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# Product Partnership Manager at Thought Machine

- **Company:** Thought Machine
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $140k–$175k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thought-machine/8dd3f9df-74f8-42cd-aeb5-ecb5099b1e86

## Job description

Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking through core and payments technology which run natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology.

We have grown rapidly in the past few years – growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and our newly established Engineering Hub in Lisbon. We have raised more than £500m in funding and our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and more.

We have created a culture that enables our team to produce the best work in the industry while ensuring we have fun along the way. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the industry's most generous employee share package. Named one of the world's most innovative fintechs by Global Finance Magazine, we were also recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies for two consecutive years—and a UK Best Employer for 2026.

The Product Partnerships Manager role is responsible for executing on the partnership strategy for expanding product capabilities and ultimately expanding the total addressable market and opportunities that our commercial team can capitalize on. The Product Partnerships Manager will be responsible for managing partnership relationships, shaping product propositions, executing on go-to-market motions, facilitating commercial activities between Thought Machine and the partner, developing our better together story, and tracking the success of the partnership initiatives.

Roles and Responsibilities In the process of finalizing the roles and responsibilities for Product Partnerships Manager but can share the high level scope.

- Identify product proposition opportunities and the set of partners that could bring the opportunity to market.
- Research and track high-impact issues that banks face from a core and payments technology perspective as well as partner capabilities that best complement our product capabilities.
- Track the partners that have influence with commercial targets to find opportunities to strengthen our positioning with a prospect.
- Create and structure the necessary collateral and narrative for a better together story that highlight the customer problem we are solving, the combined capability set, and why our product proposition strengthen our overall value to the customer
- Lead engagements with partners developing proprietary assets to ensure all builds strictly complement our product direction.
- Ability to run low level workshops with partners, demoing with an understanding of the evolution and direction of our products.
- Ensure each partner solution enhances our product offering, rather than duplicating internal roadmaps and engineering efforts.
- Build the go-to-market strategy and partnership plan to ensure objectives, targets, and success criteria are collectively agreed upon and iterated upon when success is not met
- Manage relationships of partner organisations, identifying key incentive programs and ensuring that they bring the right stakeholders into builds that strictly complement the Thought Machine roadmap.

Required Experience and Skills

- Strong technical understanding of core banking, payment processing platforms, cloud service provider partnership experience, and/or cloud-native architecture and components that underlies the platform.
- You must be able to judge the technical fit of partner solutions against a complex. engineering roadmap and speak the language of both developers and C-Suite executives
- Thorough understanding of the region’s banking landscape from a competitor, macro-economic, and regulatory perspective as well as high value areas that our product can expand into.
- Keeps up with the latest market trends in technology and banking and is able to relate those news events in a way that is relevant to our product and the clients we serve.
- In-depth knowledge of our ISV partner’s technology, service offerings, incentives, and key priorities in order to best align from both a technology and commercial perspective
- Strong presentation skills and ability to present to client and partner executives and senior stakeholders
- Strong project management skills to track all of the partnership specific activities
- Strong relationship and interpersonal skills

We actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence in their field and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't accurately match the job description. We also encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia.

## About Thought Machine

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Thought Machine provides cloud-native core banking and payments platforms that enable banks to build and run any financial product without legacy constraints.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, valuation $2.7bn as of 2023)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Paul Taylor

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Core banking technology / Fintech infrastructure
- **Target customers**: Tier 1 multinational banks, regional banks, digital banks, and fintechs (B2B, enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose**: To create technology that can run the world’s banks according to the best designs and software practices of the modern age, permanently ridding banks of legacy infrastructure problems.

## Products & Services
- **[Vault Core](https://www.thoughtmachine.net/)**: Cloud-native core banking engine built from scratch, using microservices architecture and smart contracts. Supports current/savings accounts, credit cards, loans, mortgages, and custom products. Includes a Product Library of 200+ preconfigured financial products. (Type: SaaS / platform)
- **[Vault Payments](https://www.thoughtmachine.net/)**: Cloud-native payments processing platform for all payment types, schemes, and regions. Launched with card issuing and processing on the Mastercard network. (Type: SaaS / platform)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $2.7bn (after $160m Series D in 2023, per [thoughtmachine.net/about-us](https://www.thoughtmachine.net/about-us))
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $510m across Series A ($25m), B ($125m), C ($200m), and D ($160m). Annual revenue not publicly available.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: JPMorgan Chase, Lloyds Banking Group, ING, Standard Chartered, SEB, Intesa Sanpaolo, Nyca Partners, Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, British Business Bank, Temasek, Morgan Stanley. Strategic partnership with Mastercard (2024).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount surpassed 500 (per [thoughtmachine.net/about-us](https://www.thoughtmachine.net/about-us)); global expansion into Mexico, Chile, South Korea, Israel, Guatemala; named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Retail Core Banking Systems; client wins include JPMorgan Chase, ING Poland, Intesa Sanpaolo, Kiwibank, and Mox Bank.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Cloud-native architecture** – no legacy code, built from scratch for the cloud, enabling horizontal scaling, high availability, and continuous deployment.
- **Configurability via smart contracts** – banks can create any product without code changes, using a rich library of pre-integrated solutions.
- **API-first and cloud-agnostic** – gives banks flexibility to choose hosting provider and integrate with third-party services.
- **Trusted by top global banks** – many clients are also investors, demonstrating deep industry confidence.

## Strategic Focus
- Continuing global expansion into new territories and winning Tier 1 bank clients.
- Deepening the Vault Payments platform and expanding card/payment scheme support.
- Leveraging the Mastercard partnership to accelerate payments adoption.
- Maintaining product leadership and recognition in core banking (Gartner Leader).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “world-class in talent and technical ability” with a collaborative, inclusive, and transparent environment. Weekly town halls and CEO Q&A sessions every six weeks.
- **Social & perks**: Free food and drink in all offices, social clubs (wine & cheese, film, sports), sponsored fitness activities (football, basketball, running, climbing).
- **Recognition**: Named #1 Best Place to Work in New York City by Crain’s (2022, 2023) and Best Place to Work by American Banker.
- **Work policy**: Global offices with hybrid/office presence expected for most roles (engineering roles listed on careers page include many office-based positions). Flexibility not explicitly stated but typical for fintech.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on software design, scalable cloud infrastructure, and product excellence. Many engineers come from leading tech companies.

## Sources
1. [thoughtmachine.net](https://www.thoughtmachine.net/)
2. [thoughtmachine.net/about-us](https://www.thoughtmachine.net/about-us)
3. [thoughtmachine.net/life-at-thought-machine](https://www.thoughtmachine.net/life-at-thought-machine)
4. [thoughtmachine.net/meet-our-team](https://www.thoughtmachine.net/meet-our-team)
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/thought-machine)
6. [Careers Page (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thought-machine)

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