Director, Product Owner – Payments Infrastructure & Transaction Processing - Simplii Financial

We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients. At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute. To learn more about CIBC, please visit CIBC.com What you'll be doing At Simplii Financial, we're redefining how Canadians move money by building robust, scalable payments platforms that simplify complex processes and anticipate future needs.

As the Director, Product Owner – Payments Infrastructure & Transaction Processing, you'll lead the strategy, roadmap, and build of Simplii’s payments infrastructure. You’ll be responsible for ensuring reliable, transparent, and efficient money movement across all channels, overseeing integration with payment networks, card processors, rail providers, and reconciliation systems. Your role will involve translating business goals, regulatory mandates, and operational pain points into actionable product outcomes, partnering closely with technology, architecture, operations, risk, finance, and external vendors.

You’ll drive modernization efforts, streamline platform architecture, and ensure the payments infrastructure is resilient, compliant, and ready to quickly adapt to changes in the payments landscape. At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You can effectively perform all work activities remotely, and will only be required to be on-site on an occasional basis.

How you'll succeed Payments Infrastructure Product Ownership – Own the vision for Simplii's payments platform s , balancing flexibility to meet customer needs, performance , and efficiency. Transaction Processing & Integration – Translate business and regulatory priorities into a clear roadmap, managing integrations with processors, networks, rail providers, and internal systems.

Modernization & Architecture Simplification – Lead the discovery and delivery of Simplii’s payments modernization, reducing duplication and complexity while enhancing platform capability . Reconciliation & Operational Excellence – Develop and maintain capabilities for payments reconciliation, settlement, and operational visibility, ensuring compliance with regulatory and scheme requirements.

Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement – Act as the product decision-maker , partnering with internal teams and external vendors to translate requirements into outcomes. Who you are You have relevant experience. You bring strong experience in payments products and protocols, transaction processing, card issuing/processing, or banking platform roles within regulated environments. You're a technically strong platform leader.

You bring deep knowledge of technology infrastructure and can challenge architecture, operations, and engineering decisions to drive optimal outcomes. You're a decisive product owner. You excel at turning complex modernization goals into sequenced roadmaps, disciplined backlogs, and measurable results. You understand regulated financial services. You recognize the importance of speed, resilience, controls, auditability, and incident readiness in payments processing.

You're a collaborative leader. You foster alignment across product, technology, architecture, operations, finance, risk, compliance, security, and vendor partners. Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work, and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability. #LI-TA What CIBC Offers At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential.

We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck. We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary,