Job Description

We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for a Product Director to lead our product development teams in the Asia/Pacific region, based out of our hub in Singapore. Wise is one of the largest and fastest growing global fintechs, and this role is an opportunity to shape the strategy and teams driving our product development in our fastest growing markets. You\xe2\x80\x99ll receive a competitive package including generous stock options and private healthcare amongst other benefits . Your mission:

• In the past few years, we\xe2\x80\x99ve launched Wise in 13 markets. We serve more than 1 million active customers, scaling quickly. Your mission is to lead product for the squad.
• You\xe2\x80\x99ll lead all of our APAC product teams, based largely in our product development hub in Singapore. Wise also has a physical presence in 10 other Asian countries (including Australia, Japan, China, India, etc).
• In collaboration with your teams, you\xe2\x80\x99ll have autonomous responsibility for making decisions on where and how Wise expands next in APAC, what problems to solve for which customers, how to prioritise, etc. You\xe2\x80\x99ll walk in the shoes of our customers and define what a great localised product looks like, building a seamless, intuitive product for each market.
• You will be responsible for hiring, developing, and supporting the product team. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also guide the wider organisation outside of product on the team we need to build great products for our APAC markets.
• You\xe2\x80\x99ll be one of the key drivers of our global expansion strategy. You\xe2\x80\x99ll work with our wider expansion tribe to raise the bar for our expansion globally.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Have a real, lasting impact on how global people move money around the world, in some of the most difficult and underserved markets in the world.
• Choose your own path to success \xe2\x80\x93 you\xe2\x80\x99ll have the freedom to define the vision and the responsibility for making it happen
• Be flexible in how and where you work, we understand everyone needs a little something different so we\xe2\x80\x99ll do our best to make it happen
• Travel to work with our teams globally, as well as meet various partners and organisations when needed
• Inspire teams with your ideas, knowledge and self-starting attitude

You may be a good fit if:

• You\xe2\x80\x99ve built products at scale \xe2\x80\x93 You\xe2\x80\x99ve worked on a product that grew to thousands or even millions of customers. You have experience growing an early stage company into something larger, but you\xe2\x80\x99re also able to navigate the product and organisational complexity of a product at scale.
• You have delivered complex products from end to end, collaborating across functions and getting the wider organisation excited about what you\xe2\x80\x99re building. If you\xe2\x80\x99ve done this in APAC, even better.
• You have led and grown teams of 6 or more product managers in the past, or similar. You excel at building strong, diverse teams.
• You are able to get the team to dream big. You are able to build consensus around a multi-year vision for APAC and do whatever it takes to get there.
• You\xe2\x80\x99re hands on and a strong individual contributor. You thrive as a player-coach. You are able to operate at many levels of detail, flipping between executing as an individual contributor and leading a wider team. Everyone in Wise still executes projects as well, starting from our CEO.
• You\xe2\x80\x99re always learning and do whatever it takes to make your product team successful. Whether it\xe2\x80\x99s interviewing customers, designing UIs, writing code or modelling growth, you\xe2\x80\x99re not afraid to roll up your sleeves and learn the skills you don\xe2\x80\x99t have today to unblock your team
• You have fresh ideas \xe2\x80\x93 You don\xe2\x80\x99t accept the status quo, but are interested in solving problems in novel ways. You are able to communicate the impact of those ideas and formulate plans to implement them

A bit about Wise: Since 2011, we\xe2\x80\x99ve had a clear mission: money without borders. Built by and for people who live global lives, we\xe2\x80\x99re the fairest, easiest way to manage your money across borders. We\xe2\x80\x99re just at the beginning of our story and we\xe2\x80\x99re growing at an incredible pace. We won\xe2\x80\x99t stop until anyone, anywhere can send, spend and receive money wherever they are, whatever they\xe2\x80\x99re doing. There\xe2\x80\x99s still heaps to do and we can\xe2\x80\x99t do it alone. Our People: At Wise, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be joining a movement of people who believe in a better, fairer, more transparent way of moving money around the world. You\xe2\x80\x99ll collaborate to do your best work and take on problems that no one has looked at before. If you\xe2\x80\x99re keen to learn, grow, try new things and aren\xe2\x80\x99t afraid of a bold plan, you\xe2\x80\x99ll fit right in. How we work: At Wise, our strategy emerges from the collective brainpower of all our people, who are organised in dozens of independent, autonomous teams. Teams stay closest to our customers, so they choose what problems to solve and where to spend the most time. You\xe2\x80\x99ll experience radical levels of ownership and empowerment within your role. Plus the opportunity to see the direct impact of your work on our customers. If you\xe2\x80\x99d like to understand our culture and product better, here\xe2\x80\x99s a few articles for you to read:

• Autonomous teams
• Product = people
• What\xe2\x80\x99s next for Wise
• Building conviction
• Anatomy of the founder interview.
  

We\xe2\x80\x99re people without borders \xe2\x80\x94 without judgement or prejudice, too. We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So if you\xe2\x80\x99re passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you\xe2\x80\x99ll fit right in. Also, where and what you studied isn\xe2\x80\x99t important to us. If you\xe2\x80\x99ve got great experience, the right skills for the role and you\xe2\x80\x99re great at articulating your thinking, we\xe2\x80\x99d like to hear from you. And because we believe that diverse teams build better products, we\xe2\x80\x99d especially love to hear from you if you\xe2\x80\x99re from an under-represented demographic. If you want to find out more about what it\xe2\x80\x99s like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs . Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram .