Product Manager

Linedata • Toronto, IA

11d

About The Position

The Linedata Capitalstream Product Manager manages Capitalstream product capabilities throughout the product lifecycle, from initial concept and market research through requirements definition, product design, and collaboration with engineering. The role is responsible for delivering product plans on time and with quality, combining lending-domain expertise with enterprise software product management. The Product Manager works closely with sales, marketing, professional services, and support to help meet revenue and customer satisfaction goals while ensuring product investments support company strategy and goals.

The role includes understanding customer and market needs, translating insights into product opportunities, contributing to the product roadmap, and prioritizing opportunities by business value, customer impact, risk, dependencies, and delivery effort. The Product Manager leads customer discovery and requirements workshops, creates product requirements and specifications, maintains traceability through testing, collaborates with engineering on solution design, and validates requirements and early builds with stakeholders.

The Product Manager builds customer and cross-functional relationships, secures alignment on objectives and priorities, and serves as product owner throughout the product lifecycle, supporting development and quality assurance teams. The role also supports product training, documentation, release notes, implementation guidance, sales and marketing, budgeting and forecasting, and relationships with systems and content providers, integrators, and technology companies. The position requires willingness to travel 5–10% of the time.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree; an MBA is preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in financial services, preferably related to commercial lending, risk, or underwriting.
• 10+ years of experience working with business lending or consumer lending solutions.
• 5+ years of experience as an enterprise software Product Manager for a Fintech.
• 5+ years of experience with Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira.
• Deep knowledge of the lending lifecycle, including origination, underwriting, credit assessment and approval, pricing, collateral, documentation, and funding.
• Proven experience managing the full product lifecycle and translating customer and market needs into product capabilities.
• Familiarity with software release processes, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to collaborate, lead, and influence cross-functional teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Working knowledge of generative and agentic AI capabilities and demonstrated ability to identify and implement relevant lending use cases.
• Experience evaluating third-party providers and managing third-party relationships.
• Strategic thinking, planning, and execution skills.
• Ability to work independently with little supervision.
• Willingness to travel 5–10% of the time.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment as a team player.

Nice To Haves

• MBA.
• Financial services experience related to commercial lending, risk, or underwriting.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer and market needs, market trends, and competitive offerings through experience, customer engagement, stakeholder feedback, and market research.
• Translate customer and market insights into defined product opportunities.
• Contribute to the Capitalstream product roadmap in alignment with company strategy, customer value, and commercial objectives.
• Prioritize opportunities based on business value, customer impact, risk, dependencies, and delivery effort.
• Lead customer interviews, discovery sessions, and cross-functional requirements workshops.
• Translate business needs into product requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and testing strategies.
• Maintain traceability between business objectives, requirements, functional specifications, and testing results.
• Collaborate with engineering to evaluate solution options, balancing usability, feasibility, effort, maintainability, and consistency.
• Validate requirements, functional specifications, and early builds with stakeholders.
• Build customer and cross-functional relationships and obtain stakeholder alignment on objectives, requirements, solutions, and priorities.
• Serve as product owner throughout the product lifecycle, supporting and guiding development and quality assurance teams.
• Partner with professional services, account management, and support to identify implementation and support challenges for product planning.
• Provide product training, documentation, release notes, and implementation guidance.
• Support sales and marketing with product capability descriptions and value propositions.
• Contribute to product budgeting, forecasting, and investment decisions.
• Develop and support alliances with systems and content providers, integrators, and technology companies.
• Maintain market and technical knowledge through professional publications, networks, and associations.
• Travel 5–10% of the time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior