As summer draws to a close, we’ll all start noticing changes. The weather, the kids back to school and so on. These changes may inspire you to make some changes of your own – where your job is concerned of course. September is notoriously a popular month for people looking for new jobs, and for companies searching for new talent. So now is the time to act if you are looking for an exciting new opportunity…
VP, Customer Success, Descartes
Descartes is publicly traded with headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and offices and partners around the world. With record financial performance for more than 16 years, they lead the industry in innovation investment. Every day, logistics service providers, manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and other logistics-intensive businesses of all sizes rely on their scale, stability, and comprehensive solution footprint to move what’s most important to them.
Working in partnership with the EVP, Global Commercial Operations, Decartes is adding a business and people leader to the Client Success Group, a Vice President, Customer Success. You will be part of a supportive, collaborative relationship with the EVP, Global Commercial Operations. With an incredible amount of trust and confidence in your leadership, you will be able to experiment and implement the structure to enhance customer success. This is an opportunity to join the leadership of a Canadian organization transforming logistics. You will get to make a broad and deep impact positioning customer success as a valued core function across all five pillars of business at a $6 billion global company.
You will have the chance to build out a function, build your skills, and pursue your aspirations. You will develop, mentor, and grow a team; be mentored; and gain exposure across the organization. Future opportunities include expanding the customer success team globally and moving into broader cross functional management.
Project Manager, Digital Strategy and Products, CBC/Radio Canada
If you have a passion for Canadian storytelling and you wish to help to engage with individuals and communities across various digital platforms, this is where you’ll want to be!
Every day, you will have an opportunity to shape the way in which Canadians see themselves reflected in digital services. Your work will have a direct impact on how millions of Canadians from various communities connect with CBC products, with one another, and with the diverse voices that make this country so unique. You will have the opportunity to play a part in enlightening and entertaining Canadians through innovative work in building the mediums that deliver content. They are an innovative hub, where the talented professionals they work with are respected and valued for their contributions. The CBC product teams are vibrant and their work culture strives to achieve the highest standards of diversity and inclusion. They believe that hiring people with different career paths and backgrounds is fundamental in shared success and in building healthy and highly performant teams.
Working in partnership with teams across the Digital Products group, CBC is adding a Project Manager to the team on a 13 month contract. As the new Project Manager, you will plan and oversee complex technology integration projects working alongside procurement to secure the tools and technologies they need. You will co-lead technical implementation and integration of hardware, software and pricing tools with Product Managers and act as the bridge between vendor and internal teams, developing a broad and deep understanding of the solutions they offer. Through your expertise and influence, you will empower the teams to do their best work.
Valeyo is a leading Canadian-based solutions provider to the financial services industry. In addition to being a leader in loan origination technology, they are a trusted distributor for industry-leading carriers and service providers across Canada. Their partners’ products strengthen their proprietary technologies and expand their suite of lending and insurance solutions. With more than 40 years of business excellence behind them, Valeyo unites a diverse group of insurance, technology, business, and marketing professionals with a common purpose: to help clients thrive through strong partnerships.
At Valeyo, they are building a new cloud-based InsurTech product. To that end, they are looking for an Application Architect to guide the design and the proofs-of-concept, playing an essential role in the build of new Azure products based on infrastructure-as-code. In addition, you will collaborate with and mentor the Agile team and lead the documentation to ensure every detail and process is in place for a successful build, lending your own creativity, insights, and hands-on expertise.
You are a Senior Software Engineer or Engineering Lead with advanced knowledge of architecture and design across all systems. You may be coming from a large financial institution with a limited tech stack and red tape limiting your creativity. Ideally, you have exposure providing day-to-day guidance as part of an Agile team, or you are looking for an opportunity to expand your people-leadership skills. You thrive in a role where you can provide valuable suggestions and solutions in software development, use, and maintenance. You have a passion for innovation and championing best practices. You are a meticulous thinker who can effectively work out all the details when presented with big ideas. You can take feedback constructively and iterate on ideas and solutions from multiple stakeholders with differing opinions.
