About the Role
The Go to Market Manager, Oversight and Ecosystem Integration is responsible for driving the operational market readiness, adoption, and scale of the Real-Time Rail infrastructure and ongoing Payments Canada initiatives. This role is crucial for ensuring the payment infrastructure, which underpins the Canadian financial system and economy, is functional and scalable.
Responsibilities
- Manage the day-to-day governance, documentation, and process administration of the Ecosystem Partnership Development framework.
- Track internal relationship lead accountabilities to ensure role clarity and maintain operational consistency.
- Establish and maintain centralized tracking mechanisms for priority discussions.
- Establish and maintain contractual requirements, pricing and fees, and fee collection.
- Establish and maintain ongoing monitoring for compliance to contractual obligations, brand standards, policies, and rules.
- Coordinate operational tracking and alignment across defined ecosystem categories.
- Coordinate GTM operational tracking and alignment across departments.
- Support internal relationship owners in structuring, documenting, and guiding engagements with industry anchors and platform vendors.
- Ensure third-party solutions, competitive services, and systemic fraud requirements are systematically logged, organized, and documented.
- Collaborate with internal product, relationship, and delivery owners to channel team enthusiasm and new business models into actionable workstreams.
- Provide direct supervision, guidance, objective setting, and performance leadership to reporting Analysts.
- Identify and route policy, Rules, public relations, and corporate governance matters to respective internal teams.
- Manage the structural definition, aggregation, and ongoing tracking of strategic KPIs.
- Supervise the end-to-end collection of progress data to assemble regular status updates and operational progress reports.
- Translate complex updates into clear, concise executive-level dashboards.
- Develop, implement, and maintain a divisional strategy in line with organizational strategy.
- Provide strong leadership to the divisional team, ensuring necessary tools and support are in place.
- Monitor and measure performance of divisional goals against Payments Canada’s strategic goals.
- Attract and retain professionals with the skill sets and competencies needed to deliver strategic priorities.
- Manage the talent management cycle for the team, including development plans.
- Create a compelling vision for the team and ensure necessary tools and support are in place.
- Champion Payments Canada’s culture, both internally and externally.
- Establish and operate within budget and ensure compliance with budgetary and financial administration requirements.
- Encourage an open and energetic working environment and demonstrate support for the entire organization.
Requirements
- Minimum of seven (7) years of experience as a Go to Market (GTM) Manager, Product Program Manager, Project Manager, or Operations/Governance Analyst within a complex financial services or technology environment.
- Minimum of five (5) years of leadership or supervisory experience, with a proven ability to mentor direct reports, manage multi-stakeholder workflows, and drive cross-functional operational alignment.
- Strong strategic understanding of corporate structures, ecosystem dynamics, and business model translation within highly regulated core financial infrastructures.
- Comfort working with metrics and performance tracking datasets; ability to interpret, synthesize, and leverage programmatic KPIs to monitor and drive market readiness goals.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to transform complex technical data, vendor tracking metrics, and vertical updates into concise, polished summaries suitable for senior leadership and management review.
- Solid understanding of payment system flows, multi-tiered clearing mechanics, and the relationship between core network participants and technical connection providers.
- Bilingualism is considered an asset.
- Eligibility to successfully complete background checks (criminal, credit, identity, employment, and education).
Skills
- Go to Market (GTM) Management
- Product Program Management
- Project Management
- Operations/Governance Analysis
- Leadership
- Supervisory Experience
- Mentoring
- Multi-stakeholder Workflow Management
- Cross-functional Operational Alignment
- Strategic Understanding of Corporate Structures
- Ecosystem Dynamics
- Business Model Translation
- Metrics and Performance Tracking
- KPI Interpretation and Synthesis
- Oral Communication
- Written Communication
- Technical Data Summarization
- Payment System Flows
- Multi-tiered Clearing Mechanics
- Bilingualism
Location
- Hybrid (remote/office)
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 7+ years of experience
- 5+ years of leadership/supervisory experience
Salary/Compensations
- Starting rate: $119,850
Benefits
- Flexible, hybrid (remote/office) environment
- Competitive compensation package
- Annual variable bonus
- Defined contribution pension plan with employer matching (if eligible)
- 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 (if eligible)
- 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 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 are a public purpose, non-profit organization situated at the center of Canada’s payment ecosystem.
- We own and operate payment systems that process hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of payment transactions every business day.
- We convene ecosystem participants to discuss their multiple and diverse interests and ideas and to navigate industry-level challenges.
- Our values are: 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
- At Payments Canada, we are dedicated to fair, transparent and inclusive hiring.
- 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 and confirm that a candidate’s qualifications meet job requirements.
- Trained recruitment professionals and hiring managers always make the final hiring decisions.
- We are committed to making everyone feel they can be themselves and thrive at work.
- We will continue to build on a foundation of respect and appreciation for diversity in all forms and collectively create an inclusive and equitable culture where our differences are valued.
- 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.
