VP Product
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: Product
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Executive
Industry: Financial Services
Function: Product Management
Company profile: Want to build a 21st century financial service?We're convinced that that there is a need for innovation in financial services and that current banks will not be the ones providing this. Instead this innovation will come from companies like TransferWise and we're on a hunt for great minds who think like we do.
Description: TransferWise is the clever new way to move money between countries. We've been going through a growth spurt recently - we've grown the business 10x in the past 12 months. And we don't intend to stop here. There is a gargantuan opportunity for building financial services that consumers care about and that deliver beyond expectations. We've been growing largely thanks to word of mouth and our service is highly praised by its customers (see #URL_52759560942065fbfc367cadd21d665f03350d4b43b44b1c28df81a518d77dad#). Now we're busy scaling ourselves to become a global leader in the space.Why TransferWise? We're seeing that there's a huge opportunity to rebuild financial services. The level of service offered by banks is completely unsatisfactory. We started by re-building one very specific service where we saw an opportunity to make a change. While we still have a very long way to go with money transfer we do think there's much more to be done in financial services in general. We're a small, international and agile team with a goal of flipping a gazillion dollar industry on its head and taking power away from banks and the establishmentWe're looking for a an experienced leader to join us and help to build out our product function. You should have experience with transactional/ecommerce products in consumer space and be obsessed with customer experience and understanding customers. With a track record of building high performance teams that have launched products with lots of delighted users.TransferWise is revenue generating and well funded by Sir Richard Branson, Peter Thiel, IA and Index Ventures. We're a team of 100+ people today, growing every day. Our focus for the next 18 months is growth, growth, growth.RESPONSIBILITIESOverseeing the day to day operation of our multiple cross functional teams, these teams are in charge of shipping our productsOwning the overall company product development roadmaps and working closely with the founders on thatEstablish and own short and long term goals/KPIs for product management and delivery based on business goals & strategy, customer feedback and operational dataHelp shape our product management culture and processes - how we drive products from engineering to delivery and work with product, marketing and salesBeing an equal partner with engineering, marketing and operations teamsCustomer engagement & market intelligence - making sure that customers are involved in our product development process through both quantitative and qualitative methodsContinue building a world class team of product management and UX/UI design leadersLeading our way into new adjacent product areas
Requirements: Senior product leadership experience in a fast growing company in transactional/ecommerce/fintech spaceExperience of successfully scaling processes, capabilities and building cross functional teams in fast growth environmentsyou have built something amazing before or turned good into amazingLove for data - you can back your analytical credentials by showing how you use data in decision makingExperience running multiple different product teams across a variety of productsinternational experience - lived/worked on a different continent/countryCross platform: web & mobile experienceExcellent communication skillsConsumer background, extra points of having SMB experience as wellHands-on leader who loves to roll up his/her sleeves and tirelessly focus on both the big picture and detailsExperienced with agile processesPrior experience as engineer or leader of engineering team(s) is a bonusGood eye for design, ux and overall customer experienceHigh degree of intellectual curiosity
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