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# IT Manager at Paddle

- **Company:** Paddle
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/paddle/c62c01fb-2838-409f-9f43-858772597856

## Job description

What do we do? Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payments fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better. We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 10,000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.

## The role

Paddle's IT team is looking for an IT Manager to lead and develop the team that keeps every Paddler equipped, connected, and secure. This is a role for someone who can operate at two altitudes at once: setting IT strategy, managing budget and vendor relationships, and leading people, while also being willing to get hands-on. You'll lead a lean team of IT engineers, own the systems that underpin how the business works day to day (identity, devices, service delivery), and be the person who pushes the function forward - using data and automation, including AI, to change how IT operates rather than just keeping the lights on.

## What you'll do

- Lead, coach, and develop a lean team of IT engineers - setting priorities, unblocking their hardest problems, and stepping in hands-on for complex or escalated issues.
- Own Okta identity and access management for the business: the lifecycle, integrations, and day-to-day administration that keep joiners, movers, and leavers secure and frictionless.
- Own macOS and Apple device management and endpoint tooling across the business, in a way that's secure by default and low-friction for Paddlers.
- Drive the adoption of data, automation, and AI across IT operations - identifying where tooling and agents can remove manual toil, speed up support, and evolve how the team operates.
- Set and own IT's operating rhythm: support tooling, SLAs, and the metrics that show whether the function is improving.
- Manage the IT budget and vendor portfolio - evaluating spend, negotiating commercial terms, ensuring that we’re operating efficiently and running a SaaS estate that spans across multiple departments.
- Implement and maintain baseline security and resilience practices for IT-owned systems (CIS Benchmarks, patching, disaster recovery), partnering closely with the wider Security team on anything that crosses into security engineering.
- Act as the conduit between IT and the rest of the business - translating department needs into IT capabilities.

## Skills & Experience

At Paddle we value a growth mindset and a willingness to learn, so if you're confident in most of these skills (not necessarily all) and you're excited to grow, we encourage you to apply. We'd love to hear from you if you:

- Have led or managed a technical IT team before, with a track record of developing people as well as delivering outcomes.
- Are technically credible: strong systems administration and infrastructure fundamentals, and comfortable being the escalation point when something's genuinely hard.
- Have hands-on experience running an IAM platform in production, ideally Okta, including lifecycle automation and integrations.
- Have in-depth knowledge of macOS and Apple hardware, ideally managing it in a corporate/enterprise environment (Iru or equivalent).
- Are excited about AI and automation as tools for operational leverage, with examples of using them - or data and workflows more broadly - to change how a team works.
- Can manage a budget and vendor relationships commercially: evaluating cost, negotiating terms, and knowing how to get the most out of a tool or platform.
- Have experience running IT projects end-to-end, from scoping through delivery and stakeholder reporting.
- Understand core security and compliance fundamentals well enough to implement and maintain them.
- Communicate clearly and adapt your message for technical peers and non-technical senior stakeholders alike.
- Are a strong leader who can hold a calm, clear line under pressure (incidents, competing priorities, escalations).

Everyone is welcome at Paddle At Paddle, we’re committed to removing invisible barriers, both for our customers and within our own teams. We recognise and celebrate that every Paddler is unique and we welcome every individual perspective. As an inclusive employer we don’t care if, or where, you studied, what you look like or where you’re from. We’re more interested in your craft, curiosity, passion for learning and what you’ll add to our culture. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every part of the job ad, especially if you’re part of an underrepresented group.

Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better support you through the application process and in the workplace. We will do everything we can to support any accommodations needed. We’re committed to building a diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their authentic self. Let’s grow together.

## Why you’ll love working at Paddle

We are a diverse, growing group of Paddlers across the globe who pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative and respectful culture. We live and breathe our values, which are: Paddle for others Paddle together Paddle simply We offer a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare and wellbeing initiatives. We invest in learning and will help you with your personal development via constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning fund, and regular internal and external training.

Connecting at Paddle We’re a ‘digital-first’ company, which means our Paddlers always have the freedom to choose where, when and how they work within our hub locations. We recognize that where our Paddlers do their best work is unique to them and we provide trust and autonomy for everyone to work in a way which fits them best. We also value the power of connection and have invested in global hubs which help local communities flourish and bring us together for focused collaboration.

Our Paddle hubs:

- In Europe: UK (London headquarters), Portugal (Lisbon hub), Netherlands and Ireland (Dublin hub)
- In North America: Austin, TX (USA) and Toronto (Canada)

Our hub philosophy creates an engaging experience for all Paddlers, wherever, whenever and however we choose to work.

To support this, we focus hiring within our hubs and will always openly share the available locations for each open position on our job description.

## About Paddle

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Paddle provides a complete payments, billing, tax, and compliance platform for SaaS and digital product businesses, acting as a Merchant of Record to simplify global selling.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: London, England, UK
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Fintech / Payments
- **Target customers**: B2B SaaS companies, mobile app developers, and digital product businesses (SMB to Enterprise)
- **Mission**: “We help digital product companies operate and grow, automatically.” [careers page]

## Products & Services
- **Paddle Billing**: Fully managed subscription billing, payments, localized checkout, sales tax and regulatory compliance across 300+ markets (Merchant of Record model).
- **ProfitWell Metrics**: Real-time subscription, retention, and growth analytics for digital businesses.
- **Retain**: Automated revenue recovery – recovers failed payments, reduces cancellations, and optimizes subscriptions to protect revenue.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 10,000 customers using Paddle; $6B+ in transactions processed; $130M in sales taxes remitted globally last year; 94% average payment acceptance rate [paddle.com]
- **Notable Investors**: FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, 83North [builtin.com]
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid expansion across global tech hubs (UK, US, Canada, Portugal, Ireland, Philippines); headcount growing (355 total employees per Built In, with many open engineering and commercial roles); customer base growing from 3,000 (earlier) to over 10,000.

## Competitive Advantages
- Full Merchant of Record insurance and liability coverage, reducing compliance risk for customers
- Handles tax compliance across 300+ markets globally – removes the need for customers to manage multiple registrations
- Intelligent automation for billing, revenue optimization, and fraud prevention
- Unified platform replaces a fragmented stack of payments, tax, and analytics tools

## Strategic Focus
- Enable digital product businesses to scale globally without operational complexity
- Continuously improve revenue performance through automation and data-driven insights (ProfitWell/Retain acquisitions)
- Expand into new markets and deepen partnerships with SaaS platforms

## Why Work Here
- **Work model**: Digital-first company with hub offices in London, New York, Toronto, and Austin; remote options available for many roles; flexible work from abroad up to 45 days/year (“Navigate” program).
- **Perks & benefits**: Competitive compensation + share options; unlimited vacation; generous learning & development budget; 26 weeks paid leave for primary caregivers / 17 weeks for non-primary; private healthcare & mental health support; home workstation budget (standing desk, Herman Miller chair); transportation subsidies (train, cycle to work).
- **Culture**: Values include “Paddle simply”, “Paddle for others”, and “Paddle together”; company retreats, happy hours, and inclusive events; strong engineering culture with roles across UK, Portugal, and Ireland.
- **Growth**: Rapidly scaling company with clear career progression and exposure to complex infrastructure challenges.

## Sources
1. [paddle.com](https://www.paddle.com/) – Homepage product and customer highlights
2. [paddle.com/careers](https://www.paddle.com/careers) – Open roles, perks, and culture description
3. [paddle.com/about](https://www.paddle.com/about) – Leadership, company stats, and MoR explanation
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/paddle) – Employee count, investors, office locations, and job listings

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