Staff Product Manager, Connectivity Platform

Wealthsimple is a Canadian financial technology company offering investing, trading, cryptocurrency, tax, spending, and saving products. The Staff Product Manager will own the Connectivity Platform strategy across brokerage and bank linking and the Public API, driving reliable, scalable connectivity, client experiences, partner integrations, and external financial data access.

Responsibilities:

• Set the long term vision and strategy for how Wealthsimple connects with the broader financial ecosystem
• Define the capabilities we should build ourselves, where we should rely on partners, and where we can create differentiated client value
• Develop a roadmap that balances immediate product needs with investments in reusable platform capabilities
• Own the end to end experience for connecting external bank and brokerage accounts to Wealthsimple — automated and manual, including how clients recover when an automated connection fails
• Improve connection success, reliability and coverage across institutions, and own the routing strategy that decides which connector handles which institution and flow
• Own the client experience, including institution selection, authentication, errors, recovery and connection management
• Drive reliability and AI Powered self-healing so connections detect and recover from failure without manual intervention
• Balance conversion against fraud exposure and operational load, making those tradeoffs deliberately with our risk and operations partners
• Develop the platform capabilities that allow Wealthsimple products to consume external financial data consistently
• Own relationships and product integrations with connectivity vendors such as Plaid and Flinks, and decide where our own connector should lead — including how much of the connector business Wealthsimple should be in long term and where it makes more sense to partner
• Own the strategy and roadmap for Wealthsimple’s Public API and external data connectivity
• Make it safe and easy for clients to permission their Wealthsimple financial data to the products and services they choose
• Define the platform capabilities required for authentication, consent, permissions, data access and partner integrations
• Identify and prioritize the partners and use cases that matter most to Wealthsimple clients
• Build toward a world where Wealthsimple is the financial institution where clients have the most control over their financial data
• Accelerate wealthsimple and our industry toward open banking

Requirements:

• Experience owning a platform, API, developer product or integrations platform, with a track record on metric-attached outcomes like conversion, success rate or reliability — not only feature delivery
• Enough technical depth to work closely with engineers on APIs, authentication, data models, routing and platform architecture
• Experience delivering through external vendors or partners whose roadmaps you don't control, including making thoughtful build versus buy decisions and holding vendors accountable for product outcomes
• Comfort treating reliability as product work — error taxonomies, failure recovery, observability, and the operational load a product creates
• Experience weighing growth against fraud, risk and compliance, and holding both sides of that tradeoff
• The ability to turn a collection of technical capabilities into a clear product strategy and compelling long term vision, and to make the case for investing in it
• Strong analytical instincts and comfort using data to understand reliability, conversion, coverage and product performance, including building the measurement where it doesn't exist yet
• Excellent cross functional leadership across Engineering, Design, Security, Legal, Compliance, Operations and external partners
• A bias toward simplifying complicated systems rather than layering more complexity on top of them
• Experience with open banking, Canada's consumer-driven banking framework, or building to a data sharing standard
• A background in financial data aggregation, whether at an aggregator, a bank, or a fintech consuming one
• Experience shipping a public API or developer platform as a commercial product, including partner onboarding and support