Senior Product Manager

Join a Challenger

Being a traditional bank just isn’t our thing. We are big believers in innovating the banking experience because we believe Canadians deserve better options, and we challenge ourselves and our teams to creatively transform what’s possible in banking. Our team is made up of inquisitive and agile minds that find smarter ways of doing things. If you’re not afraid of taking on big challenges and redefining the future, you belong with us. You’ll get to work with people who will encourage you to reach new heights. We like to keep things fun, ask questions and learn together.

We are a big (and growing!) family. Overall we serve more than 670,000 people across Canada through Equitable Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank™, and have been around for more than 50 years. Equitable Bank's wholly-owned subsidiary, Concentra Bank, supports credit unions across Canada that serve more than six million members. Together we have over $125 billion in combined assets under management and administration, with a clear mandate to drive change in Canadian banking to enrich people's lives. Our customers have named our EQ Bank digital platform ( eqbank.ca ) one of the top banks in Canada on the Forbes World's Best Banks list since 2021.

The Work

Reporting to the Group product manager, Digital Banking and working alongside senior management, the Senior Product Manager is responsible for devising strategies and launching agile initiatives to develop Equitable Bank’s enterprise-wide customer data platform. Leveraging an ability to organize and motivate teams within an incremental delivery environment, she / he will work with Product lines, Bank Stakeholders and Software Developers to translate customer journey directives into actionable backlog deliverables, and follow through to completion.

The Core Responsibilities Of The Job :

• Assisting in development of strategy and roadmaps for service functionality in all channels, including financial / experience justification, overall design and customer experience
• Deliver new products and features in digital channels
• Assist in the running of the customer data platform and services 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 channel
• Managing various vendor relationships
• 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
• Drive the delivery of business value, communicate progress, elicit feedback and enable stakeholder reviews for validation in the process
• Review QA test plans to align with acceptance criteria, facilitate testing and review of early builds for adherence to functional requirements
• Manage engagement with bank stakeholders and effectively communicate product release contents and expected product capabilities / customer journey
• Identify and manage business activities (operating model, training, communications, etc.) required to support agile initiatives
• Facilitate problem solving on a day-today basis as required, working closely with development on implementation challenges
• Coach team members and help with their development / desired outcomes as required

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What we offer (For full-time permanent roles)

Competitive discretionary bonus

Market leading RRSP match program