Max Clayton Clowes

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Maker of products, teams, and ideas. I bring over a decade of experience shaping software and fintech products, from founding startups to directing product at scale. I build with equal care for strategy, usability, and nurturing talent and creativity.

References available upon request. You can see what people say about me here.

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Experience

Product Lead - Weavr

August 2025 - Ongoing

Weavr provides embedded finance infrastructure, letting any business plug regulated accounts, cards, and payments into their own products. Leading developer experience, I:

• Own the developer-experience roadmap across mobile and web SDKs, building the tools and docs that accelerate embedded finance integrations.
• Rebuilt Weavr's developer documentation from the ground up, restructuring the API reference and driving adoption through internal enablement and external promotion.
• Steered architecture and API design decisions including an OAuth 2.1 authentication overhaul, gateway refactor, and API reference restructure.
• Owned Apple Pay certification, establishing a repeatable wallet-provisioning process for embedder partners.
• Introduced Shape Up (fixed cycles + betting table), Architecture Decision Records, and a prioritisation framework, improving delivery predictability and reducing reactive firefighting.

Product Director - Codat

November 2021 - August 2025

Codat helps banks and fintechs build insights and automations with accounting, banking, and commerce data. Leading the service and platform teams, I:

• Defined and delivered product vision + strategy supporting clients for spend analysis and underwriting use-cases (inc. J.P. Morgan and other major banks).
• Delivered Codat's Link (↑2x conversion, driving data sharing for 100,000 SMBs), developer portal (↑40% MAUs), and award-winning docs (↑30% faster go-lives).
• Replatformed Codat, improving efficiency, supporting enterprise-grade client needs, and improving delivery pace (e.g. deploying new webhooks ↑5x faster).
• Built cross-functional teams and nurtured high-performing PMs, engineers, designers, and technical writers. Celebrated as a top PM and manager, promoted swiftly.
• Pioneered product excellence at Codat, including data-driven methods (supported by Amplitude).
• Led innovative projects inc. Codat's nascent AI & LLM work, new commercial models, and more.

My other experience includes co-founding Codogo, plus engineering at the NHS, Pollen, Workshare, and more. See my full CV.

Education

BSc (Hons) Computer Science, 2:1 - Durham University

2012 - 2016
British Computing Society accredited. Awarded Rising Star of Research.
Dissertation: The use of evolutionary AI in the balancing of competitive multiplayer games

Awards

• UK Technical Communication award, ISTC, 2024
• Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Award, 2017
• Rising Stars of Research Symposium Member, Durham University, 2016

About me

I'm a relentless maker. There's always a side project on the go, lately a trio of programming languages and a read-it-later app. I build by feel: instinct, test, rework, ship. I care as much about how a tool feels as what it does. I write about product and AI, and have spoken at Write the Docs London (twice) and React London.

Off-screen: board games, quizzes, cryptic crosswords, and cats. I run, climb, sing, and play several instruments.

The full CV has the complete record: every role, project, and award.