Digital Product Manager - Director, Platform Capabilities
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About the Role
TD Securities is seeking a Director, Platform Capabilities to lead the design and delivery of shared platform infrastructure for a foundational digital transformation.
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Responsibilities
- Own the platform capability roadmap for a defined set of shared platform services, including strategy, sequencing, and delivery milestones
- Translate business requirements, client needs, and regulatory constraints into clean, reusable platform service definitions
- Define API contracts, data schemas, and interface standards that Journey teams depend on
- Drive alignment across product, technology, operations, risk, and compliance to keep platform builds on track
- Hold platform services to architectural principles: API first, reusable, well documented, and observable
- Serve as the platform interface for one or more Product Journey teams, managing intake of new capability requirements and communicating trade offs
- Represent the platform capability roadmap to senior business and technology leaders
Requirements
- 8–12 years of product management experience, with strong preference for roles spanning both financial services and digital platform or infrastructure products
- Demonstrated experience building or owning shared platform capabilities in a multi product, API first environment
- Technical acumen sufficient to be a credible product partner for engineering teams: fluent in API design principles, data modeling, and event driven architecture patterns
- Strong cross functional influence skills
- Ability to operate effectively in a transformation context: setting direction under ambiguity, managing dependencies, and communicating trade offs
- Transaction banking background (treasury management, cash management, or commercial banking) is a strong plus
Full Job Posting
Director, Platform Capabilities
- Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Line of Business: TD Securities
- Pay Details: CAD 115,600 CAD 163,200 CAD
- TD's Value Creation Plan within TD Securities is executing a foundational platform transformation rebuilding its digital capabilities as a composable, API first set of shared services.
- The Director, Platform Capabilities is a senior product leadership role responsible for designing and delivering that shared infrastructure.
What You Will Own
- Platform capability roadmap owning the strategy, sequencing, and delivery milestones for a defined set of shared platform services within platform, in partnership with technology leads and business stakeholders.
- Requirements and service design translating business requirements, client needs, and regulatory constraints into clean, reusable platform service definitions; defining API contracts, data schemas, and interface standards that Journey teams depend on.
- Cross functional delivery driving alignment across product, technology, operations, risk, and compliance to keep platform builds on track; managing upstream data and service dependencies without direct authority over most delivery partners.
- Platform quality and standards holding platform services to the architectural principles of the composable platform: API first, reusable, well documented, and observable.
- Journey team partnership serving as the platform interface for one or more Product Journey teams; managing the intake of new capability requirements, communicating trade offs, and ensuring service contracts are fit for purpose.
- Stakeholder communication representing the platform capability roadmap to senior business and technology leaders; communicating dependency risks, trade offs, and sequencing decisions clearly and with appropriate urgency.
How This Role Operates
- The Platform Capabilities team operates within a shared accountability model alongside Journey Product teams.
- Platform Directors define the services and their interfaces; Journey teams consume those services to build client facing experiences.
- Platform Directors are expected to hold the line on reusability and standards while remaining genuinely responsive to Journey team needs.
What We Are Looking For
- Core Requirements: 8–12 years of product management experience, with a strong preference for roles that span both financial services and digital platform or infrastructure products.
- Demonstrated experience building or owning shared platform capabilities in a multi product, API first environment.
- Technical acumen sufficient to be a credible product partner for engineering teams: fluent in API design principles, data modeling, and event driven architecture patterns.
- Strong cross functional influence skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a transformation context.
- Transaction banking background is a strong plus.
Preferred Qualifications
- Client identity, access, and data services experience with CIAM/IAM patterns, KYC/KYB workflows, entitlement and access governance, or client entity and product catalog data management.
- Onboarding and activation workflows experience designing or owning the workflow layer that takes an entitled client through to active product use.
- Client intelligence, reporting, and engagement services experience with financial data reporting platforms, statement generation and delivery, or event driven alerts and notifications infrastructure.
- Payment and orchestration services experience with payment initiation or management platforms, payment rail and protocol knowledge (ACH, SWIFT, ISO 20022, RTP/FedNow), or workflow orchestration and rules engine product ownership.
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