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This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced fintech environment, enjoys problem-solving, and is eager to make an impact. You will have real autonomy to define your own roadmap.\nKey Responsibilities\nWhat you'll be doing:\nIdentifying, prioritising and driving high-value growth opportunities across partners, products and markets.\nOwning performance deep-dives for strategic partners and turning the findings into action.\nBuilding business cases for new product, market and partner initiatives.\nStructuring commercial proposals, pilots and partner growth plans. \nBuilding the operating rhythms, tools and processes that help YouLend scale.\nWorking across Partnerships, Product, Risk, Data, Operations and Capital Markets to get things done.\nExample problems:\nYouLend is considering a major new product, market or partner investment. How big could it be, what would need to be true for it to work, and should we go after it? \nA pricing, risk or eligibility change could unlock significant growth, but could also create downside risk if we get it wrong. How do we size the opportunity, make the trade-offs clear and drive the decision? \nOne of our largest global partnerships isn’t growing as fast as we want. 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