Product Manager
Role Overview
First National is hiring a Product Manager, IT Applications & QA.
The role owns direction, delivery, adoption, and measurable business value for AI-enabled mortgage workflows.
The Product Manager partners with a Residential Underwriting Business SME and an AI Engineering Lead.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
First National is hiring a Product Manager, IT Applications & QA.
The role owns direction, delivery, adoption, and measurable business value for AI-enabled mortgage workflows.
The Product Manager partners with a Residential Underwriting Business SME and an AI Engineering Lead.
Role facts and compensation
- The role is full-time.
- The stated salary range is CAD 96,026 to CAD 153,641.
- The regular hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- The office location is Toronto.
How you will contribute
- Own product vision, strategy, roadmap, backlog, release plan, and success measures for AI-enabled mortgage workflows.
- Study underwriter, broker, servicing, and operational workflows through observation, interviews, data analysis, and feedback.
- Translate business objectives, policy requirements, process steps, exceptions, and user needs into product requirements and prioritized increments.
- Lead day-to-day decisions with the Business SME and AI Engineering Lead and resolve product tradeoffs.
- Track adoption, cycle time, user effort, decision quality, exception rates, rework, satisfaction, risk, and unit cost.
- Coordinate delivery across design, engineering, data, quality, security, risk, UAT, release, training, communications, and operational readiness.
- Plan and lead validation, pilots, parallel runs, rollout, and change adoption.
- Use telemetry, evaluations, feedback, incidents, and operational data to improve workflows and inform future investment.
Required experience
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, information systems, design, or a related discipline.
- At least 6 years of progressive product management, digital product delivery, business transformation, or related experience.
- Experience owning complex workflow products from discovery through production adoption.
- Ability to translate operational workflows, policy requirements, and user needs into roadmaps, requirements, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams across business, design, engineering, data, quality, security, risk, compliance, and operations.
- Strong analytical skills using product, process, quality, adoption, and financial data to prioritize work and measure outcomes.
- Practical understanding of AI-enabled products, probabilistic outputs, human-in-the-loop controls, evaluation, guardrails, and monitoring.
- Strong stakeholder leadership, facilitation, written communication, and change management skills.
Preferred experience
- Experience in financial services, mortgage lending, lending operations, servicing, broker channels, third-party partnerships, or regulated technology environments.
- Experience using AI-assisted product management tools for analysis, requirements development, prioritization, or customer insight.
Working environment
- The role is based in an office environment.
- The work includes periods of high volume, tight timelines, prolonged sitting, repetitive keyboard and mouse use, and extended screen viewing.
- The role may include speaking with customers by telephone while using computer applications.
About First National
First National is a Canadian non-bank lender providing residential mortgages through the mortgage broker channel and commercial mortgages.
The company offers benefits, training programs, a collaborative office environment, and opportunities for community involvement.
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