
Abound · London
About Abound We’re redefining consumer lending in the UK, and beyond. Using advanced AI and Open Banking data, we make fair, affordable personal finance availa...
About Abound
We’re redefining consumer lending in the UK, and beyond. Using advanced AI and Open Banking data, we make fair, affordable
personal finance available to more people. While traditional lenders rely almost entirely on credit scores, we look at the full
financial picture - how much you spend, and what you can afford to repay to build a deeper, more accurate understanding of each
customer's unique financial situation.
And we've shown it works at scale. We’ve issued over £1.3bn in loans directly to customers while delivering market-leading credit
performance - for every 10 defaults the industry expects, we see only 3. We also reached profitability just 2.5 years after
launch.
Backed by £2bn+ of funding from top-tier investors including Citi, GSR Ventures, and Deutsche Bank, we’re recognised as one of
Europe’s fastest-growing fintechs (Sifted, CNBC). Now, we’re expanding into new markets and product lines - and we’re looking for
ambitious people who want to learn fast, take ownership, and grow with us.
About the role
We are hiring a Chief of Staff to act as the DS Director's right hand, with full visibility across a fast-scaling Data Science and
Credit Risk organisation that builds and runs the decisioning, pricing and credit models behind every Abound product - across
multiple verticals and markets.
This is a high-impact role for someone early in their career who is exceptionally curious and operates with real autonomy. You
won't be handed a playbook. You'll be handed context, access and a mandate - and trusted to figure out the rest.
Your mission is simple: make sure that the DS and Risk team is
What you'll be doing
Execution & follow-through
Model & system health
Operating cadence
models
Cross-team execution
Organisation
DS Director leverage
Who you are
similar
ours, and you're comfortable enough in SQL/Python to look at the data yourself
You are curious but structured, ambitious but humble. You earn authority by being consistently right and useful, not by title.
What we offer
Got Drive? Join AnyVan as we make moving anything, anywhere miles better and build a career that moves just as fast. Back in 2009, our CEO Angus saw half-empty vans everywhere and knew there had to be a better way! That's how AnyVan began. He set out to create the world's most efficient logistics technology and help halve the number of wasted miles by filling those empty vans. Since then we've become the nation's favourite way to move, with over 150k five-star reviews and 5 million customers in the UK and Europe. Our team of 400 AnyVanners across London, Cape Town and Bogota is proving that moving doesn't have to cost the earth by helping save 8,520 tonnes of Carbon each year. We are looking for a Growth Lead to own and execute the projects that matter most to our global expansion. You won’t be boxed into a specific geography, a single channel, or a swim lane. Instead, you operate as a fixer: you will deploy wherever the highest-leverage growth opportunities are, and work in tandem with marketing, product, pricing, sales, and operations to make sure they are successful. Reporting directly to the CMO, you will be the driving force behind our most critical initiatives. We aren't looking for coordinators to manage agencies, build alignment decks, or pass tickets down a line. We need a commercial full-stack operator who brings raw analytical depth, a fierce bias for action, and zero fear of ambiguity. This is the ultimate blend of high-level commercial strategy and directly driving the plot forwards. The Core of The Role: * Own the Outcome: You are entirely accountable for your project. If a hurdle pops up outside of marketing, you don't need to wait for a roadmap, you can dive in and fix it. * Seek the Paths that Scale: This is all about doing the chunky things that have material impact on the business, and you’ll need to help identify the big wins from the small ones. * Commercial Focus: It’s not a role built on vanity metrics, you’ll be moving revenue, conversion rates, CAC, and efficiency. * Using AI vs talking about it: There’s those talking some good talk, but this is about working with our engineers to legitimately productionise new ways of working that drive value for our customers, not using it to write presentations. What you'll be doing: * Driving critical initiatives: Own high-stake growth projects from diagnosis to cross-functional playbook, examples could be getting our next market ready for launch, working on a loyalty program, or deciding how we can improve our product for SMEs - it will be a constant rotation of exciting growth areas. * Creating leverage across teams: This is not about following a pre-defined product roadmap and supporting it with go-to-market, instead you’ll be directly adding to it and defining it, and also working across sales and ops to ensure it’s delivered. * Interrogating the data: We have data science in the team, but you’ll need to be comfortable pulling and analysing your own numbers directly to spot opportunities, and measure progress. * Moving at pace and taking intelligent risks: Data will often be imperfect, and the fastest way to learn is to do it for real, as long as there’s a solid thought process in place. Skills and Experience You'll need: * High agency: Background in startups, scaleups, BizOps, or Chief of Staff roles. You can be handed a vague brief and execute it flawlessly. * Commercial fluency: You talk in revenue, contribution margi, and conversion. You get into the raw data yourself to find the truth. * A full-stack toolkit: Varied career path preferred. You are not a single-channel specialist; you can move between product, ops, and marketing. * Bias for action: You love shipping fast and get frustrated by red tape and corporate bureaucracy. You'd rather ask for forgiveness than permission. * Act like a founder: Self-motivated, comfortable with pressure, and ready to roll up your sleeves to get things done, vs a ‘but that’s not my job’ vibe. * Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role at this time. What We Offer: 💰 Competitive Salary - Highly competitive salaries 🌴 Generous Time Off - 25 days +public holidays, Christmas Eve on us, Long-service perks capped at 30 days. 