Role Summary: The Head of Product Operations and Innovation is a senior, cross-functional role at the intersection of product strategy, operating infrastructure, investment innovation, finance, governance, and execution. This person reports directly to the CEO and sits on the Canadian leadership team, and is central to translating VanEck's global investment capabilities into a scalable, operationally excellent Canadian product platform. The seat suits a leader who pairs strong financial discipline with an entrepreneurial mindset, moving fluidly between product development, process design, operational execution, risk management, and commercial strategy. It spans ETFs, model portfolios, digital assets, income strategies, alternatives, tokenization, tax-efficient structuring, and other evolving areas of investor need. This is a build-from-the-ground-up role in a start-up entity, not the stewardship of an existing platform. Essential Duties And Responsibilities Product Operations and Platform Buildout Own the operating model required to launch and support VanEck Canada's ETF platform, coordinating cross-functional execution across fund accounting, custody, administration, index providers, market makers, exchanges, legal counsel, auditors, tax, compliance, and internal VanEck teams. Develop and manage launch checklists, operating procedures, timelines, risk controls, and internal governance for new products, ensuring launches run with strong project discipline, clear ownership, and alignment across internal and external stakeholders. Partner with compliance and legal on prospectus development, regulatory filings, fund governance, IRC requirements, policies and procedures, and ongoing oversight, and build scalable processes for lifecycle events (product changes, terminations, mergers, fee changes, distributions, tax reporting, portfolio disclosure).



Product Strategy and Innovation Serve as the operational and analytical lead in product development, working with the CEO and distribution team to evaluate, prioritize, and advance the Canadian product roadmap, and partner with VanEck's global investment and product teams to assess the feasibility of bringing global capabilities to Canada (thematic equity, digital assets, commodities, income solutions, active strategies, alternatives). Evaluate new product ideas through a disciplined operational, regulatory, financial, and tax-efficiency lens (incorporating advisor demand signals from distribution), applying a differentiated-exposure test that prioritizes made-in-Canada products and differentiated exposures addressing gaps in the current shelf, particularly in multi-asset and income, over duplicating what is already widely available. Advance the roadmap in support of the firm's ambition to lead in multi-asset solutions and income strategies, develop business cases for current ETFs and solutions (economics, operational requirements, regulatory considerations, risks, seed capital, launch priorities), and create a repeatable product development framework that balances innovation, speed to market, governance, and scalability. Digital Assets, Tokenization, and Emerging Structures Monitor developments in digital assets, tokenization, real-world asset infrastructure, and other emerging structures, and assess how tokenization may influence asset management, distribution, portfolio construction, operational infrastructure, settlement, liquidity, and investor access. Evaluate whether tokenized products, digital asset exposures, or blockchain-enabled structures fit VanEck Canada's long-term roadmap, partnering with legal, compliance, tax, investment, and global digital asset teams to review them through the right regulatory, operational, tax, and risk frameworks. Tax Efficiency and Product Structuring Build tax efficiency into product development (structure, distributions, turnover, withholding tax, investor and

📌 Head Of Product Operations & Innovation (Toronto)
🏢 VanEck
📍 Toronto