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Group Product Manager - Financial Services

Wave
Toronto, CAN
Full-time
Senior
Onsite
Discovered 1 months ago
Product managementFinancial servicesFintechPayments acquiring and acceptancePayment processingPlatform modernization

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Role overview

Leads Wave/SMB payments capabilities and broader financial-services experiences that help small businesses move, manage, and trust their money.

Leads Product Managers across payments acceptance and processing, platform modernization, risk and fraud mitigation, and future financial-services capabilities.

Balances platform stability, compliance, reliability, and customer trust with the long-term vision for an integrated small-business experience.

Product strategy and delivery

  • Define and own the Financial Services product vision and strategy for the small-business product suite.
  • Lead payments infrastructure modernization, reduce fraud exposure, resolve reliability gaps, and build customer trust.
  • Own uptime, reliability, and observability commitments for payments products and partner with Engineering and Data teams on stability SLAs.
  • Partner with Fraud/Risk Operations, Compliance, and Security on onboarding, underwriting, and fraud mitigation.
  • Integrate payments and financial-services workflows with Accounting and Tax products for an end-to-end small-business experience.

Business and team leadership

  • Align stakeholders across Engineering, Design, Customer Success, Finance, Risk/Fraud Operations, Compliance, Security, and Marketing.
  • Build business cases, assess financial impacts, define customer and business benefit OKRs, and use data to prioritize and measure product outcomes.
  • Identify AI opportunities in productivity, fraud detection, risk decisioning, operations, and customer experience.
  • Coach Product Managers, raise product-thinking quality, and foster cross-functional collaboration.
  • Drive operational excellence through retrospectives, coaching, and ongoing refinement of team processes.

Experience and expertise

  • 8+ years of product-management experience, at least 5 years in fintech, and 2+ years leading product teams at Group level or above.
  • Deep financial-services expertise, ideally including payments acquiring, acceptance, payment facilitation, fraud and risk controls, and processor or platform partnerships.
  • In-depth knowledge of financial-product onboarding, including KYC and KYB, and risk and fraud mitigation.
  • Experience with payment processor or platform partnerships and migrations at scale is a strong plus.
  • Proven record leading product teams and taking new fintech products from ideation through launch and scale.
  • Able to work within compliance, regulatory, and audit constraints while balancing customer and business outcomes.
  • Demonstrated judgment on high-leverage AI opportunities for productivity, risk and fraud decisioning, or customer experience.

Working approach

The role is a coach-player leadership position, combining senior stakeholder engagement with attention to operational and technical details.

The description begins with a flexible statement that people can do their jobs in different ways; no specific remote, hybrid, or onsite policy is stated.

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