💪 Health & Wellbeing - On-site gym, Membership with Vitality, Enhanced sick pay 📈 Future Ready - The People’s Pension (5% you, 3% us) 👶 Family Support - Enhanced maternity pay 🚲 Easy Travel - 2 minutes’ walk from the tube, Octopus Electric Vehicles, a Cycle to Work Scheme with Showers and towels on site. ☕ Daily Perks - In-house barista coffee, free breakfast every day and local discounts 🎉 Culture & Community - Weekly drinks, fun socials, and rewards that take you places (literally - last winners hit the Alps) 🚀 Career Growth - Join a disruptive technology leader and fast forward your career move Our company values are: * Have fun, get it done * Progress over perfection * One team thinking big YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR CULTURE HERE: https://www.anyvan.com/careers DE&I We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where every voice is heard, every perspective is valued, and every individual has the opportunity to thrive. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to be part of our mission and contribute to our vibrant culture.
Senior Knowledge Manager Knowledge is becoming a source of competitive advantage. Organisations that have organised, current and trusted knowledge, usable by both people and AI, will make better decisions, move faster, and serve customers better than those that do not. We want our knowledge to be a quiet advantage for ClearScore Group, not a tax. This role exists to do two things at once. The first is hands-on. We have an ever-growing set of working documents, Notion pages, dashboards, and content across a cloud drive, SharePoint and Slack. Some of it should no longer exist. Some of it is foundational and is at risk of being lost. Someone needs to roll their sleeves up: write, rewrite, restructure, decommission, and own the canonical index of what we actually know. This is part librarian, part documentarian, part data steward. The second is strategic. We need to stop treating our corpus of working documents as if it were authoritative knowledge, build a deliberate corpus that is, maintain it actively as facts change, fill the gaps in critical domains like products, regulation and markets, and make sure every piece of significant work leaves behind reusable learning. This is the knowledge architect side of the role. The person in this seat owns the standards, owns the canonical index, does the work where it has to be done by them, and gets the rest done through a federated network of domain owners and maintainers across the Group. This is a mid-level individual contributor role with no direct reports. It sits centrally and reports to the VP of Operations who reports directly to the CEO. The reporting line is deliberately function-agnostic: not inside Data, not inside Architecture, and not inside AI Engineering. This is so the role can set standards across all of those functions without being captured by any of them. What you will be doing: 1. Produce a roll out a written Knowledge Strategy: Endorsed by the executive, this should explicitly address how we do knowledge management in an AI-enabled world. 2. Separate knowledge from working documents: Define what counts as knowledge for the Group (content that is authoritative, owned, current and worth trusting) versus working documentation such as drafts, scratchpads, meeting notes and in-flight thinking, set a higher bar for publishing to the knowledge corpus and use LLM-based tools to help enforce it. 3. Actively maintain the corpus: Set review cycles, ownership and freshness expectations across the corpus and run the rhythm that keeps them honest, surface and resolve stale, duplicate or contradictory content (using LLM-based tools to scan for out-of-date facts, flag contradictions and identify duplicates across thousands of pages), treat decommissioning as a first-class activity with a credible first pass at the existing estate inside six months, maintain clear lineage, and work with Legal, Risk and Compliance on access, retention and regulator-facing obligations across our markets. 4. Fill the gaps in critical domains: Map the domains across the Group, identify where authoritative knowledge is thin or missing, and work down a prioritised backlog through a federated maintainer model where each significant domain has a named expert and a named maintainer working to a standard you set and a cadence you run, sitting alongside teams during the moments that generate important knowledge such as launches, incidents, regulatory responses and M&A so the output is captured at the time, not retrofitted later. 5. Make compounding learning a habit: Establish a simple, mandatory pattern for every significant piece of work to leave behind structured learning (what was the question, what did we decide, what happened, what would we do differently), make that the default output of quarterly business reviews, retros, incident washups, experiments and major decisions rather than a separate task that gets dropped, and curate the resulting record so it is actually retrievable later by people and by AI tools. 6. Equip our knowledge for AI consumption: Be the person who understands, in practical terms, how modern AI systems consume organisational knowledge (retrieval, structure, metadata, permissions) and who specifies what good looks like from the knowledge side, working with the AI Lead, Chief Architect, Chief Data Officer and Engineering on how knowledge is indexed, retrieved and served into internal AI tools (you own the content and its structure; they own the systems that consume it). You are not expected to build production retrieval systems yourself, but to know enough to make sensible design decisions, write the requirements, and spot when an AI answer is grounded in the wrong source. 