As the Director, Payments Chapter Lead within Everyday Banking, you'll play a pivotal role in Personal and Business Banking, helping to shape and deliver CIBC’s purpose to make our clients’ ambitions a reality. You’ll manage and develop a team of ~8-15 payment product specialists building capabilities within your Chapter/team, drive consistency of tooling and methodologies, and support resourcing needs. Your leadership will foster a collaborative culture, ensure quality delivery, and build specialist expertise aligned with CIBC’s client aspirations. Payments expertise is at the heart of this role—you’ll leverage your deep understanding of open banking, payments products, networks, industry trends, and regulatory requirements to drive innovation and excellence. You’ll work closely with the Chapter Area Lead, Product Owners, and other leaders to diagnose, draft, and implement standards, supporting initiatives across multiple squads. As an active member of a Squad, you’ll contribute to high-quality work that advances Squad objectives and supports the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) process, while nurturing your team’s growth and ensuring compliance with CIBC policies and standards.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You’ll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you’ll spend 1-3 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote.

How you'll succeed

• Chapter leadership and development – Manage and develop team members through coaching, performance management, and capability building to ensure expertise aligns with business needs.
• Payments industry expertise – Apply advanced knowledge of payments products, networks (such as Visa, Interac, and mobile wallet platforms), open banking and emerging industry trends to guide Chapter strategy and delivery.
• Strategic planning and standards implementation – Diagnose, draft, and implement standards in collaboration with the Chapter Area Lead and Product Owners, advancing craft-building initiatives and workforce planning.
• Cross-chapter collaboration – Drive standards, best practices, and initiatives across multiple Chapters, facilitating knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• People management and positive work environment – Set context for assigned work, provide fair and accurate feedback, clarify performance expectations, and create a winning workplace.
• Compliance and risk management – Ensure adherence to policies, standards, guidelines, and controls, applying them consistently and fairly.
• Squad contribution – Deliver work as a Squad member, supporting Squad outcomes and participating in the QBR process.

Who you are

• You’re an experienced people leader. You bring a minimum of 5 years of direct leadership experience, guiding teams to achieve their best.
• You’re a payments expert. You possess 7-9 years of hands-on experience in payments products, ecosystems, and networks—including Visa, Interac, open banking, and mobile wallet spaces. You stay current with industry developments, regulatory changes, and competitive trends, and you have an established network within the payments industry.
• You’re a strategic thinker. You excel at operational, tactical, and strategic planning, supporting business objectives for the short and long term.
• You’re innovative and adaptable. You foster original thinking and apply creative solutions to both established and emerging challenges in payments and banking.
• You’re a relationship builder. You have exceptional interpersonal skills and a proven ability to build collaborative relationships across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work, and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.

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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, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, defined benefit pension plan*, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.

• Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.

• We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.

*Subject to plan and program terms and conditions

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