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About the Role

The Product Manager, Core Payments, Digital will explore, define, and deliver the strategic direction for emerging payment assets, specifically stablecoins and tokenized deposits. This role is responsible for understanding the evolving landscape of digital currencies and DLT, ensuring that initiatives in this space are practical, efficient, and responsive to market and regulatory demands.

Responsibilities

• Develop and continuously refine the strategic direction of the Core Payments Product portfolio.
• Lead the creation and maintenance of a multi-year product road map.
• Partner with platform product managers on the development of product strategy, prioritization and road mapping frameworks.
• Translate high-level strategic objectives into actionable product initiatives and measurable outcomes.
• Establish and manage prioritization frameworks to balance innovation, operational needs, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide expert advice and analysis to Payments Product leadership.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders in Operations, Technology, Risk, Finance, and Regulatory Affairs.
• Conduct ongoing market and ecosystem research to identify trends, competitive dynamics, and emerging opportunities.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of members’ business models, operational challenges, and regulatory obligations.
• Create and maintain analytical models, dashboards, or frameworks to track key metrics on adoption, performance, and market evolution.
• Lead the development of business cases that include financial analysis.
• Provide insights to inform the evolution of operational rules, standards, and processes.
• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of the product road map.
• Collaborate with Platform Product Managers (Retail Payments and Lynx) to jointly develop and maintain synchronized product road maps.
• Facilitate portfolio governance forums with senior management.
• Partner with Product Managers, Operations and Technology teams to ensure road map initiatives are scoped, resourced, and sequenced.
• Monitor key success metrics and report on progress against defined goals.
• Contribute to the annual planning cycle by translating strategic priorities into deliverables, investment requirements, and implementation plans.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with member financial institutions, regulators, and ecosystem partners.
• Represent Payments Canada in strategic working groups, industry committees, and external forums.
• Lead and facilitate workshops or consultations with members and partners.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to internal leadership and external stakeholders.
• Work in close partnership with the Platform Product Managers for Retail Payments and Lynx to enable cohesive strategy-to-execution alignment.
• Support the transition from strategy to delivery by providing clarity on objectives, scope, and success metrics.
• Participate in steering committees or project task forces.
• Promote consistent adoption of product management and strategic planning best practices.
• Dedicate a minimum of 5–10 days annually to professional development.
• Actively contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor or support peers by sharing insights and tools.

Requirements

• Expertise in developing and maintaining strategic roadmap, translating long-term vision into phased, actionable delivery plans.
• Ability to think beyond the immediate launch, demonstrating an understanding of technical scalability, business case development, and long-term operating modes.
• Strong P and L mindset by developing and defending robust business cases.
• Proficiency in defining critical success factors (CSF) and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Highly capable business acumen, with specific experience in digital, payment, and financial technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and articulate complex technical architectures, data models, and integrations.
• Capable of engaging credibly with engineering leads regarding trade-offs and scalability considerations.
• Knowledge of various project delivery methodologies.
• Strategic and Analytical Thinker: Embraces complexity, thinks creatively, and understands the multi-faceted impacts of policy decisions.
• Exceptional Communicator: Possesses excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Effective Influencer and Conflict Mediator: Proven ability to mediate conflicts, particularly those arising between product priorities and resource capacity.
• Adaptive Leader and Mentor: Exhibits the ability to adjust leadership style based on the maturity and complexity of tasks and the individual needs of team members.
• Committed to Continuous Improvement: Dedicated to continuous learning, skills development, and professional growth.
• Occasional travel will be required.
• Bilingualism is considered an asset.
• Eligibility to successfully complete background checks.

Skills

• Digital asset strategy
• Product management
• Strategic planning
• Blockchain
• Distributed ledger technology (DLT)
• Stablecoins
• Tokenized deposits
• Payment systems (clearing, settlement, retail payments)
• Canadian payment ecosystem
• Strategic thinking
• Commercial acumen
• Financial business case development (P&L, ROI, cost-benefit)
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Data synthesis
• Influencing decision-making
• Critical thinking
• Collaboration
• Independent work

Location

• Hybrid (remote/office)

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Minimum seven (7) to ten (10) years of experience in consulting, payments, transaction banking, fintech or related field
• At least three (3) years in digital asset strategy, product management or strategic planning roles

Education Level

• University degree (or college diploma) in Business, Engineering, Finance, Computer Science or related field
• MBA or advanced degree preferred

Salary/Compensations

• Target starting rate for this role is $119,850

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Annual variable bonus
• Defined contribution pension plan with employer matching percentage
• Comprehensive health and dental benefit coverage
• Mental health coverage
• Life insurance
• Health spending account
• Minimum four weeks paid vacation
• Sick and personal days
• December holiday shutdown
• Cultural holiday observance days
• 26 weeks of paid maternity and parental leave top-up
• Rewards and recognition program
• Access to office gym facilities
• Internal and external professional development opportunities
• Fun team and organizational events
• Monthly all staff forums led by our Executive Leadership Team

About the Company

• Payments Canada is at the forefront of the Canadian payment ecosystem, making payments easier, smarter and safer for all Canadians.
• We own and operate payment systems that process hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of payment transactions every business day.
• We adhere to a set of values: Inspire trust, build community and enable change.
• Our culture fosters authenticity, collaboration, innovation and development.
• We empower one another, make meaningful contributions that not only impact the organization, but our country!
• We develop and nurture meaningful connections that drive innovation in our ecosystem.

Equal Opportunity

• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
• Our recruitment process uses automated tools, but not generative AI, to objectively screen and evaluate applications.
• We are committed to making everyone feel they can be themselves and thrive at work.
• We are committed to employment equity and actively encourage applications from women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and visible minorities.
• If selected for an interview, please advise us if you require special accommodation by emailing hrinfo@payments.ca.
• Preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.