Lead Product Manager

In this role, you will:

• 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 

Skills we are looking for:

• 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.

Nice to have:

• 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.