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title: 'Technical Program / Product Manager (TPM) at Bree'
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# Technical Program / Product Manager (TPM) at Bree

- **Company:** Bree
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Compensation:** $120k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bree/5ffd6e4b-986b-4496-ac58-3a1e8241ae39

## Job description

## About Bree

Bree is a consumer finance platform that brings better, faster, and cheaper financial services to over half the Canadian population who live paycheck to paycheck. We operate in a huge, but overlooked market in a country with the least amount of financial technology innovation in the developed world. Our first act is to become the cheapest and best provider of short-term credit to the 20 million people in Canada who live paycheck to paycheck. More than 800,000 Canadians have already signed up with Bree and we believe we are just scratching the surface. We are in an exciting place where we have product market fit, explosive growth, and a clear path to becoming one of the most important FinTechs in Canada. We have had zero voluntary employee churn. We were part of [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/) in 2021 and raised a $2M seed round shortly after.

## About the Role

Bree’s engineering team works across customer-facing products, regulatory expansion, payments, infrastructure, security, data, and machine learning. As the company grows, the work increasingly spans multiple teams and requires clearer ownership, sequencing, and communication. We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to help turn company priorities into well-defined engineering programs and carry them through to release. You will work closely with Engineering, Product, Design, CX, Operations, Legal, and leadership. You will help clarify the problem, break large initiatives into manageable workstreams, identify dependencies, establish ownership, and make sure decisions and risks remain visible. This is not a meeting coordinator or status-reporting role. You should be technical enough to understand how an API, database migration, mobile release, third-party integration, or model change affects a project. You will not be expected to write production code, but you will be expected to ask the questions that help the team make better decisions.

## What You'll Do

- Turn ambiguous ML, engineering, and product priorities into scoped, sequenced work engineers can actually execute against.
- Write specs and scoping docs that hold up: understanding real tradeoffs like training data quality, inference latency, retraining cadence, and infra cost well enough to capture them accurately.
- Run the cadence: standups, sprint planning, model review syncs (but only the ones that earn their seat).
- Give exec a weekly read on what shipped, what's at risk, and what decision you need from them, in a form that takes three minutes, not thirty.
- Catch drift early - a model underperforming in validation, a pipeline with a data quality issue, a deploy stuck behind a monitoring gap - before it becomes a missed deadline.

## What You'll Need

- Experience as a Technical Program Manager, Program Manager, Product Manager, or similar role supporting a software engineering organization.
- Enough technical fluency to understand APIs, data models, system integrations, cloud infrastructure, release processes, and software dependencies.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where priorities and requirements can change.
- Excellent attention to detail, especially around ownership, dependencies, timelines, and unresolved decisions.
- An AI-native working style, using tools to accelerate research, documentation, meeting synthesis, backlog management, and status reporting while validating the output.

## Nice to Have

- Prior experience at an early-stage startup with no existing PM function to inherit. You've built the system, not just run one.
- Familiarity with mobile and web release processes, feature flags, staged rollouts, and production monitoring.
- Experience supporting infrastructure, security, data, or machine learning initiatives.
- Comfort reading SQL, logs, dashboards, or technical documentation to validate a claim independently.
- Familiarity with tools such as Linear, Notion, GitHub, Datadog, and Slack.

Full-Time Employee Benefits Include: 💰 Top of the market compensation for top performers ⚕️ Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits plan 🖥 $1,500 annual learning & home-office stipend 🧘🏼 $1,000 annual wellness stipend 🍔 Monthly Lunch Stipend 🚗 Commuter Benefits 🚼 Paid Parental leave 🏝 20 annual PTO days + unlimited sick days 🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings ☕ In Office Amenities

## About Bree

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bree is a Canadian consumer finance platform that provides interest‑free cash advances (up to $750) along with a budgeting tool and financial wellness content to help people avoid overdraft fees.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by Y Combinator S21; venture‑funded)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (also offices in Vancouver, BC; United States; Philippines; Vietnam)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Adam Kang and Alexander Li

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Consumer finance / Fintech
- **Target customers**: B2C – Canadians living paycheck‑to‑paycheck, especially those at risk of overdraft
- **Mission/purpose statement**: “To help Canadians move towards financial wellness” with no interest, no mandatory fees, and a community‑supported model.

## Products & Services
- **Cash Advance (Flagship)**: Interest‑free cash advances from $20 up to $750, with 0% APR. No mandatory fees or interest; users choose an optional tip. Repayment is triggered on the next payday (minimum 1 day, maximum 90 days). Offers overdraft protection.
- **Budgeting Tool**: Included in the optional monthly membership ($2.99/month after a 1‑month free trial). Provides financial insights and spending tracking.
- **Weekly Newsletter**: Financial wellness content sent to subscribers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Over 400,000 consumers have signed up since 2021 (source: LinkedIn)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (S21 batch), plus other venture capital firms and angel investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 54.2% YoY to 31 employees (LinkedIn). Active job postings increased 140% year‑over‑year. Expanding into new roles across engineering, product, and operations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **No‑interest, no‑fee model**: Differentiates from payday lenders and traditional overdraft services. Users only tip if they choose, keeping the service affordable.
- **Community‑supported ethos**: “Pay it forward” culture – tips from users keep the service running, aligning incentives with customer well‑being.
- **Simple, fast access**: Sign up and get approved in minutes; integrated with payroll for automatic repayment.
- **Strong early traction**: 400,000+ users in a large addressable market (20M+ Canadians living paycheck‑to‑paycheck).

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Bree positions itself as “Chime for Canada” – aiming to become a full‑service digital banking alternative. Current hiring includes ML engineers for underwriting and product managers for new features.
- **Growth**: Scaling engineering and AI capabilities (e.g., Machine Learning Engineer, Underwriting) to improve credit decisioning and personalisation.
- **Geographic reach**: Currently Canada‑focused but has remote teams in the US, Philippines, and Vietnam, suggesting interest in global talent and possibly future international expansion.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & mission**: “Customer First” and “Trust” are core values. The company aims to replace predatory payday loans with a fair, transparent service.
- **Engineering environment**: Tech stack includes modern tools (React Native, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, Snowflake, PyTorch). Teams are cross‑functional and agile.
- **Growth opportunity**: Rapid headcount growth (54% YoY) and a startup stage (Series unknown, but YC‑backed) means employees can have outsized impact.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid/remote options – roles are listed as remote (US/Canada) or Toronto/ Vancouver. Flexible working arrangements.
- **Compensation**: Salaries for engineering roles range from roughly $130K–$230K CAD (per YC job listings), competitive for Canadian fintech.
- **Benefits**: Optional $2.99/month membership for premium budgeting features; otherwise no mandatory fees. Perks mentioned: free trial, community support model.

## Sources
1. [trybree.com](https://www.trybree.com/)
2. [trybree.com/about](https://www.trybree.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/breetechnologies](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/breetechnologies)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/bree/jobs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bree/jobs)
5. [ashbyhq.com/bree](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bree)

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