Product Manager – Full-Time

at  Alberta Central

COMPANY OVERVIEW

The Prairie Payments Joint Venture (PPJV) is a joint venture owned by three Prairie centrals created to digitally transform and modernize payment services for credit unions in the Prairies. PPJV’s goal is to ensure prairie credit unions are competitive in payments and have access to efficient, modernized payments processing infrastructure.

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Post secondary education in related field. (e.g. business administration, computer science, engineering)
• Related Masters degree (e.g. MBA) an asset
• A minimum of 5 to 7 years’ product development and product management experience
• Experience in payments and payments technologies
• Experience with Payments Canada rules and regulations, standards and systems
• Experience in financial services and technology industries
• Understanding of Credit Union ecosystem
• Experience in customer service delivery and strategic relationship management
• Superb organizational and time management skills
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills (written and verbal)

ROLE SUMMARY:

Prairie Payments Joint Venture (PPJV) is undergoing a payments modernization initiative and requires an experienced payments expert who will own one or more of the payment products – Cheque, Bill Payment and other payments or ancillary products/services as required.
The payments product manager will develop a vision and roadmap for the product based on input from internal stakeholders, customers, market research and act as the voice of the client to provide customer value. They will work closely with our technology partners and other vendors to deliver fixes, enhancements, and new features. The product owner will be a key contributor to support overall PPJV strategy to build a secure, resilient, and functional payments platform.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and communicate payments product(s) strategy to key stakeholders
• Develop product roadmap for bill pay and cheque and provide release scope and prioritization
• Define product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, ensuring clear and effective communication to technical teams
• Manage P&L for the respective product, working in collaboration with strategy and finance teams for business case development, funding requests, and pricing strategies
• Manage various vendor relationships
• Work with compliance, fraud, legal, etc. to ensure alignment to various corporate standards and policies
• Drive action throughout the organization to continuously improve product and marketability