About the Role
As Sr. Product Manager, Fund Management, you will own the product vision, roadmap, and delivery for the Fund Management squad. This cross-functional team is accountable for transforming how Purpose runs its investment fund operations, moving fund accounting, performance, trading operations, and data onto a single governed platform. This role requires building a product roadmap rather than executing a predefined one.
Responsibilities
- Translate product vision and strategy into an actionable, sequenced roadmap across the master-data spine and the valuation, activity, investor, and disclosure pipelines
- Partner with investment operations, fund accounting, data engineering, and compliance to deeply understand workflows, source systems, and regulatory constraints
- Decide what gets built and in what order – picking a small number of high-leverage workstreams against a broad operational surface and sequencing them deliberately
- Define and prioritize requirements that meet operational, regulatory, and analytical standards
- Write clear, detailed user stories and acceptance criteria that engineering can execute on with confidence
- Pressure-test major design decisions – naming the alternatives considered, the assumptions made, and what would prove them wrong
- Act as a close partner to the engineering and data leads on priorities and trade-offs, leading planning and review sessions as the product authority in the squad
- Track delivery against clear, business-language measures of success and report progress to stakeholders on a regular cadence
- Own the outcome of a daily NAV that is correct, delivered on time, observable, and defensible across more than 100 funds, replacing manual checks with automated assertions
- Own a single surface for returns, attribution, peer comparisons, and AUM and flow time series, consolidating work spread across parallel analytics tools
- Own the primary record of fund holdings, positions, NAVs, flows, and activity events that both fund accounting and performance sit on, moving the business to a single governed foundation
- Define the vision and roadmap for the master-data source and the pipelines – valuation and NAV, activity, investor, and disclosure and tax
- Establish better ways for external stakeholders to access with our funds when necessary, creating seamless experiences
- Own the lineage that makes every fund number traceable to its source, providing one auditable path
Requirements
- Meaningful experience in asset management, fund operations, or fund accounting, or a closely adjacent domain
- Understanding of NAV, fund flows, performance and attribution, the roles of custodians, transfer agents, and sub-advisors, and the disclosure and regulatory obligations of a Canadian fund manager
- Ability to identify problems worth solving before defining solutions
- Clear point of view on prioritization, defensible with data and evidence
- Comfortable in the detail; able to have an intelligent conversation with an engineer about data models, pipelines, schema design, or system integration
- Ability to build trust quickly with engineering, operations, compliance, and senior leaders
- Ability to align diverse groups around a shared direction without formal authority
- Actively look for opportunities to use AI and automation to replace manual checks, automate validation and reconciliation, and make fund data observable and self-monitoring
- Write clearly and concisely; user stories are specific; product briefs do not leave room for ambiguity; reasoning is defensible by construction; stakeholder updates are direct and evidence-based
- Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada
- Immigration sponsorship is not offered for this role
Skills
- Product vision
- Roadmap development
- Product delivery
- Stakeholder management
- Prioritization
- User story writing
- Acceptance criteria definition
- Data modeling
- Pipeline design
- Schema design
- System integration
- AI and automation
- Communication
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $125,000 - $145,000
Benefits
- Competitive compensation including equity program
- Comprehensive group health and dental benefits
- Life insurance
- Lifestyle Spending Account
- Flexible paid time-off policy
- Paid parental leave for eligible employees with a top-up
- Generous Group RRSP matching
- Optional TFSA program
- Training opportunities
- Tuition support
About the Company
- Purpose Unlimited is an independent financial services company with an unrelenting focus on customer-centric innovation, delivered through technology-driven solutions.
- Led by entrepreneur Som Seif, the company is developing a diversified product platform aimed at addressing historically underserved segments of the market.
- Purpose Unlimited’s businesses include Purpose Investments, Advisor Solutions by Purpose, and Driven.
- Purpose Investments is an innovation-driven asset management company with over $20 billion under management, offering both managed and quantitative investment products.
- Purpose Investments’ goal is to constantly innovate, and make investing simple, intuitive and affordable for everyone.
- One of Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers' 2023 & 2024.
- An innovative, people-first, financial services firm that values entrepreneurialism.
- We may use artificial intelligence technology to assist in screening, assessing, or selecting applicants for this position. Final hiring decisions are made by qualified human reviewers.
Equal Opportunity
- Purpose Investments is an equal employer, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and barrier-free work environment for all employees and candidates.
- We encourage all qualified candidates to apply and if accommodation is required during any stage of the recruitment process, please contact any member of the People and Culture team at PeopleCultureTeam@purpose-unlimited.com.
- We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.
