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# Staff Data Product Manager (Machine Learning) - Canada at NerdWallet

- **Company:** NerdWallet
- **Location:** Nerdwallet, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nerdwallet/607b43fe-2a13-4f41-a1f7-28a070e604ed

## Job description

NerdWallet’s mission is to provide clarity for all of life’s financial decisions. Machine learning is how we get there at scale. It helps us understand our consumers, personalize their experiences, and connect them with the financial products that fit their needs.

We’re hiring a Staff Data Product Manager to own the ML product roadmap across NerdWallet. You’ll work with our business verticals, Data Scientists, and Engineering teams to find the highest-impact opportunities and take predictive models from idea to production to adoption. The work ranges from customer lifetime value prediction to lead scoring to personalized product recommendations.

This is a product leadership role for someone who is technically fluent in ML. You won’t build models or write production code, but you’ll be a credible, peer-level partner to the people who do. You’ll challenge assumptions on ground truth, evaluation, and serving architecture, and you’ll tie every model to a business outcome.

This role reports to the VP, Data & Analytics.

Where you can make an impact: Partner deeply with Data Science and ML Engineering

- Dig into modeling trade-offs, ground-truth definitions, training data quality, precision/recall, and feature strategy alongside Data Scientists and ML Engineers.
- Navigate ML infrastructure decisions, including model serving, feature pipelines, batch vs. real-time inference, latency, and production dependencies.
- Turn ambiguous business problems into clear model objectives, technical requirements, and measurable success criteria.

Own the roadmap and drive models into production

- Own and prioritize the ML roadmap across verticals, balancing business impact, technical feasibility, and engineering capacity. You’ll decide what to build, defer, or say no to.
- Work across Data Science, Data Engineering, Product Engineering, and business teams to get model predictions into consumer experiences, real-time decisioning systems, and business workflows.
- Make sure every launch is production-ready, with clear ownership of dependencies and validated performance against technical and business requirements.

Measure what matters

- Work with Data Science and Analytics on experiments, A/B tests, and causal measurement that prove the incremental impact of ML.
- Define and monitor success criteria covering predictive performance, reliability, adoption, and business outcomes.
- Explain model performance, trade-offs, limitations, and revenue impact clearly to senior stakeholders.

Lead beyond your own roadmap

- Set the long-term vision for ML products, influence without formal authority, and mentor other product managers and partners.

Your experience: 7+ years in Data Product Management, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, with a track record of shipping production ML or data products

- Deep fluency in applied ML: training data, ground truth, loss functions, precision/recall, overfitting, and model evaluation
- Strong understanding of ML platforms and infrastructure: model serving, feature pipelines, batch vs. real-time inference, latency trade-offs, and deployment workflows
- Experience partnering directly with Data Scientists and ML Engineers to challenge assumptions and navigate complex dependencies
- Experience with modern data and ML tools such as Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, or similar
- Strong business sense, with the ability to connect ML work to revenue growth, customer lifetime value, conversion, and marketing efficiency
- Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership, including influencing technical and business stakeholders without formal authority
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Where:

- This is a remote position and a person can be located anywhere in Canada (with the exception of Quebec).
- NerdWallet is proud to be a remote-first company! We believe great work can be done anywhere. No matter where you are based, NerdWallet offers benefits and perks to support the physical, financial, and emotional well being of you and your family.

What we offer: Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?)

- Monthly Healthcare Stipend
- Rejuvenation Policy – Vacation Time Off + You will receive the official public holidays in your province
- Paid sabbatical for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge and pursue their interests
- Monthly Wellness Stipend, Wifi Stipend, and Cell Phone Stipend
- Work from home equipment stipend

Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too)

- Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities
- Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments
- Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction

Plan for your future (And when you retire on your island, remember the little people)

- RRSP with a 4% match. Eligible one month after hire.
- Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar

NerdWallet is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, so all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. #LI-Remote #LI-6

## About NerdWallet

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: NerdWallet is a personal finance platform that provides tools, reviews, and educational content to help consumers make informed decisions about credit cards, banking, mortgages, insurance, investing, and other financial products.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: NRDS)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Tim Chen, Jacob Gibson

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Personal Finance, Financial Services, Fintech, Consumer Software
- **Target customers**: B2C (consumers of all income levels seeking to manage money, build credit, save, invest, and borrow); B2B partners (banks, credit unions, insurance carriers, and other financial institutions that pay for customer leads and advertising)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To provide clarity around money matters and help people make smarter financial decisions.

## Products & Services
- **Credit Card & Banking Recommendations**: Comparison engine that reviews and ranks credit cards, high-yield savings accounts, and checking accounts.
- **Mortgage & Lending Marketplace**: Tools to compare mortgage rates, personal loan offers, and student loan refinancing options.
- **Insurance Comparison**: Platform for comparing auto, home, life, and renters insurance quotes.
- **NerdWallet Cash Account**: A high-yield savings/investing product offering a competitive APY (currently 3.9% APY) through Atomic Brokerage.
- **Credit Score Monitoring & Education**: Free credit score tracking, personalized tips, and financial health resources.
- **Small Business Tools**: Guides and comparison tools for small-business financing, credit cards, and banking.
- **Mobile App**: iOS and Android app (4.8 stars, 100k downloads) for tracking net worth, budgeting, and managing finances on the go.
- **NerdWallet Editorial & Educational Content**: A library of 15,000+ articles, guides, and expert reviews covering personal finance topics.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Market Cap ~$750M (as of mid-2026, based on stock price ~$11.32 and 65M shares outstanding)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$836.6M** (FY2025 reported)
- **Total Funding**: $238.8M prior to IPO, plus $131M Post-IPO equity raise
- **IPO Date**: November 4, 2021
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Camelot Financial Capital Management (lead Series A), plus partnerships with hundreds of financial institutions (banks, insurers, lenders) including major names like Capital One, Chase, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 10M+ app downloads and 7M+ monthly active users.
  - Revenue of $836.6M reflects significant scale.
  - Remote-first workforce across 17 countries.
  - Named a 2024-2025 "Best Company to Work For" by U.S. News & World Report.
  - Expanded into Canada and UK with localized content.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Trusted Brand & Content Moat**: 15,000+ pieces of expert-reviewed financial content and a high-traffic organic presence. High trust scores (4.8 stars on app stores, 5-star ratings in multiple product categories).
- **Revenue Model Breadth**: Diversified across affiliate marketing (lead generation for credit cards, loans, insurance), advertising, and its own Cash Account product.
- **Data & Personalization**: Uses aggregate financial data to tailor product recommendations, improving conversion rates and user stickiness.
- **Scale & Reach**: 10M+ monthly active users and partnerships with 100+ financial experts create a flywheel of content and user acquisition.

## Strategic Focus
- **Mobile & App Growth**: Building the app as the primary engagement hub (net worth tracking, savings, investing).
- **AI & Personalization**: Investing in AI-driven recommendations and personalized financial guidance (currently hiring a Senior PM for AI Growth).
- **Expansion into Adjacent Verticals**: Deepening small business offerings and insurance marketplace.
- **International Expansion**: Ongoing buildout of content and partnerships in Canada and the UK.
- **Product Diversification**: Launching and scaling proprietary products like the Cash Account (3.9% APY) to reduce reliance on third-party affiliate fees.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes "candor, respect, humility, and curiosity." Employees report high levels of cross-functional collaboration and a "consumer-first" mission.
- **Remote-First**: The company has transitioned to a remote-first workplace; most roles are fully remote from anywhere in the U.S. (offices still exist in San Francisco, New York, and the UK).
- **Work-Life Balance**: Rated 4.3/5 on work-life balance by employees. Company-wide mental health days, generous parental leave, and flexible scheduling.
- **Compensation & Perks**: Competitive health insurance for employee + family, mental health support, retirement plans, and an emphasis on employee growth/empowerment.
- **Engineering & Data Focus**: Strong engineering culture (120 technical staff). Opportunities to work on massive data sets (credit card products, personal finance data) and shape AI-driven features.
- **Employee Reviews (Glassdoor-style)**: Overall 3.5/5.0 on employer rating (Culture: 3.9, Compensation: 3.9, Career: 3.2) — positive sentiment around mission and flexibility, moderate on career advancement pace.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Active DEI programs, inclusive environment, and commitment to employee belonging (per careers page).
- **Current Openings**: ~20+ active roles including: Staff Data Scientist, Senior IT System Administrator, Staff Data Product Manager, Senior PM (AI Growth), Staff Software Engineer, Senior Engineering Manager, and more.

## Sources
1. [NerdWallet Official Site](https://www.nerdwallet.com/)
2. [NerdWallet Careers Page](https://www.nerdwallet.com/careers)
3. [NerdWallet Jobs (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nerdwallet?embed=js&locationId=0b9f774b-79d1-400a-b374-c228816c97ee)
4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nerdwallet)
5. [Wikipedia - NerdWallet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NerdWallet)

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