AVP Product Group Owner, Digitization

TD; Canada; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial institution in Canada seeks a Digitization Product Group Owner to lead a team focused on the bank's paperless and digital document vision. You will drive product delivery, collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure alignment with business strategies. The role demands strong leadership skills, deep expertise in agile methodologies, and the ability to manage relationships at all levels. This position offers a competitive salary range and career growth opportunities.

Benefits

Discretionary compensation award

Growth opportunities

Skill development programs

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams in a complex environment.
• Proven track record in product management and agile methodologies.
• Strong communication skills with stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Product Owners and Analysts to deliver product capabilities.
• Align product initiatives with business vision and strategy.
• Facilitate collaboration within the organization to achieve measurable outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Agile methodology

Relationship management

Change management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Work Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours

37.5

Line of Business

Enterprise Enabling Functions

Pay Details

$150,000 - $200,000 CAD

This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance.

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

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Job Description

The Enablement Platform's Digitization Product Group supports the Bank's paperless and end-to-end digital document vision. While offering a suite of robust, industry-leading products is core to the Digitization vision, the product group also delivers capabilities via business-led initiatives across the entire enterprise.

The Digitization Product Group Owner will lead a team of Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, and Intake and Advocacy Managers, and is responsible for ensuring that the Product Group and its Pods are creating value for the organization through initiative delivery that is aligned with business vision and strategy and consistently drives measurable outcomes. This entails aligning with other business & technical partners, and senior management to follow a product vision, creating and maintaining a prioritized product backlog, managing delivery blockers, continuously assessing stakeholder feedback, and driving innovation for the Product Group.

The Product Group Owner should always consider how to maximize value, assess how the products and the delivery process can be continuously improved, contribute to a positive work environment, and ensure that work embodies the Agile principles of transparency, collaboration and engagement. The Product Group Owner will have a high level of interaction with both Technical and non-Technical Business Partners and Asset Owners, requiring a high level of skill in collaborative strategic vision and roadmap building, relationship management, change management, and communications, across all levels of executive leadership, up to and including at the SVP level.

Customer

• Partner with other Product Owners, Product Group Owners, Executive Product Owners, non-TDSA business & technology partners, and senior leaders to support the delivery of each segment's product visions through adoption of Digitization capabilities
• In alignment with the product vision and strategy and enterprise business priorities, create and maintain a backlog and continuously re-prioritize epics and features that will balance the needs of the various lines of business to provide the most value to the bank
• Develop broad relationships across different business segments, platforms, journeys, and technical teams. Continuously engage with key stakeholders on the Digitization delivery roadmap, ensuing alignment with their priorities/roadmaps
• Review performance analytics; recommend and champion strategies to enhance delivery of value
• Actively participate in key TD Scaled Agile ceremonies (PI Planning, QBR, SOS, Showcases, etc.), and other key non-Agile delivery ceremonies (Program Meetings, DRB, ERB, ESC, etc.)
• Proactively raise issues that impede the efficient delivery of business-driven initiatives, actively working to resolve for best possible outcome

Shareholder

• Ensure adherence to all delivery frameworks and methodologies, and applicable compliance requirements
• Ensure Product Group follows applicable internal and external requirements (e.g. financial controls, segregation of duties, transaction approvals and physical control of assets), while ensuring risks are identified and monitored, and key controls and processes are effectively managed
• Lead relationships with business lines / corporate and/or control functions to ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements
• Lead or contribute to cross-functional / enterprise initiatives as an organizational or subject matter expert helping to identify risk / provide guidance for complex situations
• Define the OKRs in partnership with Product Group Technical Lead and other stakeholders as required
• Protect the interests of the organization - identify and manage risks, and elevate nonstandard, high-risk transactions / activities as necessary
• Keep abreast of emerging industry trends, business needs/visions, and evolving regulatory requirements, assessing potential impacts to Digitization vision, strategy and backlog
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

Employee / Team

• Cultivate and model a culture of care, support colleague growth, make an impact at work and in our communities by leading with authenticity and supporting well-being to represent TD's brand
• Be a visible leader, coach and TD Scaled Agile/Scrum Champion
• Connect the alignment of colleagues' contributions with the TD Shared Commitments
• Build and retain an engaged and diverse team that embraces diversity of thought, creativity and curiosity; where every colleague and customer are valued, respected, and listened to; committed to a common goal and collaborate to move with speed to get things done
• Demonstrate inclusive leadership by taking meaningful action with intention to support colleagues and customers across all dimensions of diversity, including those from underrepresented communities, being actively anti-racist, attracting and retaining diverse slate of candidates, nurturing mutual respect, inclusivity of thought and collaboration to drive successful results
• Sustain, identify strong talent, recruit and develop a diverse talent pipeline of qualified workforce to innovate and maximize individual strengths to lead to a better business outcome
• Champion Pod/Product Group/Product Family skill and capability development through mentorship, feedback, and coaching, by sharing knowledge and experiences and leveraging best practices
• Enable a continuous learning culture, sharing of knowledge across the team, and drive the desire to innovate in the team
• Lead the Product Group through change and create an environment where the team feels psychologically safe to challenge current practices by modeling resiliency and flexibility, communicating a compelling vision with clarity
• Foster a high-performance culture by setting Pod, Product Group and Product Family targets and objectives, driving accountability and business results
• Manage employees in compliance with all human resources policies, procedures and guidelines of conduct

Breadth & Depth

• Oversee and lead a team of Pod Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, and Intake & Advocacy Managers for an area of significant risk, complexity or scope while growing talent, developing skills and capabilities to achieve career goals, support project / initiative success and achieve business results
• Provides coaching, mentorship and guidance to practitioners, business, executives within area of expertise
• Manages and oversees the overall discipline and strategy for the respective areas while aligning to the enterprise's best practices
• Integrates knowledge of the enterprise's overarching strategy in leading program design, policy formulation or operating standards within one or more areas of expertise
• Provides coaching, mentorship and guidance to practitioners, business, executives within area of expertise
• Partner to leadership team on the management of the portfolio and financials, with deep industry, external / internal, enterprise knowledge, recognizing and anticipating emerging trends and identifying operational efficiencies and opportunities with other business management / enterprise areas
• Facilitate key strategic