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Senior Director, Product Strategy & Management - Auto & Secured Lending Platforms

Category: Project Management

Main location: United States, Virginia, Fairfax

Position ID:J0626-0166

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description:

CGI is investing in the next generation of secured lending and auto finance technology for banks, credit unions, and financial institutions. We are seeking a seasoned product executive to lead the strategic vision, market expansion, and continued evolution of CGI's Auto Lending Platform and broader secured lending product portfolio.

This leadership role combines strategic product ownership with operational execution and market engagement. The successful candidate will be responsible for defining product strategy, shaping multi-year roadmaps, driving investment decisions, guiding product development, and ensuring commercial success across direct and indirect lending channels.

The ideal candidate brings a proven track record of product leadership within lending technology, loan origination systems (LOS), digital banking, or enterprise fintech software organizations. This individual must possess deep expertise in secured lending and financial services technology and demonstrate a history of delivering scalable, market-leading software products for financial institutions.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Establish and lead the strategic vision, product roadmap, and long-term direction for CGI's Auto Lending Platform and related secured lending solutions

Own the complete product lifecycle, including market analysis, business case development, roadmap planning, product development, launch execution, commercialization, adoption, and ongoing optimization

Drive innovation across direct and indirect auto lending capabilities while identifying opportunities for product differentiation and market expansion

Develop and maintain multi-year product roadmaps aligned with customer requirements, industry trends, regulatory expectations, and corporate growth objectives

Prioritize product investments based on business value, customer demand, revenue potential, competitive positioning, and technical feasibility

Partner with Engineering, Architecture, UX, Delivery, and Operations leaders to ensure successful execution of product initiatives

Define compelling product positioning, value propositions, and go-to-market strategies in collaboration with sales, marketing, and client engagement teams

Establish and monitor key product performance indicators, including adoption, customer satisfaction, revenue growth, retention, and platform utilization

Engage directly with clients, prospects, industry analysts, and strategic partners to validate market opportunities and influence product direction

Represent CGI at industry conferences, advisory boards, executive briefings, and client-facing events as a recognized thought leader

Present product strategies, investment recommendations, business cases, and roadmap priorities to executive leadership and key stakeholders

Champion modern product management disciplines and best practices across the organization

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline

10+ years of progressive product management, product strategy, or product leadership experience within financial technology, lending technology, banking technology, or enterprise software organizations

5+ years of direct ownership of enterprise software product strategy, roadmap development, feature prioritization, investment decisions, and market delivery

Demonstrated experience managing products through the full lifecycle, including discovery, requirements definition, roadmap creation, development, launch, commercialization, and optimization

Direct experience working for a lending technology, loan origination system (LOS), digital banking, fintech, or enterprise financial software provider

Proven success launching and scaling software products serving banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions

Strong knowledge of secured lending, consumer lending, commercial lending, auto finance, underwriting, servicing, funding, and lending operations

Experience leading cross-functional teams consisting of Product Management, Engineering, UX, Delivery, Operations, and Go-to-Market stakeholders

Strong understanding of Agile product development methodologies and modern product management frameworks

Experience evaluating investment opportunities, developing business cases, and managing product portfolios

Exceptional executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills

Ability to translate market opportunities into scalable platform capabilities and measurable business outcomes

Desired qualifications

MBA or other advanced degree in Business, Technology, Finance, or a related field
Product leadership experience supporting auto lending, indirect lending, secured lending, commercial lending, or consumer lending platforms

Experience with solutions such as nCino, Finastra, Temenos, Fiserv, Jack Henry, MeridianLink, Blend, Alkami, ICE Mortgage Technology, or similar enterprise financial technology platforms

Experience managing SaaS, cloud-native, platform-based, or subscription software products
Familiarity with API ecosystems, open banking frameworks, third-party integrations, and financial technology partnerships

Demonstrated success delivering products that generated measurable revenue growth, customer acquisition, market expansion, or increased platform adoption
What distinguishes successful candidates

Successful candidates will demonstrate direct accountability for product strategy, roadmap ownership, feature prioritization, investment planning, product development, launch execution, and commercial performance within enterprise software organizations.

This role requires hands-on product leadership experience within software product companies. While consulting, advisory, transformation, implementation, or business analysis experience may provide valuable industry perspective, candidates must possess direct ownership of software product strategy and lifecycle management to be successful in this position.

Other Information:
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $127,500.00 - $267,800.00.
CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
. Competitive compensation
. Comprehensive insurance options
. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
. Paid parental leave
.Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
. Wellness and Well-being programs

Skills:

• Agile
• Enterprise Content Mgmt (ECM)
• FIS Advanced Lending Solutions
• Product Management
• Product strategy