Description

Company Description
We’re looking for a Product Lead for our Screening product teams in London or Tallinn. 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.
Job Description
Your mission:
Champion the Screening product area and directly manage 2 Senior PMs
Our Screening product teams are responsible for designing and building effective Sanctions, PEP and Adverse Media controls and engines.
Work closely with a cross functional first line team including engineers, analyst, compliance experts
Represent the team in discussions with senior management, regional teams, 2LOD
Own KPIs, risks and issues across the entire domain
The team has product development hubs in London and Tallinn
The role reports into the Product Lead of Financial Crime
Qualifications
What we’re looking for:
Domain Understanding
Strong understanding of sanctions regimes and large scale screening engines
Good understanding of agile development practices, working closely with engineering teams
Experience with large scale remediation projects
Product Management Excellence
Product building experience, either as an engineering or product or operations leader in a hands on role
Willing to get your hands dirty and build products yourself. Typically will have a background that shows they have a superpower (engineer, designer, analyst, consultant, financial, serial entrepreneur, etc).
Have defined and moved KPIs
Have built roadmaps for teams finding a path from uncertainty/chaos to clarity
Leadership
Enthusiasm for the Wise mission is essential - empathy for the problem we are solving and the fire to build something with no precedent
Flexible in approach - not stuck to a “by the book” product head role definition.
Understands how to grow existing team members as well as hiring and onboarding team members.
Responsible for guiding product managers in the past. Usually will have done this in more than one company.
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 without an analyst
Nice-to-haves:
Audit experience
VSD & regulatory engagement experience
Experience with any large scale third party sanctions screening engine
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.