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Zafin

SaaS platform for bank product pricing

Product Marketing Manager - AIOS

Full-TimePosted on 10/19/2026
CA$130k - CA$150k+ Annual bonus + RRSP matching
Senior
Toronto, ON, Canada
Hybrid
Growth & MarketingProduct Marketing

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 5 years of experience in B2B enterprise technology product marketing, solutions marketing, or a closely related role, with demonstrated ownership of positioning, messaging, and go-to-market initiatives.
  • Experience developing and executing go-to-market strategies for complex enterprise technology products or solutions.
  • Strong product marketing fundamentals, including positioning, differentiation, customer segmentation, competitive analysis, and value proposition development.
  • Excellent writing, storytelling, and presentation skills, with the ability to move between executive-level narratives and detailed technical or solution-oriented content.
  • Strong research, interviewing, and synthesis capabilities, with the ability to uncover insights rather than simply summarize information.
  • Curiosity about emerging technology and willingness to understand how a product works without needing to be its technical expert.
  • Ability to simplify complex concepts without oversimplifying them or making unsupported claims.
  • Strong commercial judgment and understanding of how enterprise technology buyers evaluate solutions and make purchasing decisions.
  • Confidence working directly with technical subject-matter experts, customers, executives, and senior stakeholders.
  • Ability to independently lead cross-functional initiatives, manage competing priorities, and move work forward without waiting for a perfectly formed brief.
  • Ability to influence across Product, Sales, Marketing, and technical teams without direct authority.
  • Proactive, hands-on approach and willingness to move between strategy and execution as priorities evolve.
  • Customer and business mindset, with ability to connect product capabilities to operational challenges and measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities
  • Own and continuously evolve AIOS positioning, messaging, value propositions, and differentiation in alignment with Zafin's broader portfolio and company strategy.
  • Develop a deep understanding of AIOS capabilities, architecture, use cases, and customer outcomes by working with AIOS leadership, Product, Delivery, and technical subject-matter experts.
  • Translate complex technical capabilities into clear, credible narratives for business, technology, architecture, and risk leaders in regulated institutions.
  • Research agentic AI, enterprise AI governance, AI orchestration, software delivery, regulated-industry use cases, and the competitive landscape to identify opportunities and sharpen market positioning.
  • Bring customer, prospect, competitive, analyst, and industry insights into product marketing priorities and recommendations.
  • Develop and drive go-to-market plans for AIOS capabilities, solutions, use cases, and major product releases.
  • Define target audiences, customer problems, messaging priorities, launch objectives, and success measures with Product, Sales, and Marketing.
  • Lead cross-functional launch planning and execution, aligning Product, AIOS leadership, Sales, Pre-Sales, Growth Marketing, and other stakeholders.
  • Identify opportunities to build awareness, consideration, and demand through differentiated use cases, customer outcomes, and market-relevant narratives.
  • Evaluate launch and go-to-market performance, gather feedback, and recommend improvements based on market response and commercial priorities.
  • Build AIOS solution narratives, use cases, customer stories, presentations, product content, and other market-facing materials.
  • Work with customers, Delivery, and internal teams to identify meaningful outcomes, gather evidence, and turn implementation and adoption into credible customer proof.
  • Develop Customer Zero stories demonstrating Zafin's internal application of AIOS and learnings from real-world execution.
  • Translate technical capabilities, customer problems, and market insights into product narratives and content briefs for campaigns, digital experiences, events, and thought leadership.
  • Partner with Growth Marketing and Brand to bring AIOS stories to market through integrated campaigns, videos, webinars, social content, and other channels.
  • Support executive thought leadership and market points of view by identifying themes, developing arguments, and connecting industry developments with AIOS capabilities.
  • Partner with Sales, Pre-Sales, and Industry Advisory to develop product narratives, solution presentations, competitive insights, objection-handling content, and customer-facing materials.
  • Stay close to customer and prospect conversations to understand where AIOS resonates, where buyers need clarity, and where competitive or technical questions create friction.
  • Support strategic opportunities with tailored use-case narratives, product positioning, and relevant customer proof.
  • Work with Growth Marketing to translate product marketing priorities into campaign briefs, digital experiences, and market activation.
  • Help shape and maintain the AIOS digital experience, including product pages, deep dives, use-case pages, and supporting content as the platform evolves.
  • Contribute to analyst briefings, industry events, webinars, executive engagements, and other strategic market initiatives.
  • Establish meaningful success measures for AIOS product marketing initiatives with Growth Marketing and Sales.
  • Monitor market engagement, messaging effectiveness, launch performance, and contribution to qualified demand and commercial opportunities.
  • Capture insights from customers, prospects, analysts, competitors, and customer-facing teams to improve positioning, messaging, and go-to-market execution.
  • Identify and proactively address gaps in market understanding, customer proof, product narratives, and commercial materials.
  • Continuously refine how AIOS is presented to the market as the platform, customer adoption, and competitive environment evolve.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with agentic AI, AI automation, or enterprise AI initiatives.
  • Experience working with AI platforms, enterprise software, or workflow technologies.
  • Experience supporting or leading client workshops, demonstrations, solution validation, or proofs of value.
  • Experience in banking, financial services, or other regulated industries.
  • Experience working across different industries, business functions, or use cases.
  • Experience developing presentations, use-case materials, solution assets, playbooks, or similar client-facing content.

