Senior Product Manager, Mobile Experience

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity & Inclusion

Accessibility at work

Upskilling opportunities

Competitive rewards

Community engagement

Job summary

Scotiabank is seeking a Senior Digital Product Manager for the Mobile Platform & Experience to lead the evolution of our mobile and authenticated digital platform capabilities across iOS, Android, and web ecosystems. You will shape the long-term platform roadmap and drive modernization in partnership with engineering, design, analytics, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, reusable experiences.

The role emphasizes platform health, mobile-first, and client-centric experiences, balancing

Qualifications

• 5+ years in digital product management or platform product ownership for mobile apps.
• Strong understanding of mobile ecosystems (iOS/Android) and web technologies.
• Experience with React, Node.js, APIs, and microapp architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define platform roadmap for mobile and digital capabilities across iOS, Android, and web.
• Prioritize epics, features, and user stories for platform backlogs.
• Lead discovery with engineering and design to shape scalable approaches.
• Partner with native mobile, web, and microapp teams to align delivery.
• Ensure performance, reliability, accessibility, and security considerations.

Skills

Product leadership

Mobile platforms

Platform modernization

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder management

Technical fluency (mobile/web)

Tools

React

Node.js

APIs

Microapps

Job description

Requisition ID: 262764

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Role

We are looking for a strategic, technically strong, and client-focused product leader to join our Scotia Digital team as a Senior Digital Product Manager, Mobile Platform & Experience. In this role, you will lead the evolution of our mobile and authenticated digital platform capabilities across iOS, Android, and web ecosystems.

The successful candidate will help shape the long-term platform roadmap, drive modernization initiatives, and partner closely with engineering, design, analytics, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, performant, and reusable digital experiences.

You will play a critical role in defining how the mobile banking experience evolves through platform modernization, native and microapp enablement, performance optimization, reusable frameworks, and emerging industry capabilities.

The ideal candidate combines strong product ownership capabilities with deep technical fluency across mobile and web technologies, modern architecture patterns, and digital platform strategy.

Is this role right for you? - In this role you will:

• Lead Platform Product Strategy & Roadmap
• Define and evolve the strategic roadmap for mobile and digital platform capabilities across iOS, Android, and web applications.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives focused on scalability, performance, resiliency, reusability, and maintainability.
• Identify and evaluate industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive experiences to inform future-state platform evolution.
• Champion mobile-first and client-centric experiences while balancing technical feasibility, operational excellence, and speed to market.
• Develop strategic narratives, business cases, roadmap artifacts, and executive-ready materials that clearly articulate value, outcomes, dependencies, and investment priorities.

Technical Product Management & Delivery Leadership

• Own and prioritize platform backlogs, translating strategic direction into epics, features, and actionable user stories.
• Lead discovery and solutioning activities with engineering and design teams to define scalable technical approaches and delivery plans.
• Partner closely with development teams across native mobile, web, and microapp ecosystems to ensure alignment on delivery priorities and technical direction.
• Guide initiatives spanning native iOS and Android applications, React-based experiences, Node.js services, APIs, and microapp architectures.
• Ensure capabilities are delivered with strong consideration for performance, reliability, accessibility, security, analytics, and operational scalability.
• Support delivery planning, release management, dependency management, and incremental value realization across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Facilitate prioritization discussions across competing business and technical demands.

Platform Modernization & Experience Evolution

• Drive initiatives focused on mobile platform health, modernization, UI framework evolution, and experience consistency across channels.
• Help define reusable platform capabilities, design patterns, component strategies, and governance approaches that accelerate delivery across teams.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve app performance, stability, and technical health metrics.
• Contribute to the evolution of native and hybrid mobile/web strategies, including microapp enablement and modular architecture approaches.
• Advocate for simplification, scalability, and long-term platform sustainability in product and technology decision-making.

Stakeholder Leadership & Cross-functional Collaboration

• Partner with Design, Business Lines, Engineering, Marketing, and Analytics teams to align deliverables to strategic priorities.
• Influence and align senior stakeholders on strategic direction, sequencing, and implementation approaches.
• Communicate roadmap progress, delivery outcomes, technical trade-offs, risks, and dependencies clearly to leadership audiences.
• Facilitate collaboration across cross-functional agile teams to drive execution excellence and continuous improvement.
• Ability to pivot quickly and manage roadmap and deliverable prioritization.
• Mentor and guide team members through strong product management practices, strategic thinking, and client-centric decision making.
• Prepare materials for senior leadership forums, business reviews, and strategic planning cycles.

Skills

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? - We'd love to work with you if you have:

Technical & Product Expertise

• 5+ years experience working within digital product management, technical product ownership, or platform product management roles focused on mobile apps.
• Deep understanding of mobile application ecosystems, including native iOS and Android platforms.
• Experience working with modern web and mobile technologies including React, Node.js, APIs, and microapp architectures.
• Strong understanding of platform modernization, scalable architecture patterns, performance optimization, and reusable component strategies.
• Expert-level understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies is considered a significant asset.
• Deep knowledge of authenticated digital experiences, enterprise-scale applications, and high-availability platforms.
• Experience defining KPIs, OKRs, and success metrics tied to platform health, delivery efficiency, and client experience outcomes.

Leadership & Strategic Thinking

• Strong strategic thinking, prioritization, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders in complex organizations.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
• Ability to operate effectively within ambiguity and drive alignment across competing priorities.
• Passion for digital innovation, emerging technology trends, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives from concept through execution and value realization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within financial services, fintech, or other highly regulated digital environments.
• Familiarity with mobile analytics, experimentation, observability, and performance monitoring frameworks.
• Experience supporting platform governance, modernization programs, or enterprise transformation initiatives.

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship-We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employees to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations- We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskillingthrough online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose towork from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, Humans of Digital and much more!

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know.

We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.