Lead Product Manager, Risk-Based Product Innovation

Posted 7 Days Ago
15 Locations
In-Office
139K-185K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Payments
The Role
Lead the development of risk-based financial products, defining strategies and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure customer-centric solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In

This is a remote position, however, the candidate must reside within 30 miles of one of the following locations: Portland ME, Chicago IL, Boston MA, Washington DC, Dallas TX, San Jose CA, Seattle WA, or New York City NY.

WEX is an innovative payments and technology company leading the way in a rapidly evolving landscape. Our goal is to simplify the business of running a business for our customers—freeing them to focus on what matters most. As part of our journey toward a unified, customer-driven experience across our portfolio, we are investing in new product capabilities that align with the evolving needs of commercial customers and unlock future growth.

We are seeking a Lead Product Manager to help shape and lead new financial product initiatives within our North American Mobility division. This role will be responsible for defining product strategies, collaborating across risk, finance, engineering, and go-to-market teams, and delivering solutions that reflect the diversity and complexity of our customer base.

This position is ideal for a senior product leader with deep experience in financial services or payments who thrives in highly collaborative environments and has a passion for designing scalable, customer-first solutions.

About the Team

The North American Mobility Payments team is responsible for defining and executing the product strategy for WEX’s core commercial payment experiences. As a Lead Product Manager, you will drive high-impact initiatives that evolve how we think about product flexibility, financial structure, and customer-centric value delivery.

What You’ll Do

  • Own a portfolio of initiatives within the Risk-Based Financial Products—driving strategy, execution, and delivery across multiple workstreams such as flexible payment terms, underwriting controls, and revolving credit features.

  • Translate customer and business needs into well-scoped features that drive measurable financial outcomes.

  • Collaborate with risk, finance, and data science to design segment-specific credit policies and pricing strategies.

  • Partner with risk, finance, engineering, and operations to define, deliver, and scale financial products within a modern platform architecture.

  • Align with finance and GTM teams to build business cases, forecast P&L outcomes, and support cross-functional launches.

  • Lead agile development teams in the execution of MVPs, with a strong bias toward experimentation, measurement, and iteration.

  • Readily integrates qualitative & quantitative insights in crafting product strategy and leveraging data to drive decisions

  • Shares insights across key stakeholders to drive alignment, empowerment, and progress

  • Help define and measure success by balancing customer-impact metrics (adoption, satisfaction, retention, and engagement) with business outcomes (revenue uplift, credit utilization, and portfolio health), ensuring our products deliver both exceptional customer value and measurable business growth.

How You’ll Engage

  • Strategic Mindset: Understand the market, evolving fleet needs, and WEX’s platform strategy to guide product direction.

  • Customer Obsessed: Use customer empathy, feedback, and data to ensure we’re solving the right problems and delivering real value.

  • Results Focused: Drive clarity on priorities and outcomes, grounded in data and business impact.

  • Insights Driven: Use analytics, experiments, and discovery methods to make informed product decisions.

  • Trusted Partner: Build alignment across functions through clear communication, thoughtful prioritization, and collaborative problem-solving.

  • Relevant Expertise: Bring knowledge of payments, financial services, or B2B risk based products, and a strong learning mindset to keep evolving your craft.

Experience You’ll Bring

  • 8–10+ years of product management experience in a modern, data-driven organization.

  • Experience building financial, risk, or card products—especially in a B2B or embedded context—is a strong plus.

  • Proven ability to drive execution in cross-functional environments and manage delivery across multiple stakeholders.

  • Experience decomposing complex initiatives into small, testable features and iterative milestones.

  • Familiarity with agile processes, experimentation frameworks, and modern product discovery techniques.

  • Ability to balance technical feasibility with customer experience and commercial viability.

  • Clear, structured communication skills with an ability to influence up, down, and across teams.

  • Undergraduate degree required; advanced degree is a plus.

The base pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay rates will vary and will be based on various factors, such as your qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. Base pay is one component of WEX's total compensation package. Most sales positions are eligible for commission under the terms of an applicable plan. Non-sales roles are typically eligible for a quarterly or annual bonus based on their role and applicable plan. WEX's comprehensive and market competitive benefits are designed to support your personal and professional well-being. Benefits include health, dental and vision insurances, retirement savings plan, paid time off, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, and more. For more information, check out the "About Us" section.Pay Range: $139,000.00 - $185,000.00

Top Skills

Agile Development
Data Analysis
Financial Services
Payments
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The Company
HQ: Portland, ME
4,900 Employees

What We Do

We simplify complex payment systems for fleets, corporate payments, and healthcare—unlocking insights, opportunities, and efficiencies to give you greater control of your business.

Powered by the belief that complex payment systems can be made simple, WEX (NYSE: WEX) is a leading financial technology service provider across a wide spectrum of sectors, including fleet, travel and healthcare. WEX operates in more than 10 countries and in more than 20 currencies through approximately 4,900 associates around the world. WEX fleet cards offer approximately 14 million vehicles exceptional payment security and control; our travel and corporate solutions business processes over $35 billion of purchase volume annually; and the WEX Health financial technology platform helps 343,000 employers and more than 28 million consumers better manage healthcare expenses.

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