Isabella Richardson

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Chief Product Officer · Payments · pricing

Onyx Systems
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
13+ years experience
University of Warwick
English
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Overview

Chief Product Officer at Onyx Systems, focused on payments. Ran 182 customer interviews before writing the first spec.

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  • Unpaid work or spec projects
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Skills
fraudproduct strategySQLpricingcheckout
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Building out payments at Onyx Systems: product managers wanted in London

Role
Product manager
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$173k-$203k
Team
Payments, 8 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with SQL Production experience with pricing Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp £84k-£149k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

London, UKcheckoutproduct strategysql

Experience

  1. Chief Product Officer
    Jan 2023 - Present
    Onyx Systems · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Launched the payments product in 13 markets.
    • Took payments activation from 35% to 56% in three quarters.
    • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
  2. Principal Product Manager
    Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
    Barclays · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Backed 35 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 32 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
  3. Group Product Manager
    Jun 2018 - Feb 2021
    BP · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Grew payments revenue from $9 million to $26 million ARR.
  4. Senior Product Manager
    Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
    Rolls-Royce · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Killed 5 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
    • Took payments activation from 19% to 41% in three quarters.
  5. Associate Product Manager
    Feb 2014 - Aug 2016
    Ryanair · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Ran 78 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.

Projects

Payments benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing checkout and fraud on real workloads.

Write-up: payments in practice
2022

A long-form guide to payments for people starting out.

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Education

  1. University of Warwick
    BSc, Economics
    2005 - 2008

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