7. Roll your sleeves up: Author and maintain the Group's canonical knowledge index: the single place any employee or internal AI tool goes to find the authoritative source on a topic. Skills we'd love you to have This role suits someone who brings order to complexity, is comfortable operating across functions without formal authority, and prefers doing the work to talking about it. The technical depth below can be grown into; the judgement and bias to action cannot. ESSENTIAL * Track record of materially improving how knowledge is organised, owned and maintained in a mid-to-large organisation, through a mix of strategy, standards and personally doing the work. * Strong writer and structurer. Able to turn messy source material into clear, accurate, well-structured content; able to design a taxonomy and an index that other people can actually use. * Comfortable with data governance concepts as applied to knowledge: ownership, custodianship, classification, access, lineage, retention. Aware of the obligations that come with operating in regulated markets. * Practical understanding of how modern AI tools consume organisational knowledge, including retrieval, structure, metadata, and permissions, enough to specify requirements clearly to Data, Engineering and the AI Lead, and to evaluate whether an AI answer is grounded in the right source. Not expected to be an ML engineer. * Fluent across the tooling landscape we use or might use: wikis, documentation systems, knowledge bases, document stores, search. * Able to influence without authority. Able to say no, hold a standard, run a federated network of maintainers, and stay constructive through it. * Bias to action. Happy to write the first version, fix the broken link, rename the file, restructure the folder, archive the page that nobody has opened in two years. DESIRABLE * Experience in financial services, fintech, or another regulated industry with meaningful documentation and records obligations. * Background that includes library or information science, technical writing, knowledge engineering, records management, or data governance. * Experience operating a federated model, with appointed experts and maintainers across functions, rather than relying on a central team. * Exposure to API-led businesses where knowledge is exposed to external systems as well as internal staff. * Direct experience of organisations going through the transition to AI-assisted retrieval, on the knowledge side rather than the platform side. Why ClearScore? ClearScore is the UK's #1 credit score and report app. We are also present in South Africa, Australia and Canada, with more than 20 million users globally and growing fast. Someone joins ClearScore every 20 seconds. We have established relationships with over 50 of the main lenders in the U.K., and have been a trusted tool for customers to manage their credit and make better financial decisions. Since October 2016 we have helped 1.8 million users take out a new credit card or loan. We are user-centric at our core and we believe in leveraging technology to enable positive financial choices. We are design-led and data-driven and we embed these behaviours in everything we do. Our company culture is a fundamental part of all we have achieved. We believe in hiring smart, driven, passionate and diverse people who are keen on having a real impact in our organisation. We trust you to manage your own time so we offer flexible work and no fixed desk hours. We don't micromanage and we believe in measuring outcomes rather than effort. We have an inclusive culture where all, regardless of seniority, are encouraged to contribute with their ideas, look after their wellbeing and actively seek opportunities for career growth. If you feel like this could be the place for you, apply and our Talent team will be happy to share more. Benefits: * 25 paid holidays and a “duvet day” on your birthday * Hybrid Work Environment * Private health and dental cover - including mental health support through Bupa * GP office visits * Life assurance scheme * Up to 6% matched pension * Regular Lunch and Learns with guest speakers * Dog-friendly office * Daily breakfast and free snacks * Access to discounts via Cobens Extras * Free sports and social clubs * Continued investment into learning and development * Leadership-led training * In-house psychotherapist * Financial coach to help you plan and achieve your goals * No clock-watching culture * Generous maternity and paternity plans * Culture and inclusion representatives * Transparent pay structure and a career growth plan Equal Opportunities ClearScore is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. As an equal opportunity employer, we are able to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate individuals with disabilities during the recruitment and selection process. If you require accommodation, please inform us in advance, and we will work with you to meet your needs. Our Hybrid Model We embrace a dynamic hybrid work environment that balances flexibility with collaborative in-person experiences. Our approach is designed to foster innovation, team connection, and individual productivity. * Levels 1-5: Minimum 2 days per week in-office * Level 6 and above: Minimum 3 days per week in-office We believe this structure offers the best of both worlds - the flexibility of remote work and the synergy of face-to-face collaboration. Our office days are carefully coordinated to maximise team interactions and learning/ mentorship opportunities. What This Means for You: * Flexibility to manage your work and life * Dedicated in-office days for team building and collaborative projects * Office facilities (with plants!) designed for productive interactions * Clear expectations and support for maintaining our hybrid schedule We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment that accommodates diverse needs while maintaining our collaborative culture. Join us in shaping the future of work! Note: While we offer flexibility, commitment to our hybrid schedule is an important aspect of our team culture and performance expectations. Inclusion Policy We are always looking for talented individuals to join ClearScore. We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our people. Please see our People Policy Notice at https://www.clearscore.com/people-notice.
