Remote Lead Product Manager

Summary

Join Wealthsimple, a fintech company in Canada, as a Product Manager to help achieve financial freedom for everyone by building world-class products. You will set an ambitious product vision, oversee the planning and launch of new experiences, collaborate with teams, and lead business outcomes.

Requirements

• 7+ year track record of building and shipping products that customers love
• Experience leading product teams to delivery large, complex cross-functional projects and manage multiple dependencies
• A shipping mentality - a proven track-record of making trade-offs in scope to deliver impact, test hypothesis and establish strong client feedback loops, quickly
• Experience leading qualitative and quantitative research, including large-scale client research, to uncover insights and shape the direction of product roadmaps
• Strong bias to action and the ability to set the tone for teams and stakeholders to deliver impact in a fast-paced environment
• Enough technical know-how to talk with engineers about architecture and technical considerations that impact a product and a desire to learn what you don’t know to help drive decision-making
• Curiosity and a thirst for learning. You dig deep into any problem you encounter until you’ve cracked the nut on what’s really important. You ask “why?” a lot. Like, a lot
• Analytical skills to pull your own data, analyze it, and draw meaningful insights from it
• Discerning taste for what constitutes a great product experience
• Proven ability to turn complex problems into simple experiences
• Strong understanding of how design, product and engineering can work together to ship high quality experiences quickly and at scale
• Ability to effectively communicate ideas and project direction to internal teams and stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Set an ambitious product vision for your product domain
• Oversee the planning, development, and launch of new product experiences that continuously raise the bar on quality, performance, and ambition
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, and stakeholders across the business
• Break down complex, behind-the-scenes projects into discrete phases that deliver value to clients and the business incrementally
• Lead the planning, prioritization, development, and launch of products and features
• Establish and own a variety of metrics related to performance and client outcomes
• Help elevate the Product Management practice at Wealthsimple and create an inclusive and supportive team culture
• Talk directly to customers to uncover problems, identify unmet needs, and validate potential solutions
• Own key business outcomes and effectively communicate progress and results to R+D leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working at a high-growth startup or as an entrepreneur
• A deep interest and passion for personal finance and how we might build simpler, more accessible services for everyone

Benefits

• Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
• 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
• Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
• 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year
• A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
• Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year