Product Lead - Financial Crime Platform

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.

Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.

For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

At Wise Is Dedicated To Enhancing The Scalability, Efficiency, And Quality Of Wise Operations. We Aim To Minimise These Three Things

• Develop a robust framework for generating and distributing work across all operations, ensuring tasks are assigned to the right person at the right time.
• Create tools and frameworks that empower teams to design their specific workflows, accelerating time to market and offering customisable complexity.
• Establish a comprehensive reference for a 360‑degree view of customer data, enabling our operations to swiftly identify and address issues.

Our squad consists of approximately 30 skilled professionals, organised into three cross‑functional teams, all focused on reducing handling time, increasing automation, and minimising friction through innovative technology.

As the Product Lead of the Financial Crime Platform Squad, you will lead a dynamic and cross‑functional squad with three teams.

• Lead the Financial Crime Platform Squad in initiatives aimed improving our platform
• Collaborate closely with Product, Analytics, Data Science, Operations, and Compliance teams to integrate improvements across the product lifecycle.
• Oversee the execution of key projects, including standardisation of all compliance and risk processes, consolidation of tooling and adjacent functions (QA, WFM, an moreI)
• Provide strategic direction while being hands‑on in project leadership and execution.

• Build world‑class products with a world class product and engineering team:
  The role is a unique opportunity to build innovative, state‑of‑the‑art solutions. It’s also an opportunity to work with some of the smartest product thinkers in the world.
• Make a real impact on people's lives - by building world‑class products you will be able to make a change on real people and how they relate to international transfers - how they pay, hold and receive funds internationally - helping people to make the best use of their money across the region. Directly impacting Wise's mission zero by reducing the cost of servicing, opening a way to decrease our prices.
• Empower people to make decisions - we want people closest to the problems to drive solutions. So rather than telling you what to do, you’ll work with your team to create a vision of your own. Of course, you can always gather feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but you’ll have the freedom to make your own calls.
• Grow as a leader
  - You will build and inspire your own team, but also other teams to contribute to our mission.
• Being a key connection between global and regional product teams and operational teams. Interacting with almost all product teams at Wise, gaining a deep understanding of all of our products.

• You’ve built products at scale – You’ve worked on a product with thousands or even millions of customers. You’re able to navigate the product and organisational complexity of a product at scale.
• You have leadership experience – You’ve led product teams before, and have experience hiring and growing the team. You have hired product managers of different seniority levels (IC and Lead level) and successfully onboarded them.
• You’re hands on – 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. You have a superpower as an individual contributor, whether it’s going deep on data analysis, design, regulations or engineering.
• You’re data‑driven – You are able to self‑serve with data, and use it to both identify opportunities and measure your…