Seeking a Senior Product Manager / Product Operations role (full-time or contract) in Technology, Fintech, Insurance, Automotive, or Food-service. Open to remote, or hybrid/on-site in Ottawa, ON. Canadian PR, no sponsorship needed.

Michel Duarte Correa
@michelcorrea
Senior Product Manager at Navalia, automating Jack in the Box ordering and refunds across restaurant platforms.
What I'm looking for
Senior Product Manager with 13+ years shipping B2B and consumer products in regulated, integration-heavy businesses — banking and fintech, insurance-backed device service, automotive, and food-service. Owned products end to end for SquareTrade, Jack in the Box, Fiat/FCA, Itaú, Sicredi and Cargill: a two-sided technician-dispatch platform, 40+ consumer and banking mobile apps, financing and payments integrations, and enterprise ordering and refund automation. Built product operations at scale for Cargill LATAM (43 product teams, project-to-product; directly managed 9 Product Owners). Hands-on with APIs, data and legacy-to-modern migrations; builds daily with Claude and other LLM tools. Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Product Manager
Navalia
Feb 2025 - Present (1 year 8 months)
Own digital ordering, refund automation and system-interoperability products for Jack in the Box's multi-location restaurant operation. Lead discovery and MVP definition for legacy-to-modern migrations and run the cross-functional roadmap with engineering, operations, and vendors.
Principal Product Manager
Avenue Code
Dec 2016 - Dec 2024 (8 years)
Embedded in client product teams, owned strategy and roadmap for SquareTrade's Apple in-home repair partnership and led the retirement of the SourceRoot monolith. Also led Cargill LATAM's project-to-product shift and product operations across multiple clients.
Product Manager
TruckPad
Apr 2016 - Sep 2016 (5 months)
Product Manager for a logistics marketplace connecting shippers, carriers, and independent truck drivers.
Mobile Delivery Manager/Product Manager
Resource IT Solutions
May 2012 - Apr 2016 (3 years 11 months)
Led delivery of mobile banking apps for Itaú, Santander, Sicredi, Tribanco, and Consórcio Nacional Honda. Also served as risk analyst on Moody's first Brazil implementation for Itaú BBA.
Development & QA Manager
Fingertips
Jul 2011 - May 2012 (10 months)
Delivered 40+ mobile apps for clients including YouTube, UFC × Budweiser, Rock in Rio, TV Globo, and Itaú, including the Cannes Lions Bronze-winning Medida Certa and Itaú's first mobile digital token.
Senior Project Coordinator
Resource IT Solutions
Aug 2010 - Aug 2011 (1 year)
Software factory lead (use-case driven development) for Itaú BBA and Caterpillar; planning, scope and delivery coordination across distributed teams (Brazil, USA, UK).
ERP Team Leader
BV Financeira / Banco Votorantim
May 2008 - May 2010 (2 years)
Led TOTVS ERP across finance, tax, procurement, and HR, saving $100K per month in customization costs.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Tera
Bootcamp, Digital Product Leadership
2019 - 2019
Completed a Digital Product Leadership bootcamp.
Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (Unisul)
Technologist (Tecnólogo), IT Management
Earned a Technologist diploma in IT Management, with a WES equivalency of a two-year diploma in Canada.
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Incomplete (2 of 3 years completed), Data Processing
1997 - 2000
Completed 2 of 3 years of a Data Processing program.
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