Lead Product Manager, Wealthsimple

Salary not provided
Senior and Expert level
Remote in Canada
Wealthsimple

Professional investing services made simple

Be an early applicant

Wealthsimple

Professional investing services made simple

1001+ employees

FintechB2CPersonal financeInvestingFinancial ServicesSocial Impact

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided
Senior and Expert level
Remote in Canada

1001+ employees

FintechB2CPersonal financeInvestingFinancial ServicesSocial Impact

Company mission

To help everyone achieve financial freedom.

Role

Who you are

  • 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

Desirable

  • 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

What the job involves

  • Wealthsimple’s product teams are responsible for shipping our award-winning products used by millions of Canadians. Our ambition is to help everyone achieve financial freedom by building world-class products that give Canadians better ways to invest, save, spend, and even file their taxes.
  • Our product teams own all aspects of client experience, including the underlying services and infrastructure that enable core experiences like onboarding, funding, data reliability and fraud prevention. We are early in our journey and are looking for passionate product managers to help us develop and execute strategies to disrupt finance services in Canada
  • 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

Our take

Wealthsimple is one of a crop of robo-advisors trying to democratize investment management. These companies are disrupting the industry by automating many of the processes involved in investment removing the need for human advisors.

But while other so-called robo-advisors are focused on courting the high end of the market, Wealthsimple is trying to provide the same types of tools and advice to all users, regardless of the amount they have to invest.

Wealthsimple does have higher fees than some other robo-advisors such as Betterment and Charles Schwab. However, the company believes that it provides a more user-friendly platform, tailored to millennials who will be attracted to Wealthsimple due to its ease of use and social impact offerings.

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Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-10% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

May 2021

$554m

LATE VC

Oct 2020

$87m

LATE VC

Total funding: $854.1m

Company benefits

  • Retirement savings matching plan through Wealthsimple Work
  • Company equity for full-time employees
  • Access to Premium Client perks, including personal finance learning & advice and a boosted interest rate on deposits
  • Paid parental leave (6 months topped up to 100% of salary)
  • 20 vacation days per year
  • 90 Days Away program
  • Top-tier health benefits
  • Life & disability insurance
  • Generous sick and mental health days
  • Employee resource plan including services like RMT, psychology, and physiotherapy
  • Up to $5,000 per year for mental health supports
  • Gender Affirmation benefits
  • Up to $1,500 per year for professional development
  • Up to $1,500 per year for wellness and home office expenses
  • Employee resource groups
  • Social impact hours

Company HQ

Fashion District, Toronto, ON

Leadership

Previously worked as a Business Analyst at McKinsey and then at Ancestry.com as Country Director for Canada.

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