Director, Product Owner – Payments Infrastructure & Transaction Processing - Simplii Financial
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About the Role
CIBC's Simplii Financial is seeking a Director, Product Owner to lead the vision, roadmap, and delivery priorities for payments infrastructure and transaction processing.
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Responsibilities
- Define and refine the product vision for Simplii’s payments platform, balancing reliability, scalability, compliance, and cost efficiency
- Translate business and regulatory priorities into a clear roadmap, managing integrations with payment hubs, processors, card networks, rail providers, and finance systems
- Lead the discovery and delivery of payments modernization initiatives, reducing duplication and complexity while enhancing platform resilience and extensibility
- Develop and maintain capabilities for payments reconciliation, settlement, and operational visibility, ensuring compliance with regulatory and scheme requirements
- Manage the squad backlog, lead agile ceremonies, and provide transparent roadmap updates to senior leaders and delivery teams
- Act as the product decision maker, partnering with internal teams and external vendors to translate requirements into deliverable outcomes
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of payments infrastructure and ability to challenge architecture, operations, and engineering decisions
- Strong experience in payments product leadership, transaction processing, card issuing/processing, or banking platform roles within regulated environments
- Experience turning complex modernization goals into sequenced roadmaps, disciplined backlogs, and measurable results
- Understanding of speed, resilience, controls, auditability, and incident readiness in payments processing
- Ability to foster alignment across product, technology, architecture, operations, finance, risk, compliance, security, and vendor partners
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Job Overview
- Director, Product Owner – Payments Infrastructure & Transaction Processing at Simplii Financial (CIBC), based in Toronto, ON.
- Remote friendly role with occasional on site requirements.
- Focus on building robust, scalable payments platforms for Canadian money movement.
What You'll Be Doing
- Define and refine the product vision for Simplii’s payments platform, balancing reliability, scalability, compliance, and cost efficiency.
- Translate business and regulatory priorities into a clear roadmap, managing integrations with payment hubs, processors, card networks, rail providers, and finance systems.
- Lead the discovery and delivery of payments modernization initiatives, reducing duplication and complexity while enhancing platform resilience and extensibility.
- Develop and maintain capabilities for payments reconciliation, settlement, and operational visibility, ensuring compliance with regulatory and scheme requirements.
- Manage the squad backlog, lead agile ceremonies, and provide transparent roadmap updates to senior leaders and delivery teams.
- Act as the product decision maker, partnering with internal teams and external vendors to translate requirements into deliverable outcomes.
Who You Are
- You’re a technically strong platform product leader with deep knowledge of payments infrastructure.
- You’re a decisive product owner who excels at turning complex modernization goals into sequenced roadmaps and measurable results.
- You understand regulated financial services and the importance of speed, resilience, controls, auditability, and incident readiness.
- You’re a collaborative leader who fosters alignment across product, technology, architecture, operations, finance, risk, compliance, security, and vendor partners.
- You have strong experience in payments product leadership, transaction processing, card issuing/processing, or banking platform roles within regulated environments.
What CIBC Offers
- Competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, defined benefit pension plan, employee share purchase plan, vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers recognition program.
- Spaces and technological toolkit to bring together great minds.
- Purpose Day: a paid day off dedicated for growth and development.
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