Product Director
North America
Posted on 1/13/2023
INACTIVE
Wise

5,001-10,000 employees

International finance transfer service
Company Overview
Wise’s mission is to create a world with money without borders – moving it instantly, transparently, conveniently, and eventually for free. The company is committed to empowering money for people and businesses through their app and website that utilizes a complex engine of currencies and routes that is being designed and built by their teams across cities around the world.
Financial Services
Data & Analytics

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$1.7B

Founded

2011

Headquarters

, United Kingdom

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

8%

1 year growth

22%

2 year growth

91%
Locations
Austin, TX, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
SQL
Tableau
Marketing
Looker
Requirements
  • You want to work for a company you believe in its mission
  • You're passionate about building high quality products, working on big challenges and taking full ownership of the customer journey
  • You have experience in leading, hiring, coaching and mentoring driven individuals
  • You are able to get the team to dream big, align on a commonly agreed vision and draw a clear path to get there - enabling your team to solve complex problems by breaking them down into small iterative steps of incremental value
  • Empathy for customers and can quickly identify the problems worth solving, explaining your rationale with data (rather than assumptions and truisms)
  • Deep understanding (eventually) and curiosity for how the product is put together and passion for building the product (not marketing it, actually building it)
  • You're always learning. Whether it's interviewing customers, designing UIs, writing code or modelling growth, you're not afraid to roll up your sleeves and learn the skills you don't have today to unblock your team
  • You are hands-on and enjoy delivering features by yourself as well, as everyone in Wise still executes projects as well, starting from our CEO
  • Knowledge of the US and Canadian payment systems and fintech ecosystem
  • Ability to self-serve analytically - experience of using SQL, or BI tools like Looker or Tableau
  • You have worked with external vendors before and you feel comfortable negotiating with them
Responsibilities
  • Ensure our US teams are spending their time on the highest value (impact for customers) areas, sorting signal from noise where necessary
  • Unblocking execution across teams when it gets stuck (this means being close enough to the detail and the engineers, spotting problems before they take root, escalating or figuring out how to resolve)
  • Building conviction on those high value areas and challenging them if there are faster / more effective ways to grow the market
  • Helping to grow and scale product managers and teams
  • Hiring, onboarding new team members across the team
  • Working with other Wise leaders globally to achieve our Mission: Money without borders
  • Building a championship team. Fostering an environment of autonomy where everyone is encouraged to identify and prioritize customer problems and opportunities
  • Helping your team make data-driven decisions by providing feedback on architecture and approach
  • Raise the bar for the team to reach new heights of technical excellence