Who you are
- Have 3+ years of product management experience and hands-on engineering background (you’ve shipped production code) or direct PM ownership of a developer experience, or developer productivity function
- Proven success in overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle, such as user research, design, implementation and evaluation
- Speak fluent English
- Have proven experience with successfully rolling out AI-based solutions in a larger org
- Have skilled experience in a consumer fintech company
- Resonate deeply with how we do product and have experience working that way
- Are continuously iterating on using AI in real workflows with honest evaluation
- Are a strong communicator who can inspire and lead by influence
- Are great at coordinating across teams and excel at communicating across multiple cultures
- Take ownership for outcomes and do whatever you can to make them close to inevitable
- Have strong instincts for asking questions that could move the needle
- Have the courage and persistence to replan when feedback or new information arrives
- Always listen with empathy but ruthlessly prioritize based on impact
What the job involves
- Your mission is to make it dramatically easier for our engineers to ship features and learn from them quickly, securely, and reliably. You'll aim for small-startup speed while meeting the quality bar of a large financial institution. Velocity here means removing friction and toil from the path between idea and learning, not asking people to work harder
- AI is a big part of the opportunity, and we're looking for a PM who is optimistic about its possibilities but pragmatic about what actually works. The goal is not to adopt the latest shiny AI tool; it's to deeply understand your internal users, experiment, and honestly evaluate what solves their problems, whether that's AI, process changes, or boring tooling that just works
- Lead a team of engineers with full ownership of how we deliver new features for our users and use AI solutions to remove impactful friction for our engineers and product managers
- Define product goals, metrics, and roadmaps based on user needs and mission impact
- Drive user research within our engineering and product teams
- Write clear, compelling design docs and facilitate async, fast-moving decision-making
- Over-communicate context, priorities, and decisions to ensure team alignment
- Adjust priorities quickly based on feedback, experiments, or recent learnings
- Solve problems holistically, whether through product features, ops tooling or process changes
- Own the developer experience holistically, including any internal or external tooling needed to support it
- Research and implement solutions for how we can use AI to remove engineering and development friction
- Build your own prototypes to test ideas where possible
- Relentlessly gather feedback (by talking to users and looking at data) to deeply understand the problem space and our engineers' and product managers' needs
- Work from first principles to understand the engineers' and product managers' biggest problems and then figure out how our tooling should work to solve those problems
- Prioritize the biggest problems blocking the engineers' and product managers' productivity and the impact on delivering value to our users fast and securely
- Directly manage the DevEx team to help them grow in their careers, partnering with the Tech Lead, who will own the technical bar
The application process
- Fill out the form below, and upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role
Benefits
- Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents (vary from country to country)
- 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
- Retirement contributions (vary from country to country)
- Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries
📌 Technical Product Manager (Canada)
🏢 Wave
📍 Canada