UK Public Policy Lead in London

TrueLayer is Europe's fastest-growing Pay by Bank network, powering smarter, safer and faster payments by combining real-time bank payments with financial and identity data. E-commerce, iGaming and Financial Services businesses use our products to onboard new users, accept money and make payouts in seconds, and at scale. We are live across 22 countries and have a new user joining TrueLayer's Pay by Bank network every 3 seconds, marking an exciting growth stage.

We are looking for someone to lead the development and implementation of public policy strategy in the UK, reporting to the VP of Policy & Research. The Policy Lead will need to influence regulators and Government on payments and open banking policy in a pivotal year for the sector, furthering the interests of TrueLayer.

As a UK Public Policy Lead you will:

• Work with TrueLayer teams to understand where rules and regulations create blockers or opportunities for TrueLayer, and build a strategy to influence those rules.
• Work autonomously on delivering against the UK public policy strategy.
• Build and develop relationships with key policy stakeholders across Government and regulators (HM Treasury, FCA, Payment Systems Regulator, Parliament, Bank of England).
• Maintain TrueLayer's reputation in the UK as a policy thought leader through writing reports, blogs, op-eds and press articles.
• Educate internal teams on the policy and regulatory horizon - incoming risks and opportunities.
• Represent TrueLayer at meetings, events, panels and to the press.
• Brief TrueLayer leadership for speaking events and meetings related to public policy.
• Feed into the development of TrueLayer's overall strategy.

About you:

• Proven track record of influencing policy makers and achieving results through advocacy.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of how Government, Westminster and regulators work.
• Ability to develop and execute project plans and track progress against them.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts in simple and effective ways to a range of different audiences.

We would be particularly excited if you have:

• Understanding of Payments Services Regulation.

Benefits:

• Meaningful equity in the company.
• Flexible hours and hybrid working.
• 24 days holiday as standard with flexible bank holidays.
• 12 fully-paid wellbeing days a year and your birthday off.
• 2 volunteering days to support causes important to you.
• 90 day 'work from abroad' policy.
• Generous parental leave, above and beyond statutory requirements.
• Competitive pension contribution at 4% & 4%.
• Private health insurance from the day you start.
• Life Insurance.
• Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill and premium Calm subscription.
• A £1000 budget to spend on learning & development each year.
• Free lunch from Just Eat when working from the office.

At TrueLayer, we embrace people that have different opinions, perspectives and personalities. We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups (e.g. people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from all socio-economic backgrounds). If you'd like to discuss alternative working patterns, please let us know.

We will always aim to make appropriate adjustments to ensure we are fully inclusive to people with different needs during our interview process. If you need us to make any adjustments to suit your individual needs please let us know - we'll be happy to support you.