Staff Product Manager, Crypto

Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator, offering a full suite of financial products. They are seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead their stablecoin strategy within the Crypto team, responsible for product strategy and execution to build and scale stablecoin utility.

Responsibilities:

• Set the product vision and roadmap for Wealthsimple’s stablecoin strategy within Crypto
• Partner with external players across infrastructure, payments, DeFi, and market ecosystems to unlock growth and utility
• Own the end-to-end product development process - from conceptualize, 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
• Act like an owner, not a coordinator — you’ll be expected to push work forward even when the path is unclear
• Help elevate the Product Management practice at Wealthsimple and create an inclusive and supportive team culture

Requirements:

• A track record of building and shipping products at scale that customers love, with most recent experience in Crypto
• 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