Director, New Businesses
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KOHOFinTech
KOHO (CAN)Full-TimeDirector
Salary205000 - 265000 CAD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6–10+ years
- Required Skills
- LeadershipBusiness DevelopmentProduct ManagementCoaching
Requirements
- 6–10+ years in product, including direct experience managing Product Managers.
- Deep 0→1 experience in taking products from nothing to real revenue.
- Strong operator with understanding of unit economics, CAC/LTV, contribution margin, and payback.
- Experience owning or working closely against a P&L.
- Coach-like leadership style, making the team stronger.
- High agency to move fast and unblock oneself and the team.
- AI-native builder, using AI tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.) in daily work.
- Clear communicator, able to address both execs and struggling PMs effectively.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, intolerant of drift.
- Experience in Canadian fintech, regulated financial services, or adjacent consumer categories (lending, investing, insurance, crypto) (nice-to-have).
- Experience leading a new-business unit, incubation team, or a portfolio of early-stage pods inside a larger company (nice-to-have).
- Background founding or operating at an early-stage startup (nice-to-have).
- Familiarity with the Canadian regulatory landscape for financial products (nice-to-have).
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of Product Managers.
- Hire, coach, and develop PMs running individual new business lines.
- Set the bar for how 0→1 work is done at KOHO — discovery, scoping, shipping, measuring, deciding.
- Drive execution quality across the portfolio.
- Coach PMs through ambiguity.
- Own the operating cadence.
- Unblock pods across the org.
- Translate between pods and the executive team.
- Set the standard for what "scaling" looks like.
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