Principal Product Manager People Experience

About the role 

Wises mission depends on brilliant people doing their best work. This role is about building the technology foundations that help more than 7000 Wisers stay productive connected and focused on impact.

Youll own the product strategy roadmap and user experience for People Technology shaping the systems that power our employee lifecycle. Youll connect Wises strategic business needs with the evolving technology landscape AI included simplifying complex processes and reducing friction across the organisation.

To succeed youll be skilled at finding the real problem behind the symptoms defining clear outcomes and taking senior stakeholders on the journey from ambiguity to practical high-impact solutions.

How we work

Wise teams are empowered to make decisions close to the problem. We care about clear ownership fast learning strong partnerships and measurable impact.

As Product Lead for People Technology youll operate across multiple teams and senior stakeholders to shape a domain that touches every Wiser. Youll need to create clarity where there is ambiguity balance business needs with technical realities and make pragmatic decisions that help Wise scale.

Youll work in partnership with People Engineering Security Compliance Analytics and Operations aligning teams around the highest-impact problems and building technology foundations that are reliable scalable and easy to use.

Read more about how we work here.

What Youll Do (Responsibilities)

• Set the product and technical direction for People Technology including the roadmap priorities and success measures for the domain.

• Build scalable foundations across the systems that support the employee lifecycle from core HR platforms to integrations data flows identity and automation.

• Connect strategy to delivery by translating Wises people and business priorities into clear product outcomes and practical execution plans.

• Make high-quality trade-offs across build buy and integrate decisions balancing user experience scalability reliability security and compliance.

• Lead through influence by aligning senior stakeholders across People Engineering Security Compliance Analytics and Operations.

• Improve productivity and reduce friction for Wisers by simplifying processes and creating intuitive reliable technology experiences.

• Drive measurable impact by defining KPIs learning from delivery and continuously improving how the domain operates.

Qualifications :

We know great candidates may not meet every requirement. If you have strong technical product judgement experience working with complex systems and are excited to learn more about People Technology wed still love to hear from you.

Youll be a strong fit for this role if you have:

• Deep technical product experience youve led complex product or platform domains ideally in People Technology enterprise systems internal platforms or another highly integrated environment.

• Strong systems thinking you understand how data workflows integrations identity permissions and vendor platforms connect and can make good trade-offs across them.

• Experience owning strategy and roadmaps you can define a clear product direction prioritise across competing needs and translate strategy into measurable outcomes.

• A track record of delivering impact youve shipped scalable solutions that improved productivity reduced friction or created measurable value for users and the business.

• Excellent stakeholder leadership you can influence senior stakeholders create alignment across teams and explain complex technical topics clearly to non-technical audiences.

• Comfort with ambiguity youre able to structure messy problem spaces identify the real problem to solve and break work down into practical deliverable steps.

• Strong partnership skills youve worked closely with engineering analytics security compliance operations or people teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience with HCM ATS LMS payroll workforce planning or HR data platforms.

• Experience with API-based integrations SSO identity and access management data models or automation.

• Familiarity with HR data privacy compliance or regulated environments.

• Experience applying platform-as-a-product thinking to internal tools or enterprise systems.

Interested Find out more:

• The Wise Tech Stack 2025 Edition 

• Our Application Security Journey

• Platform Engineering KPIs

• Internal Platform as a Product at Wise

• Wise Engineering Information :

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  Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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  Remote Work :

  No

  
  

  Employment Type :

  Full-time