Light

People Operations

• Lead the People team: Hire and lead a commercially minded, analytical People team with exceptional emotional intelligence.
• Performance Reviews: Design and run a transparent, impactful process that helps high-performers thrive and keeps expectations clear.
• Compensation Strategy: Build and execute a compensation strategy designed to help Light win: competitive, fair and transparent.
• Talent Strategy: Lead Talent Acquisition team on an ambitious hiring plan to add ~60 people to the team across both departments and geographies (Europe and US) in the next 12 months.
• People Operations: Build scalable people processes including onboarding, employee support, and off-boarding.
• Leadership Partnering: Support Light’s leadership team with org design, people development, and building best practices.
• Culture and Starsite: Shape our culture, holding up a mirror to our leadership team.
• Employment Compliance: Ensure Light operates compliantly across multiple jurisdictions.
• Office management: Oversee office operations across Copenhagen, London, and New York.

Head of People

SDET

• Design and implement test frameworks, fixtures, and data management patterns.
• Build strategies for realistic, safe test data in a fintech context.
• Standardize how teams at Light write, run, and maintain tests.
• Build quality gates in CI/CD and implement test observability.
• Write tests in high-risk areas to model best practices.
• Coach engineers across all teams on test design and adopt new practices.
• Build evaluation frameworks for AI features for high confidence deployments.

Software Development Engineer – Test

Platform Engineer

• Architect the Engine: Design and build a production-grade Agent Runtime that handles tool registration, permissions, timeouts, and retry semantics for autonomous agents.
• Define the Standard: Evolve our internal GenAI Client and SDKs to create a "paved road" for product engineers, standardizing how every team at Light interacts with LLMs.
• Solve for Trust: Build the "CI/CD for AI", implementing reliability frameworks, golden datasets, and regression testing pipelines that allow us to deploy prompts and agents with confidence.
• Expand the Ecosystem: Lead the integration of Light with external platforms via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and automation tools like n8n.
• Governance & Scale: Design the guardrails, rate limits, and caching strategies that ensure our AI infrastructure scales predictably and cost-effectively.

AI Platform Engineer

Business Analyst

• Work with Product Managers to refine PRDs and make them engineering-ready. Identify gaps, resolve conflicts, document assumptions, and write clear acceptance criteria.
• Break features down into well-scoped backlog items that engineers can pick up and build with confidence.
• Work with PMs to understand customer requirements, and translate those into technical specs that account for critical edge cases and error states.
• Join customer calls when needed to.
• Partner with engineers to validate feasibility and refine requirements before work starts.
• Maintain clarity on what "done" looks like for every piece of work.

Head of People

Software Development Engineer – Test

AI Platform Engineer

Technical Business Analyst