Director (or Principal), Product Management

Haventree Bank is a private Canadian Schedule 1 bank specializing in alternative mortgage programs and insured GIC deposits. We help hardworking Canadians from coast-to-coast achieve homeownership by offering flexible mortgage solutions. Our insured GIC deposits offer competitive rates and are available through a variety of wealth management platforms.  

About Haventree Bank  

Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Haventree Bank (Haventree) is a mission driven alternative mortgage lender. The name Haventree is representative of the bank's mission to help its customers find a place of refuge and to lay down new roots for the future. Haventree exists to be a catalyst of financial security and upward mobility for Canadians who are underserved by the traditional financial system. 

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, a Director, Product Management leads the development, design, build and launch digital financial products. The position is also responsible for building and implementing strategies to grow the portfolio of products through acquisition and retention tactics, including measuring the
effectiveness of these strategies.

Major Duties & Responsibilities:

Product Development:

• Help define the product vision and strategy and translate that vision into an ambitious
  product roadmap for direct-to-client deposits, lending and payment products- from ideation
  to execution with design, data, and engineering.
• Work closely with engineering, marketing, UX/UI research, and product design teams to
  build the best financial Services products in the market.
• Develop a deep understanding of our financial product stack (both direct to client as well
  as broker-led) from a user, technical, operations, business and design perspective; use
  that understanding to bring high-impact opportunities to the product roadmap.
• Lead and manage prioritization of product investment with quantitative and quantitative
  inputs from various stakeholders across the bank to identify and execute against the
  highest value opportunities that align with bank's strategic priorities, are client centric and
  based on data-driven insights. Continuously revisit prioritization as new information
  emerges and market and client needs evolve.
• Identify third party technology partners to coordinate plans and roadmaps that will support
  continued product innovation.
• Be a collaborative powerhouse across Haventree bank, ensuring stakeholders are brought
  in and aligned on vision and feel joint ownership over strategy and results.
• Clearly communicate technical and non-technical product specifications for products and
  features to enable efficiency across a wide breadth of stakeholders.
• Develop a framework for partnership, set KPIs that help to drive high quality decision-making.
• Keeps the product backlog up-to-date and prioritized, integrating projects into sprints,
  release management, gathering feedback and iterating on releases

Product Management:

• Strategy and Planning: Create long-term strategy for the business in collaboration with the
  and other business leaders.
• Develop offers, campaigns and strategic initiatives to increase acquisition and grow
  balances through propensity models and optimized pricing, increase funded accounts and
  drive sticky deposit and payment behaviors.
• Financial Results: Accountable for financial results for the direct to client deposit and
  lending portfolio, through strategic management, forward looking plans to address
  emerging trends, competitive developments and business challenges.

Qualifications & Experience:

Degrees, Diplomas & Certifications:

• The position requires a Graduate or post graduate degree in business, engineering, analytics or
  marketing or an equivalent level of education and work experience.

Years and Range of Experience Required to Perform the Job:

• Have 6+ years of relevant product management experience.
• Have some experience or familiarity with the banking or payments space.
• The position requires strong written and verbal communication skills and exceptional organization
  and time management skills.
• Have strong "Product sense" (intuitive understanding of user needs, strategic and data-driven
  mindset, passion for product excellence) understanding and experience with product-led growth
  principals
• Led end-to-end development (0-1 launch) of B2C digital products, preferably in the financial
  domain as a head/principal product manager.
• Ability to balance a deep technical understanding of product and partner requirements with user
  empathy.
• Expertise on prioritization techniques based on advanced knowledge of strategic priorities of the
  bank and data-driven insights.
• Understanding of unit-economics and financial performance of our products
• Technically inclination or comfort with technical concepts to produce detailed-oriented
  requirements, contribute on technical discussions on concepts, architecture and APIs that enable
  your team to ship high quality features.

While we thank everyone for their interest in Haventree Bank, please note that only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Haventree Bank is committed to providing accommodation when needed. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.  

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