Jobs at The Very Group

Leads the colleague experience function across onboarding, offboarding, and the broader colleague lifecycle. Manages advisors and specialists, improves processes through data, feedback, automation, and self-service, and ensures operational compliance with employment legislation. Builds a continuous-improvement roadmap, strengthens governance and controls, and develops a high-performing team while partnering with stakeholders to deliver seamless, meaningful colleague experiences.

Manage and grow the Gaming category for a digital retailer by shaping commercial strategy, identifying opportunities, improving trading performance, and partnering with major gaming brands. The role requires analytical decision-making, stakeholder influence, continuous improvement, leadership, and a strong interest in gaming, technology, and digital entertainment.

Leads a large data engineering organization, including managers and lead engineers. Sets data engineering strategy, oversees cloud adoption, platform modernization, technical debt, and delivery of secure, scalable data products. Develops engineering leaders, recruits and retains talent, promotes modern engineering practices, and partners with product, architecture, delivery, and business stakeholders to align data capabilities with organizational goals.

Lead a team managing technology and home appliance brand partnerships across Very Media Group. Develop integrated retail media campaigns, secure partner investment, manage budgets and forecasts, coordinate internal and external stakeholders, protect brand standards, and measure campaign performance. Build strategic relationships with partners including Apple, Samsung, and SharkNinja while delivering commercial growth, customer value, and innovative multi-channel marketing campaigns.

Manage day-to-day execution for toy brands and product areas, including product setup, pricing, promotions, range development, performance tracking, and stock management. Monitor trends and emerging brands, maintain data accuracy, use forecasting and pricing tools, collaborate with Trading, Marketing, Supply Chain, Pricing, and Commercial teams, and build supplier relationships to drive category growth.

Translate solution architecture into detailed functional, technical, and interface specifications for logistics and fulfilment systems. Define data mappings, transformation rules, validation, error handling, and integration contracts across complex multi-system environments. Support engineering and QA throughout the SDLC, conduct impact assessments, maintain requirements traceability, and contribute to data governance and GDPR/PII practices. Collaborate with architects, product owners, engineering leads, and data specialists to resolve design ambiguities and improve delivery standards.

Design, evolve and operate the core cloud platform to improve developer experience, scalability, reliability and CI/CD. Build automation, tooling and integrations, troubleshoot complex systems, and guide teams to adopt modern engineering practices.

Owns the vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle of complex data products. Leads discovery, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, delivery, adoption, governance, and continuous improvement. Partners with data engineering, BI, governance, architecture, and delivery teams to create trusted data products. Establishes OKRs and success metrics, identifies opportunities involving analytics and AI, and coaches teams in product-led ways of working.

Leads enterprise data management strategy, standards, governance, quality, metadata, lineage, master and reference data, and lifecycle management. Partners with business and technology stakeholders to improve data trust, ownership, accessibility, and compliance. Drives adoption of frameworks, controls, tooling, stewardship models, and data management practices across complex environments while supporting transformation, risk remediation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Lead analytics strategy for Financial Services personalisation and optimisation. Drive A/B and multivariate experimentation, build segmentation and predictive models, measure performance, influence product and commercial decisions, and develop a high-performing analytics team while delivering actionable insights and dashboards to senior stakeholders.

Lead technical strategy and hands-on development for large-scale, customer-facing systems using Java and AWS. Drive architecture, CI/CD, quality, reliability and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product and Architecture to deliver scalable cloud-native solutions.

Own and evolve the product operating model to improve prioritisation, governance, tooling, reporting and delivery across product, engineering, UX, data and commercial teams. Drive portfolio planning, value-focused investment decisions, and coach teams on product best practice. Act as Product Manager for the Personal Loans proposition and embed controls to meet regulatory requirements.

Lead the Data function to set strategy, governance and platforms; build and develop a high-performing team; partner with senior stakeholders to deliver trusted insights, enable data-driven decisions, and drive commercial outcomes across retail operations.

Provide commercially focused legal advice on UK financial services and consumer credit law, support regulated product design and lifecycle, draft and negotiate FS and commercial agreements, manage regulatory change and regulator engagement, lead incident/complaints remediation, instruct external counsel, and mentor junior lawyers.

Lead strategies to personalize financial services offers, leveraging data and machine learning. Manage a high-performing analytics team and ensure clear product performance measurement.

Lead and line-manage an engineering squad in Financial Services, providing technical leadership across design, implementation, assurance, and operations. Drive team development, balance technical debt with product priorities, ensure security, reliability, scalability and operability, and collaborate across architects, product and engineering communities to deliver the roadmap.

Lead group strategy and five-year planning, partner with CEO and Executive Committee to evaluate opportunities, translate strategy into measurable plans, drive performance and resource prioritisation, and lead a team of Strategy Managers to embed customer-focused, evidence-based decision making across the organisation.

Lead The Very Group's multi-year AI strategy, prioritising and translating AI opportunities into measurable business value. Work with senior leaders to identify use cases, build business cases, deliver scalable solutions, drive adoption, define success metrics, and embed new ways of working across teams to ensure AI improves customer outcomes, colleague experience and commercial performance.

Hands-on Principal Data Engineer providing technical leadership across data platform initiatives: design scalable cloud-native data architectures, implement complex data engineering solutions, optimise performance/cost, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product and Architecture to drive platform roadmap and incident resolution.

The Vulnerability Manager leads coordination and risk management for vulnerability activities, oversees security penetration testing, and develops the vulnerability management team.