Technical Delivery Director

Our Mission

Bud's mission is simple. We're here to create the world’s most compelling financial data products. The products we're building are used by some of the world's most prestigious institutions to help millions of their customers take control of their finances.

We recently raised $80m in our Series B so you’ll be joining us at a really exciting time as we expand into new markets and invest heavily into the business.

Your Mission‍‍

As our Technical Delivery Director, you'll be accountable for the successful delivery of Bud’s services to a B2B audience.

What impact will you make?

• You’ll oversee a team of Technical Delivery specialists who work closely with Bud's clients, defining and mapping solution architecture and translating those requirements into plans for Bud's teams to deliver against.
• Understand Bud’s primary drivers of value and align the objectives, KPIs and operating model of the Technical Delivery function in line with those drivers
• You will facilitate the identification of data-driven improvement opportunities, as well as promote and engage key stakeholders in the implementation of best practices and improvement across the organisation for how we deliver technology to clients
• Solve complex, ambiguous business, change, and technology problems, bringing structure and rigorous analysis and planning; acting and making judgements with little management oversight
• Overseeing technical integration timelines across Bud’s portfolio of clients, liaising with Bud’s internal Product teams and Clients to ensure the successful delivery against timelines
• Play a pivotal role in conducting cross-functional technical operations across architecture, product, partnerships, security, risk, compliance, data privacy, and more

A bit about you

• 8+ years of relevant experience in a similar technical delivery or technical programme management role in a credible Financial Institution, Fintech or Consultancy
• Able to thrive in a scale-up environment, managing multiple priorities and ambiguous problems with minimal oversight
• Experience in SaaS API and Client Delivery is preferred
• Resourceful finds practical solutions; hands-on and gets things done well and quickly
• Good listener and communicator, able to manage senior stakeholders and people from different departments to be on the same page and work effectively
• Has excellent judgement in identifying problems, making trade-off decisions under pressure and proactively stops risks from becoming issues
• Calm under pressure and able to rally people to get escalating issues under control
• Customer-obsessed; thinks instinctively from the customer’s perspective and able to factor the customer experience into decision making

We believe that diversity will make us better.

Bud’s mission is to make the money part of people’s lives simple. To get there, we need a workforce that is diverse as the people we create our products for. Which means we need people who have different backgrounds and experiences, who are diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and ways of thinking. We truly believe that these differences will make us grow as a company and a team. We strive to create a workplace and culture where our people are empowered, supported, given equal opportunities and can bring their authentic selves to work.

Benefits

Compensation

We offer competitive salaries in line with industry benchmarks, set using extensive market data. We review salaries on an annual basis to make sure we continue to reward people well for their contributions at Bud.

Career Progression

We all know how important it is to make sure we’re all growing in our roles. We have a detailed career progression framework to help you track your development and growth during your time at Bud, and your level within this framework will be formally reviewed every six months.

Wellbeing ️‍ ️‍ ️

We understand how important it is to look after your physical and mental health, and also that this looks different for everyone. To support this, we offer a range of wellbeing benefits for our team. We have private medical insurance as well as a £50 monthly flexible wellbeing allowance. We also partner with the mental health platform, Spill, who provide therapy services and support.

Learning & Development

As part of our commitment to developing our people, all employees at Bud have an annual £1000 pot available to use towards their learning and development - think books, courses & events - the choice is yours.

We also have quarterly R&D days, giving you the opportunity to take a break for 2 days from live projects and work on something that’s inspired you, either independently or as part of a collaborative team.

Flexible Working

As a trusted member of Bud, you’ll have the freedom and flexibility to manage your time and routine in a way that suits you, and your team, allowing you to deliver your best work. All of our roles can be based in our London office, or fully remote/distributed in the UK.

Time Off ️

We’re a team that likes to work hard, so we need to make sure we balance this with time to rest and relax. We offer 25 days holiday, plus the usual bank holidays, plus additional time off over the holiday season.

We also give everyone two days of paid volunteering leave per year, to spend time on projects and initiatives that matter to you.

Pension

We believe in helping our staff save for retirement, with Bud matching pension contributions up to 5%.

Equipment

We’ll get you all set up to work effectively and comfortably from Day 1 with an Apple laptop and any additional equipment you might need to work remotely.

Social

We’re big on keeping Bud a social place to work, with big quarterly events (we throw an epic summer party) and regular team socials.

Commuting

We are big advocates of sustainable transport and travel, and are members of a cycle to work scheme. We also have season ticket loans available.