulting or other dynamic and fast-paced environments
• Previous experience in lending / financial services products
• Knowledge of agile through hands-on experience or studying the fundamentals of agile methodologies used
• Understanding of customer research and the importance of incorporating customer feedback and data into the product build lifecycle
• Analytical fluency [SQL, Python] is a plus

We recognise that candidates feel they need to meet 100% of the job criteria to apply. Please note that this is only a guide. If you think you have what it takes but don't meet every single point above, please still get in touch. We'd love to chat and see if you could be a great fit.

Company Benefits

• Hybrid work policy
• 25 days' holiday (with bank holidays on top)
• Modern and centrally located office in London
• Private health insurance with AXA, including dental & optical cover
• Enhanced company sick pay
• Immediate enrolment to our pension plan upon joining
• We’re still deciding our full benefits package and we’re looking forward to working with our early employees to figure out what matters the most

Company Values

• Relentless & Resilient - we are self-motivated, working with ferocity to deliver results.
• Courageous & Brave - we inspire each other to do and say the hard things.
• Genuine team players - we care about each other and we champion the success of others.
• Humour - we take the work seriously but not ourselves.

We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If there’s anything we can do to better support you through the application process, please let us know.