Product Manager, Digital Banking (18 Month Contract)

Kinvie; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Equitable Bank is seeking a Product Manager to shape strategy and lead initiatives for online and mobile banking, ensuring seamless customer experiences across digital channels.

You will collaborate with senior management to develop roadmaps, drive projects end-to-end, and partner with marketing, sales, and vendors to optimize digital service delivery.

Qualifications

• Requires a degree in a business/technical field and 5+ years leading online and/or mobile banking initiatives.
• Experience delivering customer-facing service enhancements at scale in financial services.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and roadmaps for digital service functionality across online and mobile banking.
• Drive digital banking projects with cross-functional teams and vendors.
• Ensure uptime and performance of online/mobile channels.
• Collaborate with marketing and sales on digital leads and offers.
• Manage vendor relationships and ensure regulatory/compliance alignment.
• Serve as Scrum team lead to maintain scope, timeliness and quality, translating customer needs into backlog items.

Skills

Strategy & roadmaps

Customer experience

Project management

Stakeholder communication

User experience design principles

Attention to detail

Verbal and written communication

Scrum / Agile leadership

Education

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

MBA or graduate degree a plus

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.