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Max ease. Full speed.\nWhether 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.\nAs part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.\nFor everyone, everywhere.\nMore about our mission and what we offer.\nJob Description\nYour mission\nAs Senior Research Lead for Grow, you’ll own research’s strategic contribution across the entire business area. You’ll identify and initiate the research programmes that matter most, connecting questions and opportunities across multiple teams.\nYour focus will be on where Grow needs to go, what it needs to learn to move forward and driving change. You’ll ensure research anticipates hurdles, identifies future opportunities and helps the organisation make confident decisions.\nYou’ll work with the cross-functional teams that make up Grow. Together, they’re rethinking how people can earn a return on all their money, regardless of currency, goal or risk appetite. You’ll initially lead one or two researchers, supporting their performance, development and progression while setting clear direction for the team’s work. Alongside this leadership, you’ll continue to plan and deliver strategically important research yourself.\nSuccess at this level means research is integral to how Grow sets direction and prioritises opportunities.\nHere’s how you’ll make an impact\nDefining research direction: Set clear direction across teams, connecting customer evidence to Grow’s product and business goals\n\nRaising research quality and maturity: Set and uphold high standards, champion user-centred decision-making and improve research capability across teams\n\nStrengthening research practice: Bring together people, processes, tools and standards so research is focused, efficient and consistently high quality\n\nLeading through people: Develop researchers and future research leaders, cultivate a strong leadership culture and take responsibility for performance and impact\n\nUsing evidence to influence: Use evidence to shape core product features, multi-team roadmaps and senior stakeholder decisions\n\nBuilding compelling narratives: Create a clear picture of the future that aligns teams and inspires Wise’s senior leaders to act\n\nManaging interdependencies: Align research priorities across teams, resolve dependencies and create clarity around shared decisions\n\nUsing modern tools thoughtfully: Set direction for the responsible use of AI and emerging tools where they improve speed, quality or impact without weakening research rigour or judgement\n\nAbout you\nYou have 10+ years’ research experience, including leading researchers across multiple teams or complex product areas\n\nYou have a track record of raising research quality and maturity across teams by improving craft, processes, tools and standards\n\nYou can shape research and product strategy across a business area and influence senior stakeholders through compelling evidence and storytelling\n\nYou can connect customer evidence to business outcomes and identify opportunities for research to create new value\n\nYou can lead diverse teams through change, complexity and ambiguity while maintaining clear direction and high standards\n\nYou can develop strong researchers and future leaders through clear expectations, thoughtful coaching and accountable performance management\n\nYou can navigate competing priorities and resolve complex people and stakeholder challenges while maintaining trust and cohesion\n\nAnd as a heads up, this role probably isn't for you if:\nYour experience is primarily in market research or academia, without demonstrable experience leading user research in technology or product teams\n\nYou want a management-only role and no longer want to plan or deliver research yourself\n\nAdditional Information\nFor everyone, everywhere. 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