Senior Product Manager – Finance Platform
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We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our growing Finance Product Team in London. This role is a unique opportunity to have an impact on Wise’s mission by ensuring we build smart and scalable internal financial systems, grow as a product person and empower millions more people with instant, borderless money.
Your mission
- Develop the internal finance systems strategy, create an internal product roadmap to deliver a high data volume, scaleable, real time Financial System with an efficient data pipeline
- Own our internal finance systems and tools from a requirements and design perspective, working with our in house finance engineers
- Work with our finance engineering team to provide requirements and feedback on internal infrastructure solutions to make our internal finance systems more robust, efficient and scalable.
- Develop the roadmap and manage the well-groomed backlog of new platform initiatives and enhancements to existing implementations. Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations.
- You will own and track the plans and prioritizations for the team, set team KPIs, facilitate and build efficient processes for them to resolve cross-team incidents and retros
- Own finance team usage of off the shelf reporting systems such as Planful
- Coach, develop, support and lead 1-2 direct reports, grow the team across London and Tallinn if required
This role will give you the opportunity to
- Choose your path to impact – we believe people are most empowered when they can act autonomously. So rather than telling you what to do, you’ll work with your team to create a vision of your own. Of course, you can always gather feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but you’ll have the freedom to make your own calls
- Grow as a product person and a leader – Grow and inspire your team to join our mission
- Get amazing exposure to the full breadth and depth of our internal product finance systems while working with a group of amazing and dedicated product managers, engineers, analysts, and operations.
- Work with a modern microservices system with key parts written in-house, which allows to move fast and build controls and experiences that are above industry standards and push the boundaries of what is possible
- Be part of our mission to make money without borders the new normal
Things that might describe you
- You’re hands on, and you’d do everything needed to make the team and the product successful. You get it done
- You have experience in finance systems and familiarity with core principles of accounting & finance
- You are a seasoned Product Manager with experience managing end-to-end product development lifecycles from scoping to delivery and post production support
- You are equally willing to work on technical architecture, finance & reporting requirements and are able to shape and influence thinking on these point
- You enjoy getting deep into the processing logic. You like to be thorough and understand how things work and all their dependencies in-depth. You can channel this knowledge in bringing clarity to the team over complicated processes
- You inspire others. You can empower and mentor cross-functional teams with a vision and strategy for non-customer facing teams
- Data-driven – You can pick up the signal from the noise. You are comfortable to dig deep into data, explore and make decisions based on insights
- You’re familiar with SQL and can communicate big data / complex data sets clearly
- You’ve applied agile software development methodologies and tools before
Beneficial (but not mandatory) experience
- Previous experience in evaluating APIs and capabilities
- Passion for technical products and understanding of tech stacks used in software engineering
- Previous leadership experience
Our Offer
- Base salary:: £83k – £110k gross / year base (based on experience & interview outcomes)
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs): https://www.wise.jobs/2021/03/26/the-true-value-of-stock-in-a-high-growth-company-like-wise/
- Numerous amount of other benefits: https://www.wise.jobs/2020/07/07/benefits-in-our-london-office/
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We’re people without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So if you’re passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you’ll fit right in.
Also, where and what you studied isn’t important to us. If you’ve got great experience, the right skills for the role and you’re great at articulating your thinking, we’d like to hear from you.
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At this stage, our product recruiter and hiring manager will be reviewing applications, alongside cover letters (which are optional to submit) to narrow down the most excellent candidates based off your resume and answers to our application questions.
Pro tip: We ask application questions for a reason – because we at Wise are on a mission and this role is all about getting us closer to that mission – so please take this opportunity to show us who you are and why you’re a great fit! 📝 Please bear in mind when answering: customer impact is above everything for us.
A 40 minute call with our hiring lead or one our Product Managers or Recruiters from the team via Zoom.
Agenda:
- The team will intro you to Wise, their team and the role
- Your motivation / drivers to join the Mission
- Your experience of owning/ shipping impactful products, utilising build – measure – learn
- Testing your customer empathy
- Testing your quantitative, data-driven approach
- Competency based questions & values fit, focused on our 4 core values
Your 2nd interview will be with 2 product managers from the team. The 60 minute interview will take place over Zoom and will be competency based.
Agenda:
This interview will give you the chance to show us your product skills and abilities to solve meaningful customer problems. Topics:
- Your product domain experience: ownership of a complex, and impactful product / product feature
- Prioritisation and trade-offs: problems you solve for customers, how do you balance demands
- Your solution design & execution skills
- Digging deeper into your quantitative / data skills: measuring impact, setting OKRs / KPIs
Your 3rd interview will be with an engineering lead / senior engineer and an analyst/designer from the team. The 60 minute interview will take place over Zoom and will be competency based.
Agenda:
This interview will be focusing on your experience working closely with engineers and designers in a cross-functional team + your related skills. Topics:
- Building partnerships with your engineering / design / operations teams.
- Problem-solving and navigating tech decisions and conflicts with engineers
- Your level of technical depth
- Your cross-functional team-fit: your ability to inspire others around you
We’d like to give you the opportunity to meet a couple of our senior product leads. The Zoom interview will be 45 minutes long and will be competency-based.
Agenda:
- Providing you the opportunity to meet our product leads and pick their minds and ask your questions
- Competency-based and scenario based questions around your motivation, past product experience and vision to work at Wise, solving problems of our 10+ million customers
- Focusing on feedback you received from previous interviews, addressing/investigating potential gaps further
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