📍 Montréal, QC · Canada ✉️ hans@hanshansen.ca

HansHansen

Senior Product Owner turning regulated banking complexity into automated platforms, compliant delivery, and measurable financial outcomes.

18+
Years in banking
96%
Automation
$100M+
Annual revenue from teams built
10+
Years leading transformations
Hans Hansen, Senior Product Owner
About

I own mission-critical platforms — and keep them stable under real-world constraints.

I’m a Senior Product Owner / Product Manager with 18+ years owning, scaling and operating mission-critical financial platforms in regulated environments. I specialize in end-to-end ownership of complex products — combining automation, operational reliability (RUN) and regulatory delivery to drive measurable outcomes at scale.

My work focuses on prioritizing the right initiatives, reducing friction, and keeping platforms stable and performant when it matters. I’m currently leading a credit card issuance platform where we reached 96% automation — improving efficiency and cycle time while protecting the customer experience — and I’ve delivered major regulatory initiatives that balance compliance, time-to-market and platform robustness.

I’m known for value-driven prioritization, calm execution in complex environments, and bridging business, technology and operations to ship reliable, scalable products. Alongside my product work, I share what I’ve learned through courses and a newsletter — working in French, English and Spanish, based in Montréal and operating globally.

The ledger

Outcomes, not activity.

A senior career measured the way banking measures everything — in numbers that moved. Blue marks scale and delivery; gold marks money.

96% automation
Drove the credit card issuance platform to 96% automation, improving efficiency and cycle time while protecting the customer experience.
Credit Card Issuance Platform · 2025
$100M+ / year
Built and deployed two operational teams (eMortgage, Tammy) that generate over one hundred million dollars annually.
Transformation & Delivery · 2017–2021
$60K / year saved
Designed and delivered the Paperless initiative, removing recurring cost while modernizing the operation.
Transformation & Delivery
PL-72 delivered
Led a major regulatory initiative end-to-end, achieving compliance without breaking the customer journey.
Regulatory delivery · 2025
Genesys Cloud
Owned an enterprise contact-center transformation and shipped Agent Hub — a unified interface joining telephony, CRM and voice biometrics.
Employee Experience · 2021–2025
Case studies

How the numbers happened.

Three signature engagements, told the way I think about them: the situation, what I did, and the result it produced.

96%automation

Reaching 96% automation on a mission-critical platform

SituationA core credit card issuance platform carried heavy manual processing, slowing cycle time in a tightly regulated environment where customer experience couldn’t be compromised.
ActionAs Product Owner, I led a cross-functional squad of business, IT and compliance, prioritized by business value and risk, and delivered a remote DocuSign integration into the onboarding flow.
ResultReached 96% automation — improving efficiency and cycle time while protecting the customer experience.
$100M+annual revenue

Standing up two revenue-generating operational teams

SituationThe organization needed new operational capacity (eMortgage, Tammy) to capture revenue that existing teams couldn’t reach.
ActionAs Senior SME Advisor, I built and deployed both teams end-to-end — structure, process, SAP/CRM tooling and change management across business units.
ResultThe two teams now generate over $100M annually, alongside a Paperless initiative that removed $60K in recurring yearly cost.
PL-72delivered on time

Delivering a regulatory program without breaking the journey

SituationA major regulatory initiative (PL-72) imposed hard compliance requirements on the issuance platform, with significant risk if the customer journey degraded.
ActionI acted as the coordination point between Compliance, Legal, Technology and Operations, owning the trade-offs on risk-sensitive decisions.
ResultAchieved full compliance on schedule while keeping a seamless customer journey — turning a constraint into a controlled delivery.
Professional experience

Eighteen years inside the machine.

Senior Product Owner with 18+ years of banking experience and 10+ years leading mission-critical digital and regulatory transformations — bridging business strategy, technology execution and operational excellence to drive measurable financial, productivity and risk outcomes.

Senior Product Owner — Credit Card Issuance Platform (CCIA)
Apr 2025 — Present

Scope

  • Product ownership of a mission-critical credit card issuance platform
  • Leadership of a cross-functional squad across business, IT and compliance
  • End-to-end accountability for RUN and product evolution
  • Prioritization aligned to business value, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance

Key achievements

  • Delivered remote DocuSign integration, significantly improving customer onboarding efficiency
  • Achieved 96% automation in issuance, improving efficiency and cycle time while protecting customer experience
  • Led the PL-72 regulatory initiative, ensuring compliance while keeping a seamless customer journey
  • Acted as the coordination point between Compliance, Legal, Technology and Operations for risk-sensitive decisions
Senior Product Owner — Employee Experience & Contact Center Ecosystem
Jan 2021 — Apr 2025

Scope

  • Product Owner for the Genesys Cloud transformation program
  • Ownership of the end-to-end contact center application ecosystem
  • Definition of product vision and roadmaps for agent experience platforms

Key achievements

  • Designed and delivered Agent Hub — a unified agent interface integrating telephony, CRM and voice biometrics
  • Defined and implemented the enterprise remote-work and monitoring strategy for contact centers
  • Led the cloud migration of the VSD Portal, improving resiliency, scalability and employee experience
  • Enabled platform standardization and operational agility across business units
Senior SME Advisor — Transformation & Delivery
Oct 2017 — Jan 2021

Scope

  • Strategic advisory and delivery support for large-scale operational and digital initiatives
  • Change management leadership across multiple business units
  • Advisory spanning strategy, delivery execution and change management

Key achievements

  • Built and deployed two operational teams generating $100M+ annually (eMortgage, Tammy)
  • Led deployment of SAP/CRM solutions for support teams
  • Designed and delivered the Paperless initiative, generating $60K in annual savings
Coach & Operational Leader
May 2012 — Oct 2017

Scope

  • Coaching and development of frontline agents and high-potential employees
  • Sales excellence, service quality and career development

Key achievements

  • Coach of the 2013 Ensemble VSD Contest winning team
  • Contributor to the 2015 Excellence Summit
How I work

A clear path from problem to shipped.

However complex the environment, the shape is the same — value-driven prioritization first, then calm, predictable execution with no surprises about what ships or when.

Discovery

Good delivery starts with listening — mapping the platform, the regulatory pressure, and the team. I ask the hard questions and find where value and risk actually sit.

Roadmap

The result is a prioritized plan in plain language — what to do, in what order, and why — aligned to business value, operational efficiency and compliance.

Delivery

I stay with the work through execution and change management to a shipped, measurable result — the kind you can point to on a dashboard, not just in a deck.

Education & certifications

Credentials

Bachelor of Commerce (Finance)2015
Lean Six Sigma — Green Belt2018
Certificate in Business Administration — HEC MontréalIn progress
Core competencies

What I bring

Product & Digital Transformation

  • Senior Product Ownership
  • Process automation & digitization
  • Design Thinking & innovation

Execution & Change

  • End-to-end delivery & RUN management
  • Change management
  • Continuous improvement (Lean)

Leadership

  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Coaching & talent development
  • Executive-level communication
  • Strategic decision-making
Courses

Learn the industry, improve your skills.

Self-paced courses to understand how the industry really works and sharpen your craft — spