Product Manager, Digital Banking (18 Month Contract)

EQ Bank | Canada's Challenger Bank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

EQ Bank is seeking a Product Manager to lead strategies and projects for online and mobile banking, reporting to the Director of Product and Channel Management. You will optimize customer service across digital channels and work with senior management to drive digital initiatives.

Responsibilities include developing roadmaps for channel functionality, delivering new products, ensuring uptime, and collaborating with marketing, sales, and vendors.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Canadian Financial Institution experience leading online and/or mobile banking channels.
• Degree in Commerce/Management/Economics/Finance/Engineering/CS; MBA or other graduate degree a plus.
• Familiarity with consumer technology and digital UX principles.
• Proven track record delivering customer-facing service enhancements at scale.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to initiate and execute projects.

Responsibilities

• Assist in strategy and roadmaps for service functionality across channels, with business cases.
• Lead delivery of new products/features in digital channels.
• Support day-to-day operations of online/mobile channels and ensure uptime.
• Maintain industry and competitive awareness and vendor relationships.
• Collaborate with marketing, sales, and vendors to optimize digital leads/offers.
• Work with legal/compliance/fraud to protect customers and Equitable.

Skills

Product management

Digital banking

Project management

User experience design

Communication

Vendor management

Agile/Scrum

Strategic thinking

Education

Post-Secondary Degree in Commerce/Management/Economics/Finance/Engineering/CS

MBA or graduate degree

Job description

Purpose of Job

Reporting to the Director, Product and Channel Management, Digital Banking and working alongside senior management, the Product Manager is responsible for devising strategies and leading projects to optimize customer service via Equitable Bank’s digital channels – specifically online banking and mobile banking.

Main Activities:

• Assisting in development of strategy and roadmaps for service functionality in all channels, including financial/experience justification, overall design and customer experience
• Assist in the delivery of new products and features in digital channels
• Assist in the running of the digital channels day-to-day, ensuring their availability to customers
• Maintaining industry and competitive awareness
• Supporting the team in delivering a leading, intimate customer experience in the digital channels
• Driving Digital Banking projects with internal groups and vendors
• Working with marketing and sales on best way to deliver leads and offers in digital service channels
• Working with the call center to ensure smooth operations and low deflected call volume
• Managing various vendor relationships
• Working with legal, compliance, fraud, etc. to ensure protection of Equitable, and especially our customers

Knowledge/Skill Requirements:

• Post-Secondary Degree in Commerce, Management, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, etc. MBA or other graduate degree a plus.
• 5+ years of Canadian Financial Institution experience leading online and/or mobile banking channels.
• Familiarity and expertise with consumer technology, both common and leading.
• Proven track record of delivering customer-facing service enhancements on a large scale.
• Familiarity with user experience & design principles, specifically for digital interactions.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Proven ability to initiate and execute projects.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Project management experience.
• Familiarity with the mobile ecosystem (app stores, mobile payment technologies, etc.) is ideal.

Accountability:

• As part of a team, responsible for: customer service experience in online/mobile channels; strategy and roadmaps for service functionality in all channels, including business cases and other justification
• Day-to-day support of online and mobile channels, including monitoring and ensuring uptime and performance
• Drive and manage projects end to end
• Assist in making support decisions for digital channels, i.e., browser support, mobile device/OS support
• Maintaining awareness of industry developments and competitor offerings Vendor management, especially core technology providers
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, legal requirements
• Play a leadership role in the Scrum team to ensure that capabilities are in-scope, on-time and of high quality
• Translate directives and customer needs into backlog items. Serve as the primary source of external information for the Scrum teams, offering clear definitions of the targeted capability, the intended value to the customer and functional/non-functional requirements.
• Assist in the development of product roadmaps. Author, refine and approve backlog items with clearly articulated acceptance criteria.
• Manage and prioritize backlog contents, ensuring sufficient depth of groomed items for development consumption and commitment.