Product Manager (Fintech)
Join a growing and profitable fintech in an instrumental role, where you will receive a lot of ownership from day 1. We hire for the right mindset and not only based on your past experiences.
Krea was founded in 2018 with the ambition to become the largest procurement platform for SME credit financing in Northern Europe. Since our inception, we have supported 25,000 small businesses in accessing approximately SEK 2.5 billion in financing. Krea is a founder-led company backed by Roosgruppen, ExM Invest, and a group of angel investors.
We are now seeking a driven Product Manager to ensure that we continue to offer the best available service to our customers.
About the Role
The primary purpose of the role is to identify, implement and monitor changes that improve the experience of customers, lead partners and lenders.
This usually entails working with a broad range of internal stakeholders, customers and lender representatives to find improvements and communicate a way forward. As well as being the primary point of contact between different parts of the business and developers.
Key Responsibilities
Research: Analyse customer and lender behaviour, pain points and opportunities through tools such as Hotjar and Tableau, user interviews, and analysis of quantitative metrics.
Ideation: Discover new features and identify potential bugs.
Prioritization: Prioritize product development (together with CPO and CTO) for the coming sprints (tri-weekly) and OKR cycle (quarterly)
Product development: Define requirements and create specifications for the developer team (e.g. in Figma). Work closely with the developer team to iron out obstacles and mitigate risk of misunderstandings.
Product releases: Own the release of new key features and ensure internal and external users are being educated about new features as needed. Monitoring of impact / KPIs in Tableau.
Communication: Help drive collaboration between developer team, marketing team, customer success and other relevant stakeholders.
On top of above and for suitable candidates you will be able to gradually take over responsibility of Krea’s usage of Tableau (or other BI tools) for data visualization across product, marketing and operations.
The Environment at Krea
In order to thrive at Krea you should want to be part of building the company. We expect you to take full ownership of your areas of responsibility, but you will also be supported by colleagues that have a lot of experience from the industry. In this role you will work closely with all teams, i.e. Tech, Commercial and Operations to ensure that you have a holistic understanding of what is important for our customers and lender partners.
We want you to be extremely candid and always speak up, without compromise. At Krea we believe that the group is far smarter than any individual, independent of age, race, gender or seniority. To ensure that the best ideas and solutions win, we oblige all team members to speak their mind and share opinions without compromise whenever they don’t agree. This is our strongest common value for people at the company.
Requirements:
Education: Minimum a bachelor’s degree (Master's degree is a plus) preferably in one of the following areas: Business and/or Engineering
Experience: 1-2 years of relevant experience e.g. Consumer Tech company, Venture Capital, high growth startups or management consulting
Interest: Interest in finance and fintech
Analytical mindset: You are comfortable with data and base your decisions on analysis.
Humble but clear visioned personality: You seek input and information to understand but you build your own opinions and are not afraid to get them questioned.
Oral and written proficiency in Swedish and English
Beneficial experience:
Development of digital services
Figma
Tableau or other BI tools
Mindset is more important than what you have done previously - you should be able to show that you have the drive and persistence required to build a company.
What we offer in this role:
Office in central Stockholm (Valhallavägen, close to KTH)
Vacation: 30 days / year
Healthcare allowance of 5 000 SEK
Pension benefit
Individuals in this role will receive a combination of salary and options (“kvalificerande personaloptioner”)
Recruitment process:
Recruitment tests
30 min video interview
2 hour in person interview with case
We will start interviewing from August 11.
Stockholm
Why work with us?
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Create value for thousands of entrepreneurs
Take part in developing a platform that nurtures enterprise growth by helping thousands of companies finding the best possible financing.
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Be a part of building something great
The company is still young and we have high ambitions for the future. For those who are ignited by the idea of creating and developing something lasting, now is the time to get onboard and apply to us.
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Develop through trust and responsibility
At Krea, you are delegated full authority to develop your area of responsibility and will continuously be encouraged to always take lead and perform actions you see fit.
A company culture built on
Candidness - always speak up, without compromise
We believe that the group is far smarter than any individual, independent of age, race, gender or seniority. To ensure that the best ideas and solutions win, we oblige all team members to speak their mind and share opinions without compromise whenever they don’t agree.
Proactiveness - be bold and lead the way
We believe that high caliber individuals thrive best in an environment of high autonomy. We expect each team member to lead the way by proactively and continuously suggesting and implementing new and bold ideas that support us in achieving our company vision.
Transparency - open communication about everything
We believe that trust is a key pillar in any efficient relationship and that transparency in turn is a key factor to establish trust. By being fully transparent we level the information imbalances in our relationships with customers, partners, employees and potential new recruits.
About Krea
Krea is Sweden’s largest independent financing service niched specifically on businesses. We have helped over 20 000 Swedish companies get access to the best possible terms by putting lenders’ offers in competition with each other. The service is digital and provides companies with the possibility to compare and apply for financing up to 100 million SEK without having to endure complicating processes.
Krea has evolved from being a leading loan comparison service into a full-fledged financing comparison service, including factoring, real estate loans and a comprehensive advisory service. The range of services enables customised solutions for each individual company and maximises the chances for an approved application.
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