Senior Product Manager APAC Expansion
Seoul - South Korea
Job Summary
Were opening a brand new product hub in South Korea and looking for a Senior Product Manager to own the launch and expansion of Wises product not just in South Korea but in some of our most core fastest growing Asian markets.
Heres how youll be contributing:
Youll be a hands-on senior PM leading a cross-functional team of engineers and analysts based in Seoul collaborating with a wider product compliance engineering and marketing team across Singapore and Japan.
Your day-to-day:
Own core APAC markets end-to-end youre the primary product owner for markets where we have conviction or demonstrated product-market fit. You work with a large team to ship feature products and amazing experiences to our customers in APAC.
Design and ship new products. Experiment improve expand and iterate to drive measurable growth in your markets
Lead new market entry for critical markets. From positioning and initial product scoping through licence acquisition all the way to launch. Work closely with regional marketing pricing and operations teams to drive go-to-market strategy
Use data relentlessly to inform decisions forecast outcomes and measure impact (we use Lightdash Superset and Snowflake but bring your tool of choice SQL Python Excel R whatever gets the job done)
Collaborate across functions with designers engineers analysts compliance banking teams and regional leadership to move fast and ship things that matter
Qualifications :
Who were looking for:
A product champion in the making: At least 4 years in product roles post-graduation. Youve shipped products at scale and you know how to operate hands-on and detailed. You show strong signs of strategic high level thinking and are able to forecast and own first and second order effects of your decisions.
Entrepreneurial: You dont wait for permission. You scope it build conviction and drive it forward. You convince partners colleagues and customers to do whats in everyones best interest across cultures and time zones. Experience in go-to-market execution at startups or modern tech or finance companies is a strong plus.
Strong iterative muscle: You ship products fast learn fast and iterate. Youre comfortable with ambiguity and know how to turn fuzzy problems into structured plans. You treasure and heed others opinions but are able to stick to your vision to work on a product until it truly works.
Data-driven: You can either run your queries or partner up with your analysts to deep-dive into Wises rich data lakes to find the insight that changes the product direction.
Product sense: You can articulate clearly why a product works (or doesnt). You dont stop at the first insight idea or opinion: you dig deep and run high quality research driving your product opinions leading to world-class fintech products that ship on time. Experience in banking payments remittances or adjacent fintech is highly valued.
Nice to have:
Experience in market launches licensing or regulatory work in Asia
Background in fintech neobanks crypto exchanges super-apps or API/platform products
Startup or scale-up founder experience
Professional fluency in written and spoken Korean (preferred to manage local stakeholders and technical documentation)
Whats in it for you
Own some of the worlds largest markets. build and launch products that are genuinely useful to millions of people with a world-class team
Be a founding member of Wises Korea hub. Shape the culture and direction of a brand new outpost from day one
Work on Wises fastest growing markets. APAC is where the action is and youll be at the centre of it
Grow fast with your markets: We offer clear transparent career progression via Wises Product Management Career Map. You will also have real opportunities to branch into adjacent domains like analytics engineering design research and learn from some of the best minds in this sector.
Additional Information :
For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.
Were proud to have a truly international team and we celebrate our differences.
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
About Company
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move money around the world. With the Wise account people and businesses can hold 40+ currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new cro ... View more