Senior Knowledge Manager Knowledge is becoming a source of competitive advantage. Organisations that have organised, current and trusted knowledge, usable by both people and AI, will make better decisions, move faster, and serve customers better than those that do not. We want our knowledge to be a quiet advantage for ClearScore Group, not a tax. This role exists to do two things at once. The first is hands-on. We have an ever-growing set of working documents, Notion pages, dashboards, and content across a cloud drive, SharePoint and Slack. Some of it should no longer exist. Some of it is foundational and is at risk of being lost. Someone needs to roll their sleeves up: write, rewrite, restructure, decommission, and own the canonical index of what we actually know. This is part librarian, part documentarian, part data steward. The second is strategic. We need to stop treating our corpus of working documents as if it were authoritative knowledge, build a deliberate corpus that is, maintain it actively as facts change, fill the gaps in critical domains like products, regulation and markets, and make sure every piece of significant work leaves behind reusable learning. This is the knowledge architect side of the role. The person in this seat owns the standards, owns the canonical index, does the work where it has to be done by them, and gets the rest done through a federated network of domain owners and maintainers across the Group. This is a mid-level individual contributor role with no direct reports. It sits centrally and reports to the VP of Operations who reports directly to the CEO. The reporting line is deliberately function-agnostic: not inside Data, not inside Architecture, and not inside AI Engineering. This is so the role can set standards across all of those functions without being captured by any of them. What you will be doing: 1. Produce a roll out a written Knowledge Strategy: Endorsed by the executive, this should explicitly address how we do knowledge management in an AI-enabled world. 2. Separate knowledge from working documents: Define what counts as knowledge for the Group (content that is authoritative, owned, current and worth trusting) versus working documentation such as drafts, scratchpads, meeting notes and in-flight thinking, set a higher bar for publishing to the knowledge corpus and use LLM-based tools to help enforce it. 3. Actively maintain the corpus: Set review cycles, ownership and freshness expectations across the corpus and run the rhythm that keeps them honest, surface and resolve stale, duplicate or contradictory content (using LLM-based tools to scan for out-of-date facts, flag contradictions and identify duplicates across thousands of pages), treat decommissioning as a first-class activity with a credible first pass at the existing estate inside six months, maintain clear lineage, and work with Legal, Risk and Compliance on access, retention and regulator-facing obligations across our markets. 4. Fill the gaps in critical domains: Map the domains across the Group, identify where authoritative knowledge is thin or missing, and work down a prioritised backlog through a federated maintainer model where each significant domain has a named expert and a named maintainer working to a standard you set and a cadence you run, sitting alongside teams during the moments that generate important knowledge such as launches, incidents, regulatory responses and M&A so the output is captured at the time, not retrofitted later. 5. Make compounding learning a habit: Establish a simple, mandatory pattern for every significant piece of work to leave behind structured learning (what was the question, what did we decide, what happened, what would we do differently), make that the default output of quarterly business reviews, retros, incident washups, experiments and major decisions rather than a separate task that gets dropped, and curate the resulting record so it is actually retrievable later by people and by AI tools. 6. Equip our knowledge for AI consumption: Be the person who understands, in practical terms, how modern AI systems consume organisational knowledge (retrieval, structure, metadata, permissions) and who specifies what good looks like from the knowledge side, working with the AI Lead, Chief Architect, Chief Data Officer and Engineering on how knowledge is indexed, retrieved and served into internal AI tools (you own the content and its structure; they own the systems that consume it). You are not expected to build production retrieval systems yourself, but to know enough to make sensible design decisions, write the requirements, and spot when an AI answer is grounded in the wrong source. 7. Roll your sleeves up: Author and maintain the Group's canonical knowledge index: the single place any employee or internal AI tool goes to find the authoritative source on a topic. Skills we'd love you to have This role suits someone who brings order to complexity, is comfortable operating across functions without formal authority, and prefers doing the work to talking about it. The technical depth below can be grown into; the judgement and bias to action cannot. ESSENTIAL * Track record of materially improving how knowledge is organised, owned and maintained in a mid-to-large organisation, through a mix of strategy, standards and personally doing the work. * Strong writer and structurer. Able to turn messy source material into clear, accurate, well-structured content; able to design a taxonomy and an index that other