Wealthsimple
fintech
StaffProductManager,FinancialRisk
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“Staff Product Manager, Financial Risk at Wealthsimple. Skills: product management, fraud prevention, risk management, platform product management. Own the product vision and strategy for the Financial Risk platform. Drive the roadmap for the Decision Platform”
Industry & Context.
make sharp tradeoffs between friction and protection; use quantitative analysis to identify fraud patterns, measure intervention effectiveness, and prioritize investments
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
6-8+ years of product management experience with significant depth in fraud, risk, or trust & safety, Experience operating as a platform PM, technical fluency, Comfort with breadth, Data-driven decision making, Experience working with fraud operations teams, A shipping mentality, communication skills, Ability to work independently
What You'll Do.
Own the product vision and strategy for the Financial Risk platform
Drive the roadmap for the Decision Platform
Build and improve fraud investigation tooling and automations
Define and evolve the restriction and mitigation framework
Operate as a platform PM
designing extensible APIs
and integration patterns
Partner deeply with Fraud and Data Science teams on fraud model integration
fraud rule development
and the feedback loops that improve detection accuracy over time
behind-the-scenes infrastructure projects into discrete phases
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner deeply with Fraud and Data Science teams; collaborate with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates
Communication Scope
translate complex risk and platform concepts for engineering, operations, compliance, and executive stakeholders
Process & Methodology
Break down complex, behind-the-scenes infrastructure projects into discrete phases that deliver value incrementally
Full Job Description
BUILD SOMETHING PEOPLE LOVE Wealthsimple's mission is to help everyone achieve financial freedom – by making financial services simple, transparent, and low-cost. We're Canada's largest fintech, trusted by over 3 million clients with more than $100 billion in assets. We move fast, we own our work, and we care deeply about the people using our products. If that sounds like you, keep reading. We're proud of what we've built — and we're just getting started. Read our Culture Manual https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/culture and learn more about how we work https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/careers. About the team The Financial Risk team is responsible for protecting Wealthsimple and its clients from fraud while enabling safe, fast, and scalable money movement. We own the Decision Platform — a real-time rules engine that processes streaming data to make fraud decisions across every major payment rail — as well as the tooling and automations that power fraud investigation workflows, transaction decisioning, account restrictions, and deposit holds. Our systems are the infrastructure layer that payment and money movement teams plug into to move money safely. This is a platform PM role with a dual mandate: prevent fraud by building and tuning real-time interventions and decision rules, and enable fraud investigations by building automations and tooling that make our fraud operations team faster and more effective. You'll own a broad surface area — from the streaming decision engine that blocks fraudulent withdrawals in milliseconds, to the case management system that routes alerts to investigators, to the restriction and suspension frameworks that protect compromised accounts. What you'll do - Own the product vision and strategy for the Financial Risk platform, balancing fraud prevention with client experience - every intervention has a cost, and you'll need to make sharp tradeoffs between friction and protection. - Drive the roadmap for the Decision Platform, our real-tim
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