Principal, CEO Office
Role Summary
Join Checkout.com's CEO Office as a Principal to drive strategic initiatives and operational excellence, influencing key outcomes in a dynamic fintech environment.
About the Organisation
We’re Checkout.com. You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day.
We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers.
Whether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale.
If you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact.
With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech – and we’re just getting started.
Minimum Requirements
The CEO Office helps Checkout focus on what matters most and turn problem statements into business outcomes.
As you build context, trust, and execution credibility, you can expand your scope into broader strategic and operational topics owned or incubated by the CEO Office. The role also offers exposure across Checkout and a pathway into different functions within the company.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills: You break problems down into components, move comfortably between strategic thinking and operational detail, and build your own analyses and models rather than commissioning them
- Excellent communication skills: clear and concise, with experience working with senior executives. You build relationships across teams, resolve conflicts, and drive alignment across functions with competing priorities, without formal authority
- Comfort with unknowns: You enjoy steep learning curves and believe in first-principles thinking. You analyse problems and use data to inform decisions, optimise processes and track performance. You are comfortable with shifting priorities, ambiguity, and fast-moving environments
- Humility and low ego: You are an ambassador for our mission, values and operating principles
- AI-native way of working: You reach for AI tools first to research, analyse, build and automate, and you make yourself measurably faster with them
- Builder mindset: You'd rather own the outcome than the recommendation, and you have evidence of building things that lasted beyond your involvement
- A track record of impact: quantifiable business outcomes, rapid growth in responsibility, and competitive achievements inside or outside work
- Experience in consulting, high-growth technology companies, investing, investment banking, strategic finance, or similarly high-performance environments
- Exposure to payments, fintech, or money movement
- You have built low-code/no-code or AI automations that others still use
- Advanced SQL or hands-on data analysis skills
- International experience across multiple markets and cultures
- Entrepreneurial experience: founded or helped build something from scratch
Eligibility Criteria
This position is suitable for candidates with strong problem-solving and strategic capabilities; specific visa sponsorship information is not mentioned.
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