About the company

Zafin is a financial technology platform that helps banks and financial institutions manage and optimize their product pricing, packaging, and offers through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. It works by providing a cloud-based system where banks can design, configure, and deploy pricing and product configurations quickly—typically in days—without heavy IT involvement. The platform supports catalog management, pricing rules, and offer creation, while ensuring regulatory compliance through consistent governance and transparency across products. Compared with competitors, Zafin focuses on fast deployment, end-to-end product and pricing management, and global industry experience, enabling banks to respond rapidly to market changes and digital transformation efforts. Its goal is to help banks modernize their pricing and product strategies, improve efficiency, stay compliant, attract new customers, and retain existing ones.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$52M

Headquarters

Vancouver, Canada

Founded

2002

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What believers are saying

  • Zafin launched AIOS on June 23, 2026, opening a new enterprise AI category.
  • CNBC ranked Zafin among the World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026 again.
  • VirtualZ collaboration on July 21, 2026 boosted IO throughput for large-bank deployments.

What critics are saying

  • Finastra and nCino attack Zafin’s pricing and modernization wedge in 2026.
  • AIOS needs bank adoption fast; long sales cycles can stall revenue growth through 2027.
  • A single major implementation failure at HSBC or Barclays would damage trust materially.

What makes Zafin unique

  • Zafin’s AIOS governs agents, models, tools, and workflows for regulated banks.
  • Nordic Capital acquired Zafin in 2024, funding a broader platform roadmap.
  • Microsoft AI certification and Azure integration deepen credibility with global banks.

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Benefits

  • Paid Vacation
  • Wellness Program
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Hybrid Work Options

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Zafin
Oct 9th, 2026
Zafin debuts at #22 in Chartis RiskTech100 2027.

Zafin debuts at #22 in Chartis RiskTech100 2027. Zafin has been ranked #22 globally in the Chartis RiskTech100(R) 2027, marking the company's first appearance in the annual ranking of the world's leading risk technology providers. This year's RiskTech100 evaluation considered more than 900 vendors, making Zafin's debut at #22 a significant recognition of the company's technology, market impact and continued innovation. * Artificial Intelligence in Banking * Innovation - Banking Development Environments "Zafin's innovative analytics give banks and fintech companies a foundational framework for building their decision and analytics capabilities," said Sid Dash, Chief Researcher at Chartis. "Their top 25 ranking in the RiskTech100(R) 2027 reflects how central (and effective) their analytics have become in the operating systems of retail banks." Produced by Chartis Research, the RiskTech100 evaluates risk technology providers across areas including innovation, market impact, strategy, customer success and execution. Zafin's #22 global ranking and category recognition reflect the company's continued investment in technology and AI innovation, helping financial institutions modernize product and pricing operations and adopt AI with the governance, control and enterprise readiness required in regulated environments.

Zafin
Jul 22nd, 2026
Zafin recognized on CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies 2026 list.

Zafin recognized on CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies 2026 list. July 22, 2026 Zafin has been recognized on CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies 2026 list in the Enterprise Fintech category for the second consecutive year. This recognition, presented by CNBC and Statista Inc., highlights the most innovative and influential fintech companies around the globe across eight market segments. Why this recognition matters. Zafin builds the infrastructure that regulated financial institutions rely on to modernize product and pricing, govern complex operations, and deliver on customer commitments at scale. Being recognized in the Enterprise Fintech category reflects its focus on the hard problems: auditability, complex integration, and controlled modernization for institutions where getting it right is non-negotiable. Two consecutive years on this list tells me Zafin is solving the right problems. The financial institutions Zafin serve are navigating real complexity, regulatory pressure, rising customer expectations, and the need to move faster without compromising control. Zafin build technology that makes that possible. What drives Zafin now is deepening that impact: serving more institutions, solving harder problems, and setting a new benchmark for innovation in regulated industries. Charbel Safadi, CEO, Zafin How CNBC chose the top fintech companies. The selection process, led by CNBC in partnership with Statista, involved: * Analyzing more than 2,000 companies across eight fintech segments * Evaluating public data including annual reports, company websites, and media coverage * Inviting companies to submit additional data through an open application process * Scoring on a combination of general KPIs (40%) and segment-specific KPIs (60%) To see the full list, visit the CNBC website.

