Early Career, Programme Manager

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.

About this role: This is a high-impact role at the strategic heart of our future talent engine. We are looking for an innovative, globally-minded Early Careers professional to be the face, voice, and leader of our NextGen brand. In this role, you aren't just a program manager; you are a brand ambassador, a community builder, and an operational architect. We are seeking a product-minded problem solver who is excited to lead our foundational programs, design top-tier university partnerships, meet the brightest emerging talent, and define what global excellence looks like. Based in our London HQ, you will set the global standards and frameworks that ensure our early careers talent thrives consistently across all our international hubs.

What you’ll be doing?

• Driving our Global NextGen Brand: You will be the primary custodian representing our early careers brand in the market. Your goal is to establish us as the top global choice for ambitious students and graduates through creative events, digital engagement, and immersive experiences.

• Architecting University Partnerships: You will design, build, and oversee high-quality, targeted university partnership frameworks to extract top-tier talent internationally. This goes beyond traditional career fairs; it is about creating deep, long-term strategic links with core global faculties and career centers.

• Creating Multi-Region Talent Pipelines: You’ll be responsible for scaling and nurturing diverse, high-performing candidate pipelines across our key global entities, ensuring a standardized yet culturally adaptable approach to discovering future leaders.

• Designing Global Recruitment Strategies: You’ll spearhead the creation of high-quality, standardized recruitment and assessment processes. This includes designing cutting-edge, centralized assessment centers and ensuring a flawless, world-class candidate experience globally.

• Managing the End-to-End Program Lifecycle: You will take global ownership of the entire Early Careers journey, ensuring programs run seamlessly from initial application configurations to program graduation and permanent team placement.

• Enabling Global Managers & Nurturing Hubs: A great program needs world-class support. You will build toolkits, frameworks, and training modules to enable international hiring managers to effectively mentor, manage, and accelerate early-career talent on the ground.

• Cross-Functional & Regional Collaboration: You will partner closely with regional Talent Acquisition stakeholders and People Partners worldwide to ensure local programs align beautifully with our global standards while matching regional business operational structures.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Ambitious & High Energy: You don’t just want to execute a playbook; you want to build a legacy. You bring a high level of energy, urgency, and passion to everything you do, motivated by making a lasting impact on young careers.

• Master of Global Stakeholder Management: You excel at building trust and navigating diverse perspectives across international leadership teams. You can align corporate objectives with regional nuances to ensure universal program buy-in.

• Creative & Forward-Thinking Architect: You challenge the status quo of traditional graduate schemes. You bring fresh, innovative ideas to talent attraction, and you are excited to embed emerging tools (like AI literacy and automated skills mapping) into the program structure.

• Natural Networker & Community Builder: You genuinely love connecting with people. You are naturally skilled at inspiring a room full of graduates, managing corporate relationships, or collaborating with academic deans.

• Data-Driven Problem Solver: You treat talent acquisition as an optimization problem. When you detect process friction, pipeline bottlenecks, or retention gaps, you proactively design structural, measurable solutions.

• Collaborative Global Spirit: You thrive in a borderless environment, working seamlessly with international teams to deliver localized impact backed by global alignment.

Why join:

This is a unique opportunity to fundamentally own and scale a world-class NextGen brand from our global headquarters. You will enjoy the autonomy to innovate locally in London while steering the strategic direction of a supportive, global team. If you are passionate about defining how the next generation of global fintech talent is discovered and developed, we would love to meet you.

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.

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