An Introduction to Primer
Primer is the world's first unified payment infrastructure, founded by former leaders of Braintree and PayPal. We unify fragmented payment and finance systems into a single, intelligent platform, automating the entire payments lifecycle from acceptance and orchestration to reconciliation, FX, and financial operations.
Trusted by leading merchants worldwide, we give finance, payments, and engineering teams the tools to move faster, reduce complexity, and unlock growth. Our open, modular platform connects to 150+ services across the payments ecosystem, while our expanding CFO product suite brings unified reconciliation, FX management, and financial visibility across markets and currencies.
Backed by Accel, Balderton, ICONIQ, and Tencent, we're setting a new standard for how the world moves money.
What will you be doing?
- Own the operating model for the full product organisation: planning cadences, roadmap governance, OKR cycles, and the rituals that keep a distributed, senior team aligned without drowning them in process
- Define how Primer measures product performance across the portfolio — build the instrumentation, the dashboards, and the feedback loops that give leadership clarity on what is shipping, what is slipping, and what it means for the business
- Set the strategy and direction for product tooling: what the team uses, how it integrates, and how it evolves as the company scales from Series C to a much larger organisation
- Lead go-to-market readiness across the product function — coordinating across Product, Engineering, Commercial, and Marketing to ensure launches land with the right preparation and the right people informed
- Identify and resolve systemic friction across the product org, not one-off fixes but durable structural changes that remove the same class of problem from recurring
- Build the knowledge infrastructure for the product function: documentation standards, onboarding, decision records, and shared frameworks that mean institutional knowledge survives people leaving and scales with hiring
- Act as a strategic partner to Theo, owning the operational detail and the cross-functional coordination that lets him stay focused on product direction
What we're looking for
- Substantial experience in a senior Product Operations, Chief of Staff, or equivalent role inside a B2B technology company — you have built or significantly rebuilt a product operating model before
- Genuine analytical capability: you can work directly with data, build dashboards, and turn numbers into clear narratives without depending on a data team to do it for you
- Track record of creating systems and processes that people actually adopt and maintain over time — you know the difference between documentation and infrastructure
- Comfortable operating across Product, Engineering, and GTM without a clear lane — you influence through the quality of your thinking and the usefulness of what you build
- Multi-quarter strategic thinking: you can hold the big picture of how the product function should operate in eighteen months while executing in the present
- Highly autonomous in ambiguous environments — you do not need the problem to be fully defined before you start making progress on it
- Nice to have: experience in payments, fintech, or developer-facing infrastructure products
You may not like it here
- Primer is remote-first and always will be. You will not create influence by being visible in an office — you will create it by the quality of what you ship
- The product roadmap moves and priorities shift. Part of your job is to create stability for others. That only works if you personally do not need stability to operate — ambiguity has to be fuel, not friction
- Senior people here will challenge what you build. If you need your systems adopted by consensus and positive reinforcement, you will find this environment frustrating. Expect scrutiny, expect direct feedback, and expect to earn adoption by demonstrating value
✅ Our interview process
- 30 minute call with a Talent Partner
- 60 minute interview with an Engineering Manager
- 90 minute coding interview in Python
- 90 minute system design interview
- 60 minute final stage values-alignment interview
What’s the culture like at Primer?
We’ve been recognised as a top global employer, #1 in FinTech for ‘flexibility’!
Our 2025 Product Showcase
We’re building a culture where people can come and do their best work and enjoy it. We want our people to be proud of the impact that they have at Primer, and of the work that they are doing. You will be working with a team of people who are mission-driven, smart, and reflective, and who are invested in building exceptional products and delivering success for our merchants (and we also know how to have fun along the way).
We work remotely. We believe that building a successful, profitable company goes beyond proximity. We invest in our relationships with each other through great remote working practices and thoughtfully designed face-to-face time together. Our heads-together time comes in the form of workstations, our annual company retreat, and co-working space access worldwide.
Finally, let’s go ahead and say it. The work that we do is challenging. Startups are a challenge, building category defining products is a challenge. You should be prepared for a challenge at Primer. But, there’s a big difference between a challenge and a struggle. The key difference is that the right challenge comes with the right support structures, an acceptance that not everything always goes to plan, a collaborative environment, and a great team around you. It’s never a challenge that you will face alone.
Our benefits
🌍 We are fully remote and globally distributed; and have been since day one
💰 Competitive share options
🌴 Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
🗣️ Co-working space access
📅 Workations & Company Retreat
💻 The best equipment for your role
🏠 £500 towards your home office setup
🔎 Generous learning budget
🏥 Private Medical Insurance
📈 A broad set of additional perks and benefits ( depending on location)
Don’t meet every single requirement?
At Primer, we’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles. Primer is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees, regardless of background or beliefs.
Primer adopts a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
