Staff Product Manager, Connectivity Platform

The role

The Staff Product Manager will own the Connectivity Platform, including Brokerage & Bank Linking and the Public API. You will set the strategy for how Wealthsimple connects to the financial ecosystem and how internal teams use external financial data.

What you will do

• Set the long term vision and strategy for how Wealthsimple connects with the broader financial ecosystem.
• Define capabilities to build internally versus relying on partners.
• Develop a roadmap balancing immediate needs with reusable platform capabilities.
• Own the end to end experience for connecting external bank and brokerage accounts.
• Improve connection success, reliability and coverage across institutions.
• Own the client experience for institution selection, authentication, errors, recovery and connection management.
• Drive reliability and AI Powered self-healing for connections.
• Balance conversion against fraud exposure and operational load.
• Develop platform capabilities for Wealthsimple products to consume external financial data.
• Own relationships and product integrations with connectivity vendors like Plaid and Flinks.

Required qualifications

• Experience owning a platform, API, developer product or integrations platform.
• Track record on metric-attached outcomes like conversion, success rate or reliability.
• Technical depth to work with engineers on APIs, authentication, data models, routing and platform architecture.
• Experience delivering through external vendors or partners.
• Comfort treating reliability as product work including error taxonomies, failure recovery, observability, and operational load.
• Experience weighing growth against fraud, risk and compliance.
• Ability to turn technical capabilities into a clear product strategy and long term vision.
• Strong analytical instincts and comfort using data to understand reliability, conversion, coverage and product performance.
• Excellent cross functional leadership across Engineering, Design, Security, Legal, Compliance, Operations and external partners.
• A bias toward simplifying complicated systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with open banking, Canada’s consumer-driven banking framework, or building to a data sharing standard
• A background in financial data aggregation, whether at an aggregator, a bank, or a fintech consuming one
• Experience shipping a public API or developer platform as a commercial product, including partner onboarding and support

Benefits

• Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
• 20 vacation days
• 4 wellness days
• unlimited sick and mental health days per year
• 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year

About the company

Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator, offering a full suite of financial products. The company serves more than 4 million Canadians and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.