PRODUCT MANAGER

Business Development Bank of Canada; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Savings and Investment Plan (

Defined Benefit Pension Plan

Wellness & health care spending

Paid vacation

Five personal days

Sick days

Offices closed Dec 25–Jan 1

Hybrid work model

Learning, training, and development

Job summary

Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is seeking a Product Manager to own the incubator's impact. You will steer the end-to-end delivery, defend value with evidence, and act as the business voice while collaborating with UX researchers, data analysts, and engineers.

You will develop the product vision and roadmap, prioritize features, and drive agile cycles to deliver real outcomes for Canadian entrepreneurs in a rapidly evolving AI-driven banking space.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Product Manager, or a relevant mix of education and experience.
• Experience with Linear for product management (an asset).
• In-depth knowledge of Composable architecture and integration with third party vendors/systems.
• Hands-on experience with Agents and LLMs in your PM craft and strong opinions on evolution.
• Industry experience: collaborate with UX design, customer service, business development, SMEs, and developers to build and ship complex software.
• Growth mindset, curiosity, and openness to feedback.
• Built products customers love by helping them reach goals and relieve pain points.
• Understanding of commercial banking.

Responsibilities

• Be the voice of the business and own the incubator's outcomes end to end.
• Develop, own, and communicate the product vision and roadmap.
• Work with stakeholders to turn the vision into real product.
• Prioritize value and ROI with incomplete information.
• Collaborate with the team to deliver the vision into tangible products.
• Lead agile practices and manage milestones and deliverables.
• Navigate funding and scheduling conversations.

Skills

Product management experience

Linear for product management

Composable architecture

LLMs & agents in PM

Cross-functional collaboration

Growth mindset

User-centric product thinking

Commercial banking knowledge

Tools

Linear for PM

Job description

We are banking at another level. Choosing BDC as your employer means working in a healthy, inclusive, and skilled workplace that puts forward the best conditions to bring together unique teams where employees are empowered to act. It also means being at the centre of ambitious economic and financial projects to see further and to do things differently, to fuel the success of Canadian entrepreneurs. Choosing BDC as your employer also means:

• Employee Savings and Investment Plan where BDC matches part of your voluntary contributions


• Defined Benefit Pension Plan


• $750 wellness and health care spending account


• Paid vacation each year


• Five personal days


• Sick days as necessary


• Our offices are closed from December 25 to January 1


• Hybrid work model that truly balances work and personal life


• Opportunities for learning, training and development

Explore the BDC Way in our Culture Book. Canada is experiencing a period of intense economic and technological change that won't wait for traditional timelines. To adapt, BDC is founding a new AI-native incubator with the mission to discover new ways to support Canadian entrepreneurs. At the incubator, our goal isn't to study the future, it's to create it. To do this, we are recruiting a small team of experienced AI-native builders who will work on a blank canvas to reimagine how banking for small and medium-sized businesses works. We sit at the intersection of strategy, technology, and execution. We work with startup speed, challenge existing assumptions, and focus on delivering practical outcomes that will meaningfully change how BDC serves entrepreneurs. You will be joining a team with strong executive sponsorship and a mandate to experiment, learn quickly, and turn promising ideas into real solutions. Our success will not be measured by how many ideas we generate; it will be measured by the value we create for employees, clients, and Canadian businesses.

POSITION OVERVIEW

We're looking for a Product Manager who owns the impact of the incubator. This isn't a role that sits above the work and thinks big thoughts about the mid-to-long-term. You'll operate one to two cycles ahead of the team. We need someone who can see far enough to steer, but who is fundamentally an operator: the kind of person who gets things done, not just plans them. You're accountable for what the incubator ships and the value it creates. On a traditional team you'd lean on Product Owners — here, you won't have any. The team is autonomous and holds the PO work itself, but the buck stops with you. You own the outcome end to end. You're also the voice of the business. Our UX researcher owns the voice of the user, which frees you to own the numbers: you build and maintain our business case, our impact model, the costs, and the ROI. You're the one who can defend what we're doing with evidence, not enthusiasm.

CHALLENGES TO BE MET

• Be the voice of the business.


• Build and continuously update our business case — the impact, the numbers, the costs, the ROI — so we can make and defend decisions with real evidence.


• Develop, own, and communicate the product vision and roadmap.


• With no POs to hand this off to, you're accountable for it end to end.


• Assess and measure value and prioritize ruthlessly so the team focuses on the highest-value work aligned with our vision and BDC's priorities.


• Work shoulder to shoulder with the team and stakeholders to turn the vision into something real.


• Make great decisions in a timely way — often with incomplete information, and without waiting for certainty that isn't coming.


• Work in an Agile environment: continuously revisit the business needs, refine priorities, set milestones and deliverables, and surface opportunities and risks as things evolve.


• See the dependencies coming.


• Educate stakeholders on how the squad works (our WoW).


• Negotiate priorities and scope and stay active in funding and scheduling conversations.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Experience as a Product Manager, or a relevant mix of education and experience.


• Experience with the software Linear for product management (an asset)


• In-depth knowledge of Composable architecture and integration with third party vendors/systems


• Hand-on experience with Agents and LLMs in your craft as a product manager, and strong opinions on how it will evolve in the future


• Industry and Client Experience: You know how to work with UX Design, customer service, business development, subject matter experts, and developers to build and ship complex software. You've used user-centered design thinking, and you know how to prioritize the right features to create experiences BDC clients and internal users love. You're genuinely curious about how entrepreneurs' needs are evolving and the realities of their ecosystems.


• You have a growth mindset, you lead with curiosity, and you're open to feedback.


• You've built products customers love — by helping them reach their goals and removing their pain points.


• You understand commercial banking.

Skills and Influence

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, presentation, and leadership skills.


• Sharp analytical and problem-solving instincts.


• You can take complex information and make the whole room understand the vision and how we get there.


• You're a team player who builds lasting, trusting relationships across a range of stakeholders.


• You grow the team: you mentor others, you build morale, you share what works.


• Excellent organizational and time management skills.

Decision Making and Strategy

• You're at home in uncertainty.


• You have a real track record of making good calls with little information, lots of change, and a fast-moving environment — and adapting as new information lands.


• You lead data-driven decisions: getting to the root cause of behavior, quantifying issues, validating what's working, and spotting new opportunities.


• You break products down into MVPs that deliver the most customer value for the least work.


• You're deeply comfortable with AI on two fronts. First, as an AI-driven PM — you know what it means to practice the craft in 2026 and how to use AI to sharpen and augment your own work. Second, on AI-driven product — you understand what it takes to build products powered by AI: the risks, the opportunities, and how to actually operationalize them.

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Proudly one of Canada's Top 100 Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers, we are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible environment where all employees can thrive and feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work. If you require an accommodation to complete your application, please do not hesitate to contact us at [e-mail]. While we appreciate all applications, we advise that only the candidates selected to participate in the recruitment process will be contacted.

BDC is a bank unlike any other. We are the only bank dedicated exclusively to the development of Canadian businesses. The only institution whose purpose is to promote the growth of the Canadian economy by focusing on the success of small and medium-sized businesses, with a human touch and a genuine presence. At BDC, we're changing people's and businesses' lives for the better. That's what makes us unique as a bank. That's why we are banking at another level.