Senior Product Manager - MEA

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.

More about our mission and what we offer.

The MEA team is responsible for 70+ potential markets. We’ve seen strong growth, and you, as the Product manager, will be the driving force behind the next wave of expansion responsible for: 

• Strategic Market Expansion & Commercial Ownership: Identify, size, and prioritise new markets and product use cases across the MEA region. You will own the P&L inputs and drive the end-to-end go-to-market strategy, from regulatory scoping to launching and scaling services to ensure customer value and clear differentiation. 
• Product Localisation & Customer Convenience: You will become the product domain expert on customer needs and local financial regulations. Balancing going deep into regulator requirements and licensing obligations whilst driving deep product localisation to offer superior convenience to our customers. 
• Scalability & Resilience: You will define and build scalable controls and infrastructure that expand seamlessly as your product footprint grows. This involves designing resilient systems and processes (KYC, AML, fraud prevention) that comply with diverse local regulations and mitigate risk. Your focus is ensuring rapid expansion is achieved without sacrificing safety, compliance and resilience of the Wise platform. 

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Choose your path to impact. We believe people are most empowered when they can act autonomously. 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 while being accountable for your decisions.
• Build money without borders for MEA. You will be building a product that helps billions of customers and businesses send and receive money across the globe, unblocking their ability to fully benefit from Wise’s mission of money without borders. Your primary focus will be to go deep into local customer demands and regulations to unblock the core wise product, making it fully available and compliant in markets currently underserved by global finance. 
• Be on the forefront of solving a complex technical challenge. The MEA region presents unique complexity in scaling our infrastructure. As the PM, you will be at the forefront of this technical challenge, allowing you to flex your creative muscles to solve global 

About you

Strong analytical skills

• You have experience of making data-driven decisions in complex situations.
• You are comfortable working with analysts and give them useful feedback on their analysis.
• Plus: You are comfortable analysing large datasets to draw insights on their own without analyst support.
• Plus: You are comfortable querying databases to pull data you need at speed yourselves. You are able to do this under pressure and with confidence.

Technical skills

• You are comfortable working with engineers and earning their trust.
• You are able to regularly unblock engineers in their decisions and have confidence to suggest alternative solutions.
• You have a decent understanding of the engineering development process and be able to spot when engineers need help and unblock them proactively.

Structured thinking and communication

• You are able to structure an ambiguous problem into clear actionable steps. 
• You proactively work in collaboration with the team - ops/banking/engineers etc to break down and structure problems rather than working in isolation.
• You are comfortable solving problems in unstructured complex situations. You should be able to carve out a clear path in seemingly chaotic situations.
• You are able to build relationships with people in the organisation both within and outside the squad to get support for their team. 
• You are able to inspire the organisation about their plans and vision.
• You are able to create a positive working culture within their team - engg, banking, ops etc. You should make sure you incorporate valid feedback and ideas of their team instead of unilaterally making decisions for them. The team should feel inspired to work with them.
• Plus: If you have experience working and negotiating with external partners.

Entrepreneurial/ Hustler

• You have a track record of getting things done. 
• You feel comfortable taking on complex projects requiring support from different teams and functions and getting them to the finish line. 
• You are able to navigate the organisation and find creative ways to unblock themselves and their team. 
• In case of limited resources, you instinctively jump hands on into whatever task the team needs their help with. (e.g. when you don’t have a designer, you open Figma yourself).
• You do not get boxed into existing assumptions about problems you are solving, team structures and situations and feel comfortable challenging them to drive impact.

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.

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