{"id":91447,"url":"https://alion.io/job/light-product-manager","title":"Product Manager","company":{"id":7310,"name":"Light","domain":"light.co","url":"https://alion.io/company/light","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":78000,"max_usd":185000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":198},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-06-25T06:58:03Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-06-25","last_verified_at":"2026-10-17T03:07:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":113,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":113},"description":"Retire the ERP.\n\nLight exists to replace factory-era ERPs with software that feels alive. Our Smart Financial Platform gives modern, global companies superpowers-automated accounting, real-time reporting, and financial flows that move at the speed of the business.\nWe build with our customers, ship fast, and obsess over craft. In a short time, Light has gone from idea to the operating core for leading companies like Lovable, Legora, and Keyshot. People don’t just use Light-they enjoy it.\nWe’re an early team defining a new software category. Think engineers who love debits and credits, designers who care about reconciliation states, and operators who treat finance as a product. If you’re excited to modernize how the world runs money-one workflow at a time-you’re in the right place.\nBacked by world-class investors and advised by industry titans, we’re building category-defining products with the freedom to ship ambitiously and own outcomes.\nCome help us make Light the global default for next-gen finance.\nThe Product Manager role\nOwning the delivery of product strategy and execution for a core area of Light from 0→1 to scale.\nTurning complex financial workflows into intuitive, AI-powered experiences.\nPartnering with Engineering, Design and Data to ship beautiful, high-impact products fast.\nTranslating ambiguity into structure: defining clear priorities, metrics, and direction in alignment with engineering and go-to-market teams (Customer Success & Sales)\nWorking directly with CFOs, controllers, and finance teams to uncover users insights and shape new automation.\nMaking crisp, high-quality decisions to deliver promptly and effectively: balancing velocity, precision, and impact.\nYou’ll thrive here if you…\nYou move fast, think deeply, and take ownership.\nYou have a founder’s mindset - equally comfortable with spreadsheets, sketches, or specs.\nYou thrive in structured chaos and get energy from solving hard problems.\nYou want to build a category-defining product with people who expect excellence.\nYour qualifications:\nMulti-disciplinary experience broadly in product development: either product, engineering or design in a high-growth SaaS and AI startup companies\n\nAbility to translate product vision and customer requirements into supportive guidance & direction for engineering teams\n\nInfluential experience in stakeholder engagement and communication at leadership and delivery team level\n\nPractical experience using AI or emerging technology tools to improve productivity, insight, or decision-making, with the ability to apply first-principles thinking to new problems\n\nYour traits\nExceptionally structured thinking - you cut through complexity fast\n\nStrong analytical instincts; you think in systems and numbers\n\nClear communication and crisp written thinking\n\nBias for action: you’d rather test than theorise\n\nCuriosity about how finance, automation, and AI intersect\n\nBonus points\nExperience in B2B fintech, accounting, or payments\n\nExposure to automation, data-heavy products, or ML-powered workflows\n\nWorking cross-functionally in small, high-output teams\n\nTechnical fluency - you can talk APIs and workflows with engineers\n\nOperating or founding at an early-stage startup\n\nManagement consulting (MBB or equivalent)\n\nWhat success looks like in your first 6-12 months\nA sharp, insight-driven roadmap aligned with Light’s mission.\nKey features shipped that simplify and speed up finance operations.\nMetrics-driven decision-making embedded in your product area.\nEngineering and Design teams love working with you because things move.\nYou’re known as a force multiplier - adding clarity, speed, and structure everywhere you go.\n\nTips to stand out\nShow how you’ve created clarity or structure from scratch.\n\nShare examples of real outcomes - not just shipped features.\n\nWalk us through your decision frameworks and tradeoffs.\n\nQuantify your impact - adoption, growth, efficiency, or time saved.\n\nThe good stuff\nIn addition to being part of a great team and working in a really fun and innovative environment, we offer:\nCompetitive salary + potential stock options\n25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the UK\nRegular socials and company Starsite offsites\nA huge opportunity for career growth as you will help shape a market-defining product\n\nThe famous last words\nWorking at Light means you are embarking on an exciting journey to reshape the future of multinational financial operations. Our cheat-code is that we have built something like this before and are now doing it again, only better. Our goal is to make global finance effortless and empower companies to make informed decisions.\nJoin the rocket ship while it is taking off","description_format":"text","description_chars":4673,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Autonomous Driving","Computer Vision","Machine Vision & 3D Cameras"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-06-25T06:58:03Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":27,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.61,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":112,"expected_fill_days":98,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/light-product-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/light-product-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T03:27:22Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4466,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":7310},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=7310"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Flight-product-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Flight-product-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Flight-product-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/light-product-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Flight-product-manager"}]}