Product Director - Brazil

As our Product Director for Brazil, you'll own the mission to revolutionize international payments for consumers and businesses. Your vision will guide how we build, enhance, and scale our infrastructure, making international transfers feel as invisible and seamless as local payments.

This is a unique opportunity to define what a 10x-better financial product looks like in Brazil. You will be the driving force behind our entire user lifecycle in this high-growth market, from defining the next generation of payment infrastructure to identifying new opportunities for our growing user base.

This role gives you the opportunity to:

• Own the Strategic Roadmap: You will define and execute the product strategy for Brazil. You'll make the high-impact calls on which currencies and payment methods to launch, determining whether to build, buy, or partner to win the market.

• Lead and Scale a World-Class Team: You will mentor, manage, and inspire a high-performing group of product managers. You'll foster a high-energy, collaborative environment where cross-functional teams (engineering, compliance, operations) can deliver their best work.

• Drive Explosive User Growth: You'll directly impact our global expansion by launching new currencies and payout methods, driving acquisition, and deepening user engagement to make us the default choice for millions.

• Expand the Product Ecosystem: You will bring the full power of our platform to the Brazilian market, enabling customers to not just send money, but to hold balances, get paid, and spend like a local with our card.

• Champion Speed and Cost: You will relentlessly optimize our existing currency corridors, finding and executing on opportunities to drive down costs and increase payment speed, ensuring we are always the cheapest, fastest, and most convenient choice.

• Translate Complex Compliance into Simple Experiences: You'll solve the toughest product challenges by taking complex local and global regulatory requirements and designing seamless, user-friendly experiences that build trust and feel effortless.

• Collaborate to Scale Faster: You'll work seamlessly with core platform and operations teams to smooth the integration of new partners, accelerating our product expansion at a global scale.

What we are looking for: 

• Proven Product Leadership: You have significant experience building and scaling products to millions of users. You have a track record of leading, mentoring, and growing high-performing teams of product managers, acting as a player-coach who is comfortable being hands-on.

• Brazil Payments Expert: You have deep domain knowledge of the Brazilian payments and fintech landscape (e.g., Pix, local acquiring, e-commerce, banking regulations).

• Strategic & Analytical: You have exceptional clarity of thinking and can bring structure to highly ambiguous problems. You are passionate about using data and analytics to solve complex challenges and build consensus around a multi-year vision.

• End-to-End Delivery: You have a proven ability to deliver complex, end-to-end products by collaborating effectively across engineering, compliance, operations, and other departments.

• Customer-Obsessed: You have a knack for turning intricate technical and regulatory constraints into simple, beautiful, and effortless user experiences.

• Entrepreneurial Drive: You have a true entrepreneurial spirit and a creative mindset that challenges the status quo. You have a proven track record of getting the right things done and driving significant impact.

• Exceptional Communicator: You can communicate ideas clearly and persuasively across all levels of the organization—from inspiring your team to managing senior stakeholders and presenting to external partners.

• Language Fluency: You are fluent in both English and Portuguese (this is essential for this role).

Benefits: 

• 💰 Salary range for this role is between 60.000BRL and 76.000BRL
• 🚀 RSU’s in a rapidly growing company
• 💻 Flexible working model – During the first six months, you’ll be in office most days of the week to become fully immersed in Wise’s culture and ways of working. After the initial period, you’ll be in office at least 3 days per week. 
• 💪 An annual self-development budget
• 🩺 Health and dental allowance for you and your dependents
• 💝 Company-paid: Life Insurance, and an EAP program
• ☀️ Paid time off: 30 days vacation + 3 “Me” days + 1 volunteer day, annually
• 🏝️ A paid 6-week sabbatical leave after four years
• 👶🏼 18-weeks of paid parental leave, after a year with us and child care assistance
• 🚌 Transportation vouchers
• 🍕 Food (708 BRL per month) and Meal (1,166 BRL per month) vouchers
• 🏋️ TotalPass access to 3,500 gyms and studios throughout Brazil

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're 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.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're 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.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.