people can actually use. * Comfortable with data governance concepts as applied to knowledge: ownership, custodianship, classification, access, lineage, retention. Aware of the obligations that come with operating in regulated markets. * Practical understanding of how modern AI tools consume organisational knowledge, including retrieval, structure, metadata, and permissions, enough to specify requirements clearly to Data, Engineering and the AI Lead, and to evaluate whether an AI answer is grounded in the right source. Not expected to be an ML engineer. * Fluent across the tooling landscape we use or might use: wikis, documentation systems, knowledge bases, document stores, search. * Able to influence without authority. Able to say no, hold a standard, run a federated network of maintainers, and stay constructive through it. * Bias to action. Happy to write the first version, fix the broken link, rename the file, restructure the folder, archive the page that nobody has opened in two years. DESIRABLE * Experience in financial services, fintech, or another regulated industry with meaningful documentation and records obligations. * Background that includes library or information science, technical writing, knowledge engineering, records management, or data governance. * Experience operating a federated model, with appointed experts and maintainers across functions, rather than relying on a central team. * Exposure to API-led businesses where knowledge is exposed to external systems as well as internal staff. * Direct experience of organisations going through the transition to AI-assisted retrieval, on the knowledge side rather than the platform side. Why ClearScore? ClearScore is the UK's #1 credit score and report app. We are also present in South Africa, Australia and Canada, with more than 20 million users globally and growing fast. Someone joins ClearScore every 20 seconds. We have established relationships with over 50 of the main lenders in the U.K., and have been a trusted tool for customers to manage their credit and make better financial decisions. Since October 2016 we have helped 1.8 million users take out a new credit card or loan. We are user-centric at our core and we believe in leveraging technology to enable positive financial choices. We are design-led and data-driven and we embed these behaviours in everything we do. Our company culture is a fundamental part of all we have achieved. We believe in hiring smart, driven, passionate and diverse people who are keen on having a real impact in our organisation. We trust you to manage your own time so we offer flexible work and no fixed desk hours. We don't micromanage and we believe in measuring outcomes rather than effort. We have an inclusive culture where all, regardless of seniority, are encouraged to contribute with their ideas, look after their wellbeing and actively seek opportunities for career growth. If you feel like this could be the place for you, apply and our Talent team will be happy to share more. Benefits: * 25 paid holidays and a “duvet day” on your birthday * Hybrid Work Environment * Private health and dental cover - including mental health support through Bupa * GP office visits * Life assurance scheme * Up to 6% matched pension * Regular Lunch and Learns with guest speakers * Dog-friendly office * Daily breakfast and free snacks * Access to discounts via Cobens Extras * Free sports and social clubs * Continued investment into learning and development * Leadership-led training * In-house psychotherapist * Financial coach to help you plan and achieve your goals * No clock-watching culture * Generous maternity and paternity plans * Culture and inclusion representatives * Transparent pay structure and a career growth plan Equal Opportunities ClearScore is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. As an equal opportunity employer, we are able to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate individuals with disabilities during the recruitment and selection process. If you require accommodation, please inform us in advance, and we will work with you to meet your needs. Our Hybrid Model We embrace a dynamic hybrid work environment that balances flexibility with collaborative in-person experiences. Our approach is designed to foster innovation, team connection, and individual productivity. * Levels 1-5: Minimum 2 days per week in-office * Level 6 and above: Minimum 3 days per week in-office We believe this structure offers the best of both worlds - the flexibility of remote work and the synergy of face-to-face collaboration. Our office days are carefully coordinated to maximise team interactions and learning/ mentorship opportunities. What This Means for You: * Flexibility to manage your work and life * Dedicated in-office days for team building and collaborative projects * Office facilities (with plants!) designed for productive interactions * Clear expectations and support for maintaining our hybrid schedule We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment that accommodates diverse needs while maintaining our collaborative culture. Join us in shaping the future of work! Note: While we offer flexibility, commitment to our hybrid schedule is an important aspect of our team culture and performance expectations. Inclusion Policy We are always looking for talented individuals to join ClearScore. We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our people. Please see our People Policy Notice at https://www.clearscore.com/people-notice.