Manager, Digital Product Management

Job title: Manager, Digital Product Management

Job description: Location: Winnipeg/Toronto

Division: IGM Marketing

IGM Financial Inc. is one of Canada’s leading diversified wealth and asset management companies with approximately $271 billion in total assets under managements. The company provides a broad range of financial planning and investment management services to help more than two million Canadians meet their financial goals. Its activities are carried out principally through IG Wealth Management, Mackenzie Investments and Investment Planning Counsel.

Under IGM Financial’s unique business model based on leading brands and multi-channel distribution strategy, we’re IG Wealth Management. For over 90 years of business we have grown to become one of the largest most respected companies in Canada. We are a leader in providing the best advice, experience and outcomes for our clients, personalized throughout their lifetime. We are proud to be recognized among Canada’s Top 100 Employers (2022) by Mediacorp Canada Inc. in the national ranking for our focus on supporting employees with a number of initiatives that promote personal wellness with a focus on four key pillars including physical, mental, social and financial health. This is your opportunity to build a career with a leading organization where you can learn, grow and thrive both professionally and personally.

At IG Wealth Management, our vision is to inspire financial confidence.

You will join a team that that believes our success starts with the success of our clients, while working together as a team to realize our greatest potential. You will join a team that strives towards excellence while developing and sharing skills and knowledge. You can make a difference for our clients, the world around us and be part of a team that cares. We are dedicated to offering a hybrid work environment when applicable.

IG Wealth Management is a diverse workplace committed to doing business inclusively – this starts with having a representative workforce! We encourage applications from all qualified candidates that represent the diversity present across Canada – including racialized persons, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender diverse and neurodiverse individuals, as well as all who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

We are currently looking for a Digital Product Manager to join our Digital Marketing department as part of IGM Financial team, to support all the upcoming and ongoing digital transformation efforts at IG Wealth Management public and secure platforms. Do you have a passion for fintech and believe in the ability to drive brand objectives through digital products and experiences?

The Digital Product Manager is responsible for creating and maintaining their portion of the product backlog for our websites (IG Wealth Management Public & Secure sites) and front-end platforms. This includes writing stories, gathering requirements, refining user stories, and setting priorities. This role requires a deep understanding of stakeholder business priorities, clients pain points. The Digital Product Manager effectively communicates and prioritizes feature requirements with input from key stakeholders and can articulate the digital and web requirements to ensure products and features build towards both the business needs and measurable KPIs/OKRs.

What will the successful candidate do?

• Think of our users: Help build delightful, valuable experiences for our users that deliver business value for our stakeholders
• Be a PO: Develop, support, refine, prioritize, and execute the product backlog; write, edit, and validate user stories all within an agile framework
• Keep learning: Always be tuned in to Agile best practices and share back with teams where appropriate

• Bring transparency: Engage with stakeholders and partners to maintain and prioritize product roadmap and support the product vision – effectively distill, communicate, and refine your product vision – build and maintain a 12-month roadmap (Now, Next, Later)

• Be a good team player: Be active during all Scrum ceremonies (able to run any as needed) and stay involved in key day-to-day activities, including maintaining healthy backlog, performing UAT, and refining requirements

• Build things: Define and prioritize new features and experiences to deliver timely, valuable increments (MVPs)
• Build trust: Learn, understand and validate brand objectives to ensure products align with business priorities, while establishing a successful collaboration model with brand teams and functional delivery teams
• Know the process: Support product delivery (working with Design, Development, Marketing Tech and Performance)
• Know your stuff: Have a full understanding of your product and website metrics; be able to understand and interpret industry insights and KPIs – identify trends and opportunities, and share back to your stakeholders
• Be the champion: focused on helping our stakeholders understand the direction of the product strategy, and distill learnings, metrics, and insights to the stakeholders
• Be the voice of your products: Effective change management with partners, users, and stakeholders, be able to clearly articulate objectives and core journeys
• Be aware: Maintain an inclusive competitive view on industry trends, channel tendencies, client needs, competitor capabilities and developments – leverage on-site data
• Bring everyone along: A champion for digital transformation in how you approach and communicate with internal teams and stakeholders

What skills and experience will you need?

• 2+ years in a product ownership role
• Past product management experience is ideal
• Deep and practiced understanding and practical experience of Agile Methodology
• General knowledge of the financial services industry, preferably in wealth management is beneficial
• Experience working with Brand teams is not a must, but is a plus
• Experience collaborating with Design Experience teams and a past demonstrated understanding of UX/UI best practices
• Demonstrated success launching new products or features (full development cycle)
• Detail-oriented, can outline SLA timelines and frameworks and hold teams to them
• Able to leverage knowledge and experience to lead teams in problem solving
• Exceptional communication skills, can easily and effectively present materials and ideas to senior leadership

Please visit our career page by clicking on the following link: https://www.ig.ca/en/careers

For internal applicants, please share with your current leader your intent to apply to the role. In the event that you are selected, please let your Talent Acquisition Partner know if you are in any other internal recruitment process.

We thank all applicants for their interest in IG Wealth Management; however only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

IG Wealth Management is an accessible employer committed to providing a barrier free recruitment experience. If you require an accommodation or this information in an alternate format at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team who will work with you to meet your needs.

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Company: IG Wealth Management

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Location: Toronto, ON – Winnipeg, MB

Job date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 02:51:20 GMT

Job Source: Careerjet.ca

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