Technical Product Manager - Data Platform
Wise
Technical Product Manager - Data Analytics Platform.
Wise is one the fastest growing companies in Europe, and we’re on a mission: to make money without borders the new normal. We’ve got 16 million customers across the globe, and we’re growing. Fast.
Current banking systems don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply.
So, we’re building a new one.
Our mission is to provide money without borders – instant, convenient, transparent, and eventually free. We are building the world’s first true multi-currency banking infrastructure which is based on robust foundations that evolve as the needs of our business and users change.
This role is a unique opportunity to develop your product skills and technical knowledge at a significant scale. By building a platform that enables our engineers to deliver new features with high quality even faster, your contributions will have a major impact on Wise’s mission.
The platform is a broad domain covering data, computing, networking, CI/CD, SRE, developer experience and much more. We expect our Technical Product Managers to have a deep ownership of the roadmap, product, and strategy for their teams. You will be responsible for driving the full lifecycle of product development, from conception through to successful delivery.
We are looking for an experienced technical product manager who can develop a product strategy and mindset for our analytics and data governance teams. As a Technical Product Manager for Data, you will be involved in:
Strategic Vision: You will own and drive the long-term strategy for our analytics platform, ensuring that it not only meets the current needs of the business but also anticipates and adapts to future challenges.
Stakeholder Collaboration: You will build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders and data users across the organisation, ensuring their needs and feedback are integral to the platform's development.
Fostering a Data-Driven Culture: You will lead and influence the continuous improvement of our data repositories, setting the vision for a unified, high-quality data ecosystem.
Alignment, Prioritization, and Outcome Measurement: You will utilise OKRs and agile methodologies to align your team's efforts with the broader strategic goals of the data platform.
Cross-Functional Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing: You will work closely with other Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and technical teams to ensure that our platform integrates seamlessly with other systems.
Here’s how you’ll be expected to contribute to our platform:
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the diverse needs of your stakeholders across the organisation.
- Define their problems and requirements, identify common areas of concern/benefit.
- Proactively identify, prioritise, and execute workflows that automate tedious and repetitive tasks.
- Collaborate with your engineering team to integrate with data discovery platforms, governance platforms, and analytics platforms.
- Break down and prioritise tasks by quantifying cost and effort against the benefit to the business and your customers.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure your priority decisions align with the strategic goals of the database platform team.
- Prioritise the development of self-service capabilities to improve the user experience of our analytics platforms.
About you:
- You have a passion for the entire product development lifecycle and a strong affinity for data.
- You are comfortable working across a broad range of technical domains.
- You are adept at understanding the trade-offs between different platform technologies.
- Comfortable collaborating with engineers and business users.
- Familiarity with Looker and Superset or other BI Tools.
- Enjoy deciphering complex domains and sharing that understanding.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Creativity in problem-solving.
- Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for stakeholders at all levels.
- Proficient in communicating your ideas.
- Adaptability to the dynamic nature of teamwork in a fast-paced environment.
- Some extra skills that would set you apart:
- Experience as a Data Product Owner.
- Some hands-on experience as a Data Engineer, Data Scientist or Analytics Engineer.
- Experience using or building data platform products.
- Experience working with large-scale data.
- Experience with data cloud warehouses, ideally Snowflake or Presto/Trino.
This role will give you the opportunity to:
- Never be bored: You'll get to work on an evolving set of problems.
- Learn your path to impact - we believe people are most empowered when they can act autonomously.
- Work with experienced product managers, engineering leads, engineers and analysts.
For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgment or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise, visit Wise.Jobs.
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