Senior Manager, Product Manager, GCM Transformation

Scotiabank; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Scotiabank in Dallas is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead execution and roadmap delivery for a Capital Markets product or business capability. You will translate strategy into actionable requirements, maintain a prioritized backlog, and partner with business and technology teams to deliver capabilities that drive measurable business outcomes.

The role requires 5+ years in Product Management, Business Analysis, Capital Markets, Operations, or Technology, with strong Capital Markets

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Business Analysis, Capital Markets, Operations, or Technology.
• Strong understanding of Capital Markets products, trading workflows, post-trade processing, or market infrastructure.
• Experience managing product backlogs and defining business requirements in Agile environments.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into actionable product requirements.
• Experience working with cross-functional business and technology teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Execute against the product roadmap established by the Senior Product Manager.
• Translate strategic objectives into prioritized initiatives, epics, and deliverable features.
• Ensure product development activities remain aligned with business priorities and expected outcomes.
• Support release planning and roadmap management across multiple delivery teams.
• Track delivery progress, dependencies, risks, and impediments.
• Own and maintain the product backlog.
• Prioritize backlog items based on business value, stakeholder input, regulatory requirements, and roadmap commitments.
• Ensure backlog items are well-defined, actionable, and ready for development.
• Conduct ongoing backlog refinement activities with business and technology partners.
• Manage competing priorities while maintaining alignment to agreed product objectives.
• Gather, analyze, and document business requirements.
• Define epics, user stories, features, and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to validate requirements and solution options.
• Ensure requirements are complete, testable, and aligned with business objectives.
• Support the development and execution of user acceptance testing.
• Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Architects, and Delivery teams throughout the development lifecycle.
• Support sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and release activities.
• Clarify business requirements and acceptance criteria for development teams.
• Facilitate timely decision-making to enable efficient delivery.
• Monitor sprint outcomes and support continuous improvement efforts.
• Develop strong working relationships with Front Office, Operations, Technology, Risk, Finance, and Compliance stakeholders.
• Serve as a key liaison between business users and delivery teams.
• Gather feedback from users and stakeholders to improve product capabilities.
• Communicate feature progress, release plans, and delivery status.
• Escalate issues and decisions requiring Senior Product Manager support.
• Monitor feature adoption and usage metrics.
• Collect user feedback and identify enhancement opportunities.
• Support measurement of business outcomes associated with delivered capabilities.
• Assist in tracking KPI performance and benefits realization.
• Recommend improvements based on user behavior, operational metrics, and stakeholder feedback.
• Ensure delivered features comply with regulatory, operational risk, and control requirements.
• Support governance processes throughout the product lifecycle.
• Identify delivery risks and collaborate with stakeholders on mitigation plans.
• Maintain appropriate documentation and audit trails for product decisions and requirements.

Skills

Product management

Business analysis

Capital markets

Agile backlog

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or Computer Science

Job description

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Title: Senior Manager, Product Manager, GCM Transformation

Requisition ID: 277058

Salary Range: -

Please note that the Salary Range shown is a guideline only. Salary offered may vary based on factors, including, but not limited to, the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.

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

Purpose

The Product Manager is responsible for managing product execution and roadmap delivery for a Capital Markets product or business capability. Reporting to the Senior Product Manager, the role translates product strategy into actionable requirements, maintains a prioritized backlog, and partners with business and technology teams to deliver capabilities that drive measurable business outcomes. The incumbent owns business requirements, defines epics, features, and acceptance criteria, and supports sprint and release planning to ensure delivery aligns with product objectives, user needs, and organizational priorities.

What You'll Do

Product Execution & Roadmap Delivery

• Execute against the product roadmap established by the Senior Product Manager.
• Translate strategic objectives into prioritized initiatives, epics, and deliverable features.
• Ensure product development activities remain aligned with business priorities and expected outcomes.
• Support release planning and roadmap management across multiple delivery teams.
• Track delivery progress, dependencies, risks, and impediments.

Backlog Management

• Own and maintain the product backlog.
• Prioritize backlog items based on business value, stakeholder input, regulatory requirements, and roadmap commitments.
• Ensure backlog items are well-defined, actionable, and ready for development.
• Conduct ongoing backlog refinement activities with business and technology partners.
• Manage competing priorities while maintaining alignment to agreed product objectives.

Requirements & Feature Definition

• Gather, analyze, and document business requirements.
• Define epics, user stories, features, and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to validate requirements and solution options.
• Ensure requirements are complete, testable, and aligned with business objectives.
• Support the development and execution of user acceptance testing.

Agile Delivery Support

• Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Architects, and Delivery teams throughout the development lifecycle.
• Support sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and release activities.
• Clarify business requirements and acceptance criteria for development teams.
• Facilitate timely decision-making to enable efficient delivery.
• Monitor sprint outcomes and support continuous improvement efforts.

Stakeholder Management

• Develop strong working relationships with Front Office, Operations, Technology, Risk, Finance, and Compliance stakeholders.
• Serve as a key liaison between business users and delivery teams.
• Gather feedback from users and stakeholders to improve product capabilities.
• Communicate feature progress, release plans, and delivery status.
• Escalate issues and decisions requiring Senior Product Manager support.

Product Adoption & Performance

• Monitor feature adoption and usage metrics.
• Collect user feedback and identify enhancement opportunities.
• Support measurement of business outcomes associated with delivered capabilities.
• Assist in tracking KPI performance and benefits realization.
• Recommend improvements based on user behavior, operational metrics, and stakeholder feedback.

Risk Management & Governance

• Ensure delivered features comply with regulatory, operational risk, and control requirements.
• Support governance processes throughout the product lifecycle.
• Identify delivery risks and collaborate with stakeholders on mitigation plans.
• Maintain appropriate documentation and audit trails for product decisions and requirements.

What You’ll Bring

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Business Analysis, Capital Markets, Operations, or Technology.
• Strong understanding of Capital Markets products, trading workflows, post-trade processing, or market infrastructure.
• Experience managing product backlogs and defining business requirements in Agile environments.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into actionable product requirements.
• Experience working with cross-functional business and technology teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Interested?

If your experience is closely related but doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we do encourage you to apply - you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank!

At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That’s why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.

What’s in it for you?

Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work – and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs.

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.

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