Staff Product Manager, Managed

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Requirements:

• 10+ year track record of building and shipping products that customers love
• Experiencing owning a major project or domain, setting an inspiring product vision, and executing on a well-defined strategy to deliver results
• Experience as an individual contributor leading large, complex, cross-functional projects and managing 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 stakeholders to deliver impact in a fast-paced environment
• The ability to bring structure to ambiguity, simplify complex problems, and communicate insights and perspectives effectively, verbally and in writing
• Technical know-how to talk with engineers about architecture and technical considerations and a strong understanding of how design, product and engineering can work together to ship high-quality experiences quickly and at scale.
• Experience owning key business outcomes and reporting to executive leadership
• 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

Responsibilities:

• Set an ambitious product vision for one of Wealthsimple’s largest product domains
• Oversee the planning, development, and launch of new product experiences that drive the evolution of Managed into Canada’s leading investment platform
• Own the end-to-end product development process - from conception, planning, and prioritization, through development and launch
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, and stakeholders across the business, continuously raising the bar on quality, performance, and ambition
• Go deep with your technical counterparts to understand problems and dependencies and help guide the team to efficient and timely solutions to achieve your product vision
• Break down complex problems and ambitious deliverables into discrete phases that deliver value to clients and the business incrementally
• Talk directly to customers and plan and execute primary research to uncover problems, identify unmet needs, and validate potential solutions.
• Own key business outcomes and effectively communicate progress and results to R+D leadership
• Help elevate the Product Management practice at Wealthsimple and create an inclusive and supportive team culture.