We're looking for an experienced, data-focused Senior Product Manager to lead the platform team that powers all of the financial data behind Wealthsimple's products. Wealthsimple is a financial services company on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by providing products and advice that are accessible and affordable. Using smart technology, Wealthsimple takes financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and makes them simple, transparent, and low-cost.
With over 1 million people using Wealthsimple products, we are the market leader in Canada, and we’re fast growing in the US and UK. Our team is working together to build one of the most innovative fintech companies in the world and we're looking for talented people who want to help us move fast, ship often and make a huge impact. Join us on our mission to make financial services simple and affordable for everyone!
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About the Financial Data team Our team provides the ‘source of truth’ for all financial data across Wealthsimple products. We design and operate the platform that tracks all raw financial activity, and then processes and translates this data into a comprehensive and understandable summary for our clients.
As Wealthsimple expands its product offering, our team is constantly thinking about how we scale our systems and ensure financial data is always accurate, available in near real-time, and communicated to clients in a way they actually understand. Come join us as we power financial data at Wealthsimple!In this role, you will:
- Treat data like a product, rather than an input. You will oversee the full lifecycle of how financial data is created, consumed, and displayed to our clients.
- Set the platform vision and strategy. You will partner with front-end product teams to understand the new features they are building, and then determine how to evolve our back-end systems to meet these needs.
- Guide and support a team of engineers to help them achieve the right balance between enabling growth and ensuring a stable and accurate experience for our clients.
- Lead the planning, development, and launch of projects to related to our client’s financial data, for example:
- a) Building a system that leverages client's financial data to evaluate their trustworthiness
- b) Enabling the display of real-time data in our dashboards by shifting from daily transaction batch processing to instant processing
- c) Extending our financial data platform to handle multiple currencies
- Break down complex, behind-the-scenes projects into discrete phases that deliver value to clients and the business incrementally.
- Partner with other engineering teams and departments across the company (e.g. Customer Support, Portfolio Management, Finance, Operations) to ensure that the data we show is easily understood by clients.
- Establish and own a variety of metrics related to performance and uptime (e.g., data accuracy, data consistency, etc.).
- Help elevate the Product Management practice at Wealthsimple and create an inclusive and supportive team culture.
We’re looking for someone who has:
- A multi-year track record of building and shipping products that customers love. You’ve owned a complete product/platform or large parts of an offering and are comfortable leading large, complex, cross-functional projects.
- A shipping mentality. We don't believe in spending forever analyzing and debating. The best way to validate something is to ship it so let's ship it, learn, and iterate.
- Enough technical know-how to talk with engineers about architecture and technical considerations that impact a platform, and a desire to learn what you don’t know to help drive decision making.
- A passion for financial inclusion and building products that increase access to financial freedom for everyone.
- Bonus: You’ve helped set up and scale data platforms, and are passionate about the topic.
And someone who is:
- A systems thinker that can distill many use-cases into a simple, elegant, generic solution or platform.
- Able to navigate uncertainty and ambiguity and adept at synthesizing actionable problems, insights, and requirements from raw, unstructured qualitative and quantitative data.
- An excellent communicator that can convey complex or technical ideas succinctly and clearly.
- A naturally collaborative and empathetic leader comfortable working with a diverse group of stakeholders, making sure every voice is heard.
- Curious and inquisitive. You ask why? a lot. Like, a lot. A lot a lot.
At Wealthsimple, we embrace difference. We believe that getting to the best outcomes requires diverse perspectives and backgrounds. We create space where all voices can be heard so that we can all d