Principal Product Manager, Investing

Wealthfront is looking for a Principal Product Manager to own the roadmap for some of our most important Investing product initiatives! Wealthfront pioneered automated index investing by offering broad access to sophisticated investing strategies at a fraction of the cost of traditional financial advisers. Since then, we’ve continued to expand the ways we help our clients build long-term wealth through saving and investing.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for one or more product initiatives in our Investing Area, which includes our Automated Index Investing Account, our Stock Investing Account, and our Bond Investing products. Your work will span improvements to existing products and the exploration of potential new “0 to 1” product opportunities. You will collaborate with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Data Science, Research, Operations, and Compliance to craft high quality consumer experiences and strong go to market plans that result in successful products. You’ll use quantitative and qualitative research to drive high quality product decision-making.

Success in this role will require strong strategic thinking skills, exceptional judgment, analytical rigor, and executional excellence. You should be comfortable with ambiguity and highly complex product decisions with constantly changing assumptions. You’re exceptional at framing problems and tradeoff decisions to drive alignment and well-informed decision-making. A passion for investing or experience building consumer financial technology products is highly desirable.This is a unique opportunity to be at the center of charting the next generation of technology innovation in investing products. If this gets you excited, we want to hear from you!

You:

• 8+ years of Product Management experience in a consumer software company; experience in building financial technology products is a plus.
• Demonstrated track record of high-quality decision-making. You’re first and foremost an exceptional product thinker.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with an ability to quickly command trust and drive alignment with cross-functional partners and executives.
• Strong product sense. You’re passionate about building delightful product experiences.
• Analytical mindset with a data-driven approach to problem solving and decision-making.
• Strong strategic thinking capabilities with an action-oriented mindset.
• Entrepreneurial and creative attitude. “Yes and” is one of your favorite phrases.
• Experience working with complex or highly regulated products.

Responsibilities:

• Champion and curate the vision for your product initiatives, continually refine it based on customer insights, and rally the team around it.
• Define the product priorities and short, medium, and long-term roadmap. Use data and good judgment to drive alignment around tradeoff decisions.
• Deliver the roadmap through agile sprint cycles, working with them to drive high-quality, customer and data-backed product decisions.
• Define success metrics and consistently measure the impact of the team’s work.
• Work cross-functionally to take new products and features to market in a way that maximizes their success.