Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

 

Job Description

Help us build the best payment rails in the world. At Wise, we are building the best infrastructure to move money internationally.

Today, Wise customers can send and exchange money in over 40 currencies. By this time next year, we aim to make Wise available in all 175 currencies worldwide — and that's where you come in! Our goal is to empower people and businesses to send money wherever they need, making money truly work without borders. In this role, you'll work closely with our Swift team to open up Wise as broadly as possible. 

Once coverage over Swift is achieved, you'll figure out how to efficiently implement the remaining currencies by working with global payment aggregators or with regional teams via local banks and payment service providers. Once our customers can send money anywhere in the world, you'll have the chance to solve the puzzle of eliminating hidden fees, making Wise's global payment network the most transparent one out there.

 

Note - This is not a sales role - for that, see our Business Development roles. 

Your Mission:

Help us grow, maintain and scale our bank partner and payment scheme relationships. At Wise, we are building the best infrastructure to move money internationally, so you will:

Collaborate with product and engineering teams to help build the best payment rails in the world including optimising our SWIFT network and other global payment aggregators.

Monitor and improve our payment product economics, to solve the puzzle of eliminating hidden fees, making Wise's global payment network the most transparent one out there.

Align closely with Product and Compliance teams to ensure our payment systems remain compliant to future regulations.

Analyze payment scheme rulebooks and articulate requirements to product and engineering teams, covering settlement models and payment flows.

Work with banking partners, central banks and payment schemes to enable Wise’s expansion goals. Including onboarding and contract reviews.

 

Qualifications

Can add commercial, regulatory and operational expertise to payment partnerships – with a focus on areas like SWIFT, SEPA payments and other European payment systems 

Have excellent relationship management skills thinking through how to best leverage our existing global banking partners to ensure our product works optimally from a commercial, regulatory and technical point of view

Have experience in building transaction banking (payments) partnerships involving correspondent banking, either from a product management point of view or the operational side, and is therefore familiar with how payment systems work and the operational nuances that come with making SWIFT or domestic payments

Can innovate and build new payment solutions that have never existed before. You will need to come up with ideas where no process exists as well as convince people internally and externally that it can work. 

Are happy to go into technical or operational detail where needed – this could be reading banking contracts, understanding specific payment regulation or looking at payment data to optimise payment routing

Are not afraid to get their hands dirty to deliver what is needed – we’re a fast growing company and you will need an entrepreneurial mindset to thrive. You will need to be happy building complex partnerships one day whilst at the same time also balancing more basic day to day tasks such as form-filling and partner due diligence. 

Are familiar with how financial institutions and payment systems/central banks work and their decision makers. You’re excellent at managing those relationships and are constantly creating opportunities to improve them. You ideally have experience of payments product management or relationship management in a bank or similar organisation

Happy to work independently and flexibly within a fast-moving environment. You will need to be happy to travel to other European offices or to build better partner relationships when needed

Passionate about transforming the financial industry for good.

 

Additional Information

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.

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