Rob Guard
Senior Director of Product @Pleo
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Director of Product @Pleo
London, GB
Strategic direction across 6 domains, positioning AI and agentic policy control as a core competitive moat to retain market leadership. Scaled team with 4 senior hires and introduced AI prototyping into the discovery process, accelerating solution design and time to market.* Launched an AI enforcement strategy achieving 91% accuracy automating the detection of anomalous spend, automating compliance for finance teams, and integrating into spend rules.* Drove the testing and usage of AI/LLM and agentic tooling for product discovery, extracting useful product validation from of weekly feedback insights, using agents to generate specific weekly updates dedicated to the focus of specific teams.* Pivoted the stagnant Accounts Payable and Vendor Management solution toward incremental value over a 90-day play in core markets, resulting in 28% reduction in net churn and reduced support load.* Overhauled delivery lifecycle from 6-month to 6-week cadence and drove AI tooling utilisation to increase teams’ discovery and delivery velocity.
EDUCATION
Worthing College
A-Level, Mathematics, Business Studies and Computer Science
Bournemouth University
BSc (Hons), Business Information Systems Management
SKILLS
ABOUT ROB GUARD
Chat with me! https://calendar.app.google/7wZBMbyB4evo3kJe6Grab my latest CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-9mHt6d6rfX5PtGQB6S21jJmZzzFOaV/view?usp=drive_linkHighly effective fintech executive with 15+ years of experience driving transformative product strategies that deliver substantial revenue growth in fast-paced start-up and scale-up environments. Proven record building and leading high-performing product, engineering, and design teams, spearheading the development and launch of innovative financial solutions across user experience (web/mobile), payments, credit, platform, and treasury. Expertise optimising user flows by leveraging data, insights and emerging technologies, including leading teams to identify thoughtful applications of agentic AI and LLMs that drive operational efficiency and generate growth through customer value.
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