Rob MacDonald

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Director of Product at Lloyds Banking Group · compliance, underwriting

Lloyds Banking Group
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
12+ years experience
Imperial College London
English
Co-founder
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Overview

I've spent 16 years on lending - first at NatWest, now at Lloyds Banking Group. Ran 49 customer interviews before writing the first spec. Before that: Booking.com and Indeed. Most at home with product strategy and compliance. I coach a junior basketball team.

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  • People who want to build this with me
  • Second opinions on compliance decisions
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Skills
underwritingcreditproduct strategycompliance
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need a go-to-market co-founder: code review in India and SEA

The idea
Code review in India and SEA
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
10 years in lending
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
London or remote

I bring 16 years of lending (currently Lloyds Banking Group). Ideally you've run operations in MENA. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

London, UKcomplianceunderwritingproduct strategy
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Product
    Apr 2025 - Present
    Lloyds Banking Group · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Launched the lending product in 10 markets.
    • Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new lending customers from 17 days to 4.
  2. Group Product Manager
    Dec 2021 - Apr 2025
    Booking.com · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new lending customers from 11 days to 2.
    • Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
  3. Principal Product Manager
    Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
    Indeed · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Backed 25 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
    Rolls-Royce · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new lending customers from 18 days to 4.
  5. Product Manager
    Mar 2015 - Oct 2017
    NatWest · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Ran 175 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Grew lending revenue from $5 million to $54 million ARR.

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Education

  1. Imperial College London
    MEng, Design
    2011 - 2013
  2. London School of Economics
    BSc, Design
    2007 - 2010

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