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Overview

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.

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 qualitative inputs from various stakeholders across the bank to identify and execute against the highest value opportunities that align with the bank’s strategic priorities, are client-centric and based on data-driven insights. Continuously revisit prioritization as recent 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 principles.
- 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 inclined or comfortable 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.

Additional Information

Haventree Bank is committed to providing accommodation when needed. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

EEO and Privacy

Haventree Bank embraces equal opportunity, diversity, and inclusion. Our recruitment process includes collecting personal information as part of applying for roles. Privacy and accessibility information is available in the Privacy Policy.

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📌 Director, Product Management (Toronto)
🏢 Haventree Bank
📍 Toronto