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title: 'Principal, CEO Office at Checkout.com'
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# Principal, CEO Office at Checkout.com

- **Company:** [Checkout.com](https://feeny.ai/companies/checkout-com)
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/checkout.com/8c9bd2fa-6f20-4c4e-afb8-622a4d1f9adb

## Job description

Company Description

We’re http://checkout.comCheckout.com http://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.

## THE CEO OFFICE

The CEO Office works with senior leaders across Checkout.com http://Checkout.com on high-priority strategic and operational problems. The team turns important questions into clear decisions, coordinated execution and measurable business outcomes.

## THE ROLE

This is a manager-level individual-contributor role for a hands-on operator. You will own defined, high-priority, cross-functional initiatives end to end—from framing problems and aligning stakeholders to implementing solutions and delivering measurable outcomes.

Working closely with the Head of the CEO Office, you will combine structured problem-solving with hands-on execution. You will translate priorities into coordinated action, strengthen how teams operate and drive initiatives through to impact.

This is neither a traditional PMO nor a presentation-led strategy role, and it is not an executive-level position. Success requires sound judgement, analytical rigour, clear communication, operational follow-through and the ability to influence effectively without formal authority.

## HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT (ROLE OVERVIEW)

- Support the CEO and Head of the CEO Office on critical cross-functional initiatives by helping coordinate day-to-day delivery, stakeholder collaboration and progress towards measurable outcomes.
- Help investigate complex, ambiguous problems by clarifying the problem, developing practical solutions and supporting the implementation of durable processes or systems.
- Support departments in scaling by contributing to organisation design, objectives and KPI setting, and the development of robust operating processes.
- Assist leadership in navigating ambiguity by surfacing insights, decisions and risks, coordinating follow-through and supporting alignment across teams, particularly where there is no natural owner.
- Projects may include organisational model design, international expansion strategy, scaling new business lines, strategic planning and goal setting, go-to-market execution, regulatory, data and financial infrastructure initiatives, and supporting board and shareholder reporting.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR (BACKGROUND AND CORE COMPETENCIES)

- Relevant background and impact: Experience in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.Relevant backgrounds include consulting, high-growth technology, investing, investment banking, strategic finance or entrepreneurial operations. Payments or fintech exposure and international experience are advantages.
- Problem-solving and analytical rigour: Use first-principles thinking, data and judgement to structure ambiguous problems, identify key measures and move between strategic questions and operational detail. Advanced SQL or hands-on data analysis is a plus.
- Building and execution: Turn analysis into practical plans, KPIs, processes, tools or systems that create durable value. Experience building low-code/no-code or AI automations that others continue to use is a plus.
- Ownership and impact: Personally own cross-functional work and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Influence and collaboration: Build trust, navigate trade-offs and make progress across functions without formal authority, with a low-ego and collaborative approach.
- Learning agility and entrepreneurial mindset: Learn quickly, respond well to feedback, adapt to changing priorities and show evidence of creating, launching or materially improving something from scratch. Founding or entrepreneurial experience is valued but not required.

Additional Information

Bring all of you to work

We create the conditions for high performers to thrive, through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one.

Here, you’ll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity, and where your growth is in your hands.

We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you’re ready to grow and make a difference, you’ll be right at home here.

It’s important we set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable.

Life at Checkout.com http://Checkout.com

We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.

Curious about what it’s like to be part of our team? Visit our Careers Page https://www.checkout.com/careers to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us.

For a closer look at daily life at Checkout.com http://Checkout.com, follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/checkout/life/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/checkout_com/

## About Checkout.com

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Checkout.com is a global, high-performance payment platform that enables enterprises to accept payments, move money, and optimize revenue through a modular, AI-powered suite of services.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, last funding round Jan 2022)
- **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Guillaume Pousaz

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Payments / FinTech (online payment processing, acquiring, fraud management, money movement)
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily enterprise merchants and high-growth digital businesses (e.g., e-commerce, travel, food delivery, marketplaces)
- **Mission or purpose**: To turn payments into a powerful revenue driver for businesses by obsessing over every basis point of performance.

## Products & Services
- **Connect**: Accept payments online via a single API, supporting 150+ currencies and local acquiring in 50+ countries.
- **Move**: Simplify global money movement, including payouts, refunds, and supplier payments (e.g., via Visa Direct).
- **Boost** (Intelligent Acceptance): AI-powered engine that optimizes payment routing and retries to increase conversion rates.
- **Protect**: Fraud detection, authentication, identity verification, and chargeback management tools.
- **Manage**: Centralized dashboard for monitoring payments, balances, and analytics across all geographies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company; last Series D raised $1B at a reported valuation of $40B in Jan 2022 per news, but this is not confirmed in search results – treat as unconfirmed)
- **Key Metric**: Processed $300B in total ecommerce payment volume in 2025 for enterprise merchants (source: checkout.com homepage); total funding raised: $1.8B (Crunchbase)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Franklin Templeton, Ribbit Capital (among 14 investors per Crunchbase); partner with Visa Direct; named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Merchant Payment Providers, Q1 2026
- **Growth Signals**: 19 offices worldwide; 1,000–5,000 employees; serves category-defining businesses (e.g., Klarna, Grab, The Trade Desk, etc. as shown in case studies); AI-powered Intelligent Acceptance delivering 4–6% uplift in acceptance rates for clients.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary technology**: Cloud-native, self-healing infrastructure with high uptime and local acquiring in 50+ countries.
- **AI-first optimization**: Intelligent Acceptance engine uses network data and machine learning to maximize conversions.
- **Modular platform**: Products work standalone or together, allowing merchants to customize their payment stack.
- **Enterprise scale**: Proven ability to handle billions in volume for global merchants.
- **Single platform for issuing and acquiring**: Recently unified issuing and acquiring to improve liquidity and control for travel and other verticals.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI acceleration**: Going all-in on AI across products and internal operations (see blog “How we’re using AI to accelerate our velocity”).
- **Agentic commerce**: Preparing for AI-driven shopping agents by developing merchant-controlled checkout models and chargeback strategies.
- **Expanding money movement**: Enhancing payout capabilities (e.g., Visa Direct partnership) and virtual card issuing.
- **Global reach**: Continuing to add local acquiring markets and payment methods.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High-performance, ownership-driven environment with values like “Athlete Mindset”, “Never Give Up”, “Talk Straight”, and “One Team”. Emphasis on continuous improvement, data-driven decisions, and speed.
- **Hybrid policy**: Required in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (as of Aug 2025). Also offers “Work from Anywhere” options and flexibility.
- **Diversity & belonging**: Nine employee-led communities (Ability+, Arab, Asian, Black, Jewish, Latine, Parents, Pride, Women). Committed to inclusive hiring and accessibility.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health and wellbeing cover, family-forming support, high-quality food in offices, volunteering days, sustainable pace with time away, and choice/control over rewards.
- **Growth**: Fast-paced environment with early ownership, global opportunities, and a focus on learning (continuous development resources).
- **Hiring process**: Four stages – recruiter screen, first interview, task/challenge, final interview. Typically 4–6 weeks. Feedback provided after each stage.

## Sources
1. [checkout.com](https://www.checkout.com/?ref_type=adv)
2. [checkout.com/life-at-checkout](http://www.checkout.com/life-at-checkout)
3. [checkout.com/jobs](https://www.checkout.com/jobs)
4. [checkout.com/careers](https://www.checkout.com/careers)
5. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/checkout-com)

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