Director, Product Management - Simplii Financial

CIBC•Toronto, ON

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Simplii Financial is a modern, customer-first organization, and our Product Managers are at the forefront of shaping vision and strategy for their pillars, executing compelling roadmaps, and keeping the customer at the heart of every decision. As Director, Product Management, you ensure the quality, capability, and consistency of the Product Management craft across the organization. You are responsible for hiring, developing, coaching, and retaining Product Managers at all levels, setting the bar for excellence and ensuring they have the skills and judgment to succeed in a complex banking environment. This is a player-coach role, where you set standards, frameworks, and expectations, while also providing hands-on coaching and support when needed. You’ll collaborate closely with leaders across CX, Digital Expansion, UX/UI, Growth, and Business Analysis to ensure the operating model functions seamlessly. At Simplii Financial, we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You'll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you'll spend 2-3 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote.

Requirements

Deep experience in product management and leadership.
8 or more years of experience in product management, including meaningful experience leading and developing people in an agile or cross-functional environment, ideally within financial services, fintech, or another regulated industry.
Put the customer first, always.
Hold the bar, and your team holds it because they have watched you hold it.
Lead through craft.
Have been a product manager at a senior level and know what excellent looks like.
Build people, not just roadmaps.
Invest in the growth of every person on your team, give feedback with honesty and care, and foster an environment where practitioners develop faster than they expected.
Fluent across disciplines: comfortable discussing API design constraints, usability research, design logic, engineering, analytics, and research.
Obsess over the details: know that great products are made in the details.
Operate well in complexity.
Values matter to you.
Bring your real self to work, and live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.

Nice To Haves

Experience in financial services, fintech, or another regulated industry.

Responsibilities

Establish and evolve Product Management frameworks, operating principles, and decision-making guidelines.
Define what good and great look like across product strategy, discovery, delivery, and outcomes, driving consistency in how Product Managers think, communicate, and operate without enforcing rigid processes.
Act as a steward of product quality, judgment, and discipline, actively closing the gap between where the team is and where it needs to be.
Own hiring for Product Management roles, including role design, leveling, interviewing, and bar-setting.
Define and maintain the Product Management career ladder, role expectations, and promotion criteria.
Coach Product Managers on product sense, strategy, discovery, execution, and decision-making.
Identify skill gaps and design targeted development plans, training, and learning paths to strengthen every practitioner on the team.
Help product owners make better, faster, and more confident decisions.
Build a team where customer centricity is a practice, not just a value statement.
Deploy practitioners into squads and shape how they operate within them, establishing ways of working, decision-making norms, and standards for good practice.
Ensure delivery skill is valued alongside strategic thinking.

Benefits

Competitive salary
Incentive pay
Banking benefits
Benefits program
Defined benefit pension plan
Employee share purchase plan
Vacation offering
Wellbeing support
MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program
Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development