Product Director - Financial Crime Platform

Wise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company based in Greater London is seeking a Product Director for its Financial Crime Platform. This role will involve leading a cross-functional squad to enhance product offerings, collaborating closely with analytics, data science, and operations teams. The successful candidate will have experience building products at scale, strong leadership skills, and a data-driven mindset, helping to innovate solutions that make international money transfers easier for users around the globe.

Qualifications

• Experience building products at scale with thousands of customers.
• Leadership experience in hiring and team growth.
• Ability to operate at various levels, both as a leader and contributor.
• Skilled in using data for decision-making and storytelling.
• Innovative thinker with fresh ideas to solve problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Financial Crime Platform Squad to improve the platform.
• Collaborate with various teams for product lifecycle enhancements.
• Execute key projects focusing on compliance and risk processes.
• Provide strategic direction while being hands-on in execution.

Skills

Leadership

Data-driven decision making

Product management

Communication

Problem-solving

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

**Please note, applications will be reviewed from the 8th January**
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.

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

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• 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.

Qualifications

A couple of skills that might describe you as a Product Lead:

• 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 impact. You can get the entire company behind you by telling stories with data.
• You have fresh ideas - You don’t accept the status quo, but are interested in solving problems in novel ways. You are able to communicate the impact of those ideas and formulate plans to implement them

Additional Information

Leading at Wise

Our 4D leadership framework, defined by four key attributes, captures what it means to be an impactful leader at Wise. Our unique culture gives teams and individuals the autonomy to make impactful decisions for our customers. Leaders empower their teams to deliver this impact and champion our culture.

Design: Our leaders design the strategic direction, empowering their teams to operate autonomously and make data‑driven decisions that directly benefit our customers.

Drive: They drive a high‑performing culture by acting as a coach, nurturing an environment of continuous development and growth.

Develop: Leaders actively develop resilience and emotional intelligence to lead authentically and by example.

Disrupt: They disrupt the status quo by championing change and innovation, constantly seeking new ways to achieve our mission.

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visitWise.Jobs .