Group Product Manager - Treasury Markets

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their life easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.

For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission.

Job Description

We’re looking for a Product Manager to join our Treasury Markets team in London. This role is a unique opportunity to have an impact on Wise's mission, and build the engine that powers the revolution, Money without Borders. 

Your mission: 

• Product Lead for Treasury Markets.

• You’ll identify high impact opportunities in FX P&L, trading costs, risk reduction, product/regional growth and sustainable interest income.

• You’ll be part of a cross functional team including Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, Risk & Controls, Operations and Dealing.

• You’ll help to discover the biggest problems and opportunities in Treasury Markets so that we can help more customers move more money across borders and solve more problems around money movement.

• You’ll solve these problems through technology, analytics, controls, and operations for our FX and Asset Management.

• The team has product development hubs in London and Tallinn, and operational hubs in Singapore, Austin, London and Tallinn.

• The role reports to the Product Director for Finance Tribe.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for: 

• Domain Understanding :

  • Understanding of the FX market with hands-on experience in trading environments and risk management. This could be in any role in trading or working closely with trading. 

  • Experience of financial markets technology stacks, for example: treasury management, asset management, banks or scale up fintechs.

  • Familiar with Market Risk metrics and controls. 

  • Familiar with middle office and back office operations for Treasuries and Financial Institutions.

  • Extremely familiar with FX Spot, FX Outrights and FX Swaps including end to end execution, and booking in trading and finance systems.

  • It would be great if you are familiar with cash management products such as money market funds, bonds, and the systems in this space.

  • Other financial instrument experience is nice to have but not required. 

• Product Management Excellence :

  • Multiple years of product building experience, either as an engineering or product or operations leader in a hands on role

  • Strong individual contributor, willing to get your hands dirty and build product yourself. You might have a background that shows you have a superpower (engineer, dealer, analyst, financial, serial entrepreneur, etc).

  • Hands on with data. You have defined and moved KPIs for an area, and done this multiple times

  • Have built roadmaps for teams finding a path from uncertainty/chaos to clarity 

  • Has experience of getting to grips with established systems and processes. And identifying the optimal improvements and the pathway. 

  • Have experience of building both in-house services and integrating with third party systems. 

• Leadership :

  • Enthusiasm for the Wise mission is essential - empathy for the problem we are solving and the fire to build something with no precedent.

  • Capable of influencing stakeholders across Wise including Global Product, Pricing, Regional and Risk.

  • Flexible in approach - not stuck to a “by the book” product lead role definition.

  • Understands how to grow existing team members as well as hiring and onboarding team members.

  • Responsible for leading product managers in the past

  • Enthusiastic about learning new skills to unblock yourself and your team. 

• Problem Solving 

  • Analytically-minded, can clearly frame problems, articulate hypotheses and solutions, measure them and has used the tools to be able to do this.

  • Capable of communicating technical or numerical concepts to a wide audience.

Additional Information

We’re people without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So if you’re passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you’ll fit right in.

Also, qualifications aren’t that important to us. If you’ve got great experience, and you’re great at articulating your thinking, we’d like to hear from you.

And because we believe that diverse teams build better products, we’d especially love to hear from you if you’re from an under-represented demographic.

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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