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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 one of the world's largest independent IT and business consulting services firms. With professionals across the globe, we help clients accelerate digital transformation, improve business outcomes, and deliver innovative solutions that create lasting value. At CGI, you will collaborate with industry leaders, technology experts, and financial institutions to shape the future of lending technology.
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

What you can expect from us:
Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because...
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
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