Senior Product Manager, Activities & Balances at Wealthsimple

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 [Upgrade to PRO to see link] and learn more about how we work [Upgrade to PRO to see link] ABOUT THE TEAM The Financial Data team builds and operates the platform that powers client balances, statements, activity feeds, and core financial metrics across Wealthsimple. We focus on delivering a reliable, real-time, and extensible foundation that other product teams can safely build on top of. The Activities domain sits at the heart of this platform, transforming raw events into clear, auditable timelines of what’s happened in a client’s account. You’ll join a high-impact, highly technical team that partners closely with engineering, data, operations, and other product teams to ship infrastructure that quietly does the right thing at scale. ABOUT THE ROLE As the Senior Product Manager for Activities & Balances, you’ll own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the platform that transforms raw financial events into clear client activities and accurate balances across Wealthsimple. Reporting to the Lead PM, Financial Data, you’ll ensure we have a strong technical foundation — data models, pipelines, APIs, and tooling — that makes it easy for teams across Wealthsimple to build consistent, trustworthy client experiences on top of Activities and Balances. You’ll work closely with the Core Balances and Financial Accounting & Metrics (FAM) engineering teams to design how activities flow through our systems, how they materialize into balances, and how they support mission-critical use cases like statements, tax, and financial metrics. This is a client centric platform-style role that will require migration and legacy tech deprecation management, where you’ll lead the transition to our next-generation Financial Data stack while minimizing client and operational risk. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own the end-to-end Activities and Balances domains (models, pipelines, APIs, contracts, and UX principles) that power client activity and balances across Wealthsimple products. - Define and drive the roadmap for the global activity feed and balance experiences, ensuring they are accurate, performant, and consistent across platforms, currencies, and account types. - Build and maintain clear rules for different balance types, making it obvious to both internal stakeholders and clients what they can do with their funds and why. - Act as the bridge between deep technical systems and the client experience, translating complex trade-offs into simple, intuitive flows and always keeping client trust and clarity at the center of decisions. - Own the pipeline that transforms activities into balances, including how it integrates with other services, and downstream consumers. - Lead major platform migrations, deprecating legacy activity and balance systems and moving use cases onto a unified Financial Data foundation with clear milestones and risk management. - Partner deeply with engineering to design data flows that support balances, statements, tax, and financial metrics with strong correctness and observability. - Collaborate with other PMs and product teams to understand their needs and solve their problems in reusable ways rather than one-off features. - Set and monitor key health metrics (e.g., activity and balance freshness, correctness, performance, developer experience) for Activities, Balances, and use them to prioritize trade-offs and investments. - Dig into the details of data models, logs, and edge cases to understand issues, validate hypotheses, and support engineering in debugging and remediation. - Champion platform thinking and best practices, helping teams adopt new capabilities, align on patterns, and ship changes safely in a high-change environment. SKILLS YOU BRING - 4+ years of product management experience, ideally in customer centric, highly technical domains. - Strong technical background, ideally with a computer science, engineering, or equivalent foundation, and comfort collaborating deeply with senior engineers. - Fast learner with a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on complex systems, data models, and architectures. - Ability to communicate complex concepts simply to both technical and non-technical audiences, creating clarity in ambiguous and highly technical problem spaces. - Ability to come up with creative changes to requirements to deliver value to clients while reducing technical complexity. - Collaborative, low-ego working style, with a bias to roll up your sleeves, ask questions, and build strong relationships across engineering, data, operations, and other product teams. - Proven track record of shipping platform capabilities (APIs, shared services, or internal tools) that unlock value for multiple product teams or domains with experience leading large-scale migrations or replatforming efforts. - Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-change environment, with the ability to adapt quickly, make thoughtful trade-offs, and keep teams aligned on what matters most. WHY WEALTHSIMPLE? 🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance 📈 Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business 🌴 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year ✈️ 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year 👥 Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS 🌎 We are a hybrid team with over 1,500 employees across North America. The people are one of the best parts of working here: you'll collaborate with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who are deeply committed to doing great work. ICYMI Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple: We move quickly and build thoughtfully. That means we're always looking for better ways to work — whether that's new tools, AI, or rethinking how we approach a problem. We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect curiosity and a willingness to evolve alongside the products we're building. Inclusion Statement: We're building products for a diverse world, and we need a diverse team to do it well. We strongly encourage applications from everyone, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. Accessibility Statement: We're committed to an accessible hiring experience. If you need any accommodations throughout the interview process, please let us know — we'll work with you to make sure you have what you need. We also welcome any feedback on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs. AI in Hiring: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our team but don't replace human judgment – all final hiring decisions are made by people. If you have questions about how your data is used, reach out to us.