Product Manager

• Role: Product Manager
• Contract: Permanent
• Location: Flexibly remote within the UK
• Salary: £48,400 - £65,000
• Benefits include: 25 days holiday, a paid day off for your birthday, 10% matched employer pension, private medical insurance, company bonus scheme, and many more listed below...About Wealth Wizards

At Wealth Wizards our vision is a future where everybody in society has access to financial advice and guidance. In the UK, 4.5 million adults receive financial advice annually out of total addressable market of 35 million. We want to change this, reducing the 'advice' gap.

Our Software as a Service (SaaS) platform provides engaging digital experiences for consumers and powerful tools for financial advisers.

We welcome individuals from all walks of life and strive to build a culture where all voices are heard, differences are embraced, and everyone has equal access to opportunities. We encourage applications from individuals of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, and backgrounds.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made during the application or interview process, please let us know, and we will be happy to help.

About our teams

Our cross-functional teams build, refine and support a set of products and services that help our clients and their customers to better understand their finances and to make better more informed decisions around their money. We work autonomously but collaboratively to solve problems for each other and our users - prioritising small and iterative developments over large complicated projects.

Our newly formed Equity Release team will be responsible for managing the design, build and optimisation of our new Property Wealth digital product set. It will play a key role in delivering our mission of helping customers better understand their financial picture and make property wealth a mainstream part of retirement planning.

What you can expect at Wealth Wizards

• To be part of team of experts with a broad range of backgrounds and industry experiences who are committed to our mission
• Opportunity work with a range of clients on solving interesting and valuable problems - where the product makes an impact on a societal problem
• An environment where you can be yourself
• A small dynamic company culture with open door policy - open access to decision makers and leadership team
• The opportunity to own and lead, supporting your development into leadership roles where applicable
• A genuinely flexible working policy - we operate mostly in a remote environment, however we do have offices available if you like a change of scenery. We host one team meet-up per month for collaboration!
• A leading employee benefits package

The Role

As a Product Manager, you will co-lead one of our cross-functional development teams, responsible for your product and implementation of the overall product vision and strategy.

As a recently established team in a new area of focus for Wealth Wizards, you’ll be supporting the discovery of our capability. You’ll play a key role in defining our product and customer experience, working alongside our Collaboration Client to understand how the application of WW’s digital products can support their business and customer priorities.

You’ll work with colleagues across Wealth Wizards to deliver our Property Wealth capability, and across boundaries with our Collaboration Client to implement and refine this.

You’ll balance refining and optimising your product to meet your team’s and customer objectives, with developing the future foundations as it evolves.

Key Responsibilities

• Know your customer and their problems and identify opportunities to improve their planning experience
• Shape the product strategy and roadmap for the product/s within your boundary
• Derive key insights and patterns from customer testing to provide insightful recommendations for continuous improvements
• Proficient at collaborating with Design and Engineering to ensure we build the right thing
• Skilled in analysing and breaking problems down in order to arrive the minimum viable product
• Managing and prioritising the product backlog to ultimately help deliver the overall product vision
• Capable written and verbal communicator internally and externally
• Builds rapport with key stakeholders to align around priorities and influence
• Can work with data to understand performance and turn data into insights
• Self aware and understands how their interactions impact others

About You

You’re already a Product Manager / Owner and you’ll know how to work in a cross functional team and as trio with engineering and design. You are proactive, responsible and have excellent attention to detail. You’ll obsess about your team’s output (ensuring everything is usable, accessible and useful).

Ideally you’ll already operate in a financial service context, so you’ll understand well the dynamics of the industry and the regulatory environment we and our clients operate in. Not essential, but very desirable if you have previous experience within an Advice / Guidance, Lending or Equity Release context.

Ourideal candidate would have..

• Approximately 2-5 years experience, working as a Product Manager/Owner
• A background working with digital products in financial services - essential
• A passion for the customer
• Ability to innovate or to lead activities that drive innovation
• A collaborative approach to your work
• Passion for quality - exception attention to detail
• Highly independent and pragmatic - always makes conscious decisions
• Understand and evangelise about the value proposition and the needs of target customers
• Demonstrate Wealth Wizards core values (PEARH) and behaviours
• Knowledge of user experience design techniques and up-to-date with modern product management best practice

Our ValuesPioneering

• Driven and passionate about product management excellence
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic team player
• Proactive, innovative, resilient and energetic

Expert

• Constantly seeking new learning/ self-development opportunities
• Ability to represent Wealth Wizards at all times (telephone, digital or face-to-face communication)

Accessible

• Adaptable and enjoys a challenge
• Builds strong collaborative relationships
• Flexibility to work in a fast-moving business which is developing rapidly

Reliable

• Conscientious and tenacious
• Total trustworthiness essential
• Highly organised, methodical, meticulous and disciplined

Hungry

• Always looking for ways to improve the way how we deliver value and how we work as teams
• Active in open-source communities, industry meet ups or publication of blog posts
• Acts as an advocate for new and emerging technology within our business

Not sure if you tick every box? Don’t worry. If you think you have most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you.

Our Perks

• Flexible working
• We prioritise a sustainable work/life balance
• We have a collaborative learning culture that promotes psychological safety
• 25 days annual leave plus every bank holiday
• Company pension (up to 10% employer contribution)
• Company performance based Bonus scheme
• Paid day off to celebrate your birthday
• Additional holiday purchase (up to 5 days per year)
• Additional holidays for length of service (up to 3 days)
• Private medical insurance
• Dental and health cash plans
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• Discounts on gym membership and health screening
• Employee assistance programme
• Life assurance of 4x basic salary
• £500 pension advice per year
• 6 paid days per year for self development
• £500 individual training budget per year
• Professional memberships funded
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Cycle, Home & Tech scheme

Please note: Candidates must be currently located in the UK and possess full rights to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide sponsorship or consider applications from individuals outside of the UK for this role.