Yahoo Finance
Jul 21st, 2026
VirtualZ Computing and Zafin announce joint success advancing high-performance data operations for financial institutions.

VirtualZ Computing and Zafin announce joint success advancing high-performance data operations for financial institutions. Business Wire Collaboration further optimizes high-volume data performance within Zafin's IO platform MINNEAPOLIS & TORONTO, July 21, 2026-(BUSINESS WIRE)-VirtualZ Computing, a provider of no-code data access and data movement software for hybrid enterprise environments, and Zafin, the AI platform company for regulated institutions, today announced a successful collaboration supporting high-volume data operations at enterprise scale for financial institutions. The Zafin IO integration platform connects data, events, services, workflows and applications across legacy and modern environments so institutions can modernize without disrupting critical operations. Zafin has leveraged PropelZ(TM) for Linux by VirtualZ to accelerate batch processing across z/OS mainframe formats, eliminate unnecessary intermediate data handling steps, and streamline high-volume data sharing across enterprise deployments. By simplifying data movement and eliminating multiple steps, Zafin is able to process significantly larger volumes of data at higher speeds, reduce operational friction, and lower infrastructure complexity. These improvements enhance platform performance while supporting faster delivery of product and pricing capabilities for banks. "Data processing at scale is foundational to modern banking," said Shahir Daya, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Zafin. "As we support some of the world's largest financial institutions, performance, resilience, and architectural simplicity are critical. By leveraging PropelZ for Linux within our banking platform strategy, we've increased throughput, reduced unnecessary processing layers, and improved operational efficiency all without introducing additional complexity into our systems." "Zafin's use of PropelZ demonstrates how accelerating data movement and removing unnecessary steps can materially improve efficiency and cost structures said Jeanne Glass, Founder and CEO of VirtualZ Computing. "We're proud to support Zafin as they continue delivering value to financial institutions." This collaboration reinforces Zafin's commitment to delivering enterprise-grade performance while maintaining a streamlined, modular architecture. By reducing time spent managing infrastructure, Zafin's engineering teams can focus on innovation enhancing product agility, pricing precision and value for customers worldwide. Together, VirtualZ Computing and Zafin are demonstrating how modern data acceleration technologies can complement strategic banking platforms, enabling higher performance, lower operational overhead, and a stronger foundation for core modernization.

PR Newswire
Jun 23rd, 2026
Zafin launches AIOS platform to orchestrate AI agents for regulated institutions

Zafin, an AI platform company for regulated institutions, has launched AIOS, an end-to-end agent orchestration platform designed to govern agentic work across enterprises. The platform orchestrates agents, models, tools and workflows whilst maintaining visibility and control over how work is executed. AIOS addresses a critical gap identified in a recent Deloitte survey, which found only 21% of organisations have mature governance models for autonomous AI agents. The platform embeds enterprise guardrails, cost controls and proof of work into execution paths, creating evidence records that support policy, compliance and audit requirements. Zafin validated AIOS internally before customer deployment. The company is offering the AIOS Accelerator programme for qualified institutions ready to implement governed agentic work across software delivery, modernisation and regulated research workflows.

Zafin
Oct 24th, 2025
Zafin and Emirates NBD Win at the Global Retail Banking Innovation Awards 2025

Zafin and Emirates NBD win at the Global Retail Banking Innovation Awards 2025. October 24, 2025 Zafin, in partnership with Emirates NBD, is proud to be recognized at the Global Retail Banking Innovation Awards 2025, winning the title of Best Technology Implementation by a Retail Bank - Middle East. This win celebrates the Zafin SaaS implementation that modernized Emirates NBD's pricing and product architecture - accelerating innovation, enhancing governance, elevating customer experience, and driving revenue growth. The achievement underscores Zafin's role as a strategic partner driving digital transformation and cloud banking leadership across the Middle East. At the Digital Banker's Awards Ceremony in Singapore, Anugopal Venugopalan, Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Zafin, accepted the award on behalf of Zafin and in collaboration with Chong Lip Fah, of Emirates NBD, marking a proud milestone in its long-standing collaboration with one of the region's most forward-looking financial institutions. Emirates NBD began its Zafin journey in 2013 with the on-prem pricing solution. In 2024, the bank successfully migrated to Zafin's SaaS platform - a complex, enterprise-wide transition covering the full spectrum of fees and charges across Retail, Wealth, Commercial, and Corporate segments, including legacy custom developments built over years. Delivered in record time, this milestone showcases the power of collaboration and innovation at scale. As Emirates NBD continues to build on this success, Zafin remains committed to helping financial institutions accelerate, deliver, and unlock the next era of digital banking!