Product Director
Leading North America
Posted on 4/4/2023
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're passionate about helping customers. They are at the heart of what you do and that empathy drives your decisions
  • You're passionate about building high quality products, working on truly impactful challenges and taking full ownership of the customer journey
  • You are hands-on and enjoy delivering features by yourself as well - You have a natural curiosity for how the product is put together and passion for building it (not marketing it, actually building it)
  • You can lead, inspire people and build teams - you can hire awesome talent and also get the best out of people. You have led and grown multiple product managersbefore directly. You are able to get the team to dream big, align on a commonly agreed vision and draw a clear path to get there
  • You have a clear playbook for prioritising work, helping the team understand impact and making an inspiring roadmap for everyone to follow
  • You're data-driven - You are able to prioritise the value you can add to customers, and get the entire company behind you telling a story with the data you have enquired
  • 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
  • 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
  • Experience in working with external vendors and negotiating with them
Responsibilities
  • Ensure our US teams are spending their time on the highest value areas (impact for customers), sorting signal from noise where necessary, truly understanding our customers and the impact our product has on their lives
  • You'll help teams focus, build and ship the features that make the Wise Account the best international banking solution in the US
  • 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
  • Building a championship team: helping togrow and scale product managers and teams
  • Fostering an environment of autonomy and openness where everyone is encouraged to identify and prioritize customer problems and opportunities and also, to share ideas
  • Not only helping your team make data-driven decisions by providing feedback on architecture and approach but also raising the bar to reach new heights of technical excellence
  • Hiring, onboarding new team members across the team
  • Working with other Wise teams globally to achieve our Mission: Money without borders
  • 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 leader - Grow and inspire your team and others across Wise
  • Get amazing exposure to the full breadth and depth of our product while working with a group of multi disciplinary teams of amazing, smart and dedicated product managers, engineers, analysts, researchers, designers and many more
  • The freedom to have real impact - The product you'll build is key to Wise reaching future millions of customers and redefining how payments work internationally at scale
  • Be part of our mission to make money without borders the new normal