Product Delivery, Lead

Product Delivery, Lead

At Interac, we design and deliver products and solutions that give Canadians control over their money so they can get more out of life. But that’s not all. Whether we’re leading real-time money movement, driving innovative commerce solutions like open payments for transit systems or making advancements in new areas like verification and open banking, we are playing a key role in shaping the future of the digital economy in Canada.

Have you ever managed the delivery of a strategic product roadmap? Had to provide delivery oversight of a product with business and technical partner to ensure it is stable, secure and constantly evolving? Do you enjoy coaching and mentoring cross functional teams to deliver impactful outcomes? Do you have strong leadership skills to influence stakeholders, navigate complex business decisions? If so, we want to hear from you!

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Product Delivery Leader to oversee the end-to-end delivery of our products. This role requires strong project management skills, a deep understanding of product development processes, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives in an agile way of working.

You'll be responsible for:

• Project Management: Plan, execute, and oversee the end to end delivery of a complex product with many internal and external dependencies, across squads and products and ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget aligning to our delivery framework.

• Feature Prioritization: Facilitating the prioritization of features that deliver the most value to customers and with your business and technology partners. Along with facilitating the planning their execution accordingly and inclusive of product/platform strategy.

• Team Coordination: Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams, including product heads, leaders, owners, engineers, designers, vendors, and marketers, to ensure seamless product delivery.

• Timeline Management: Develop and manage detailed product plans, schedules and timelines (dependencies across squads), identifying and mitigating risks to ensure timely delivery.

• Resource Allocation: Allocate resources effectively, balancing team workloads and ensuring optimal utilization of skills and expertise.

• Stakeholder Communication: Maintain clear and consistent communication with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status (scope, timeline, financials), risks, and issues to Executives, stakeholders (internal / external).

• Quality Assurance: Ensure that products meet quality standards and customer expectations through rigorous testing and validation processes.

• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices to enhance product delivery efficiency and effectiveness.

• Customer Focus: Facilitate team to gather and incorporate customer feedback to ensure products meet market needs and deliver exceptional user experiences.

You bring:

• Project Management Expertise: Proven experience in product, program and project management, with a strong understanding of various project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum, Waterfall).

• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.

• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely. This includes proactively communicating dependency impacts and negotiating solutions across squads/products as appropriate including being able to communicate at the Executive/C-Suite level.

• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering practical and innovative solutions including ability to resolve dependencies and impediments to delivery.

• Technical Knowledge: Familiarity with product development processes, software development lifecycle, and relevant tools and technologies.

• Education: bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

• Eligibility to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity.

• Experience in a similar role within a technology-driven organization.

• Proven track record of successfully delivering complex products to market.

• Familiarity with product management tools (e.g., JIRA, Trello, Asana, Planview).

• Relevant certifications (e.g., PMI-ACP, SAFe Agilist, PMP) are a plus.

How we work
We know that exceptional people have great ideas and are passionate about their work. Our culture encourages excellence and actively rewards contributions with:

Connection: You’re surrounded by talented people every day who are driven by their passion of a common goal.

Core Values: They define us. Living them helps us be the best at what we do.

Compensation & Benefits: Pay is driven by individual and corporate performance and we provide a multitude of benefits and perks.

Education: To ensure you are the best at what you do we invest in you.