CIBC

Sr. Director, Product Management

CIBC$150K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of product leadership experience with P&L accountability in unsecured lending or financial services.
  • Strong strategic thinker with the ability to balance immediate and long-term business needs.
  • Proficient in using analytics to drive product improvements and performance.
  • Experience in coaching and developing high-performing teams with accountability values.
  • Background in product management and portfolio optimization; transformation experience is a plus.
  • Degree in business, finance, or economics; MBA is a desirable asset.
  • Values-oriented, embracing trust, teamwork, and accountability.

Responsibilities

  • Own product performance and accountability for revenue, costs, risk, and P&L across the portfolio.
  • Drive strategic growth through product, pricing, and account management strategies for profitability.
  • Strengthen portfolio decisions by analyzing product opportunities and assessing performance.
  • Lead cross-functional execution with key teams to enhance campaigns and processes.
  • Embed risk and regulatory discipline into product strategies and decisions.
  • Develop high-performing teams by providing clear direction and fostering an inclusive culture.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and incentive pay linked to performance.
  • Comprehensive benefits package, including banking benefits and a defined benefit pension plan.
  • Employee share purchase plan to encourage ownership and investment in the company.
  • Vacation offering alongside wellbeing support for work-life balance.
  • MomentMakers program for social recognition of achievements and milestones.
  • Purpose Day: a paid day off dedicated for personal growth and development.
Full Job Description

What you'll be doing

Our Unsecured & Auto Lending team shapes lending solutions that help clients meet their borrowing needs while supporting strong business performance. As the Senior Director, Unsecured Lending, you'll lead the end-to-end product lifecycle and P&L performance for unsecured personal lines of credit, unsecured personal loans, and a broad portfolio of related programs and product variants. You'll balance near-term plan delivery with longer-term strategy, using data, market insight, and innovation to evolve the portfolio and improve client outcomes. In this role, you'll lead product, pricing, acquisition, account management, and operational strategies to optimize risk-adjusted profitability, client experience, and efficiency. You'll work closely with partners across Risk, Analytics, Marketing, Technology, Operations, Compliance, and Retail teams to strengthen performance and support thoughtful growth. You'll also build and develop a high-performing team, creating the conditions for strong execution, collaboration, and accountability.

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

  • Own product performance - Lead the end-to-end value chain for unsecured lending products, with accountability for revenue, costs, risk, and overall P&L outcomes across the portfolio.

  • Drive strategic growth - Develop and refine product, pricing, acquisition, and account management strategies that improve risk-adjusted profitability and support sustainable business growth.

  • Strengthen portfolio decisions - Review current and emerging product opportunities, assess portfolio performance, and recommend enhancements, rationalization, or expansion based on client needs, market conditions, and business priorities.

  • Lead cross-functional execution - Partner with Marketing, Risk, Analytics, Technology, Operations, Compliance, and other key stakeholders to deliver campaigns, optimize processes, and improve client and business outcomes.

  • Embed risk and regulatory discipline - Ensure risk management, compliance, and regulatory considerations are integrated into strategic planning, product design, and day-to-day decision-making.

  • Develop high-performing teams - Lead, coach, and inspire Product Directors and Managers by setting clear direction, supporting development, and fostering an inclusive, high-accountability culture.

 

Who you are 

  • You have deep product leadership experience. You bring 10+ years of product leadership experience with P&L accountability in unsecured lending or closely related products within financial services.

  • You think strategically and act decisively. You can evaluate complex business opportunities, balance short- and long-term priorities, and make sound decisions in a dynamic environment.

  • You give meaning to data. You use analytics, pricing, credit, and profitability insights to assess performance, solve complex problems, and identify opportunities to improve results.

  • You are a caring and accountable leader. You have experience developing and implementing strategic team goals. You have experience coaching employees and inspiring successful team performance.

  • You can demonstrate experience in product management, portfolio optimization, pricing strategy, credit strategy, and cross-functional business leadership. It’s an asset if you have experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives within consumer lending.

  • You have a degree/diploma in business, finance, economics, or a related field. It’s an asset if you have an MBA or equivalent business experience.

  • 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

Job Location

Toronto-81 Bay, 24th Floor

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

Business Analysis, Change Management, Creativity, Innovation, Leadership, Long Term Planning, Pricing Strategies, Product Management, Product Strategies, Project Management, Relationship Building

About CIBC

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The bank is headquartered at Commerce Court in the city's Financial District. CIBC's Institution Number is 010, and its SWIFT code is CIBCCATT. It is one of two Big Five banks founded in Toronto, the other being the Toronto-Dominion Bank. The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce was formed through the June 1, 1961, merger of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and the Imperial Bank of Canada, the largest merger between chartered banks in Canadian history. The bank has four strategic business units: Canadian Personal and Business Banking, Canadian Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, U.S. Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, and Capital Markets. It has international operations in the United States, the Caribbean, Asia, and United Kingdom; Globally. CIBC serves more than eleven million clients, and has over 40,000 employees. The company ranks at number 172 on the Forbes Global 2000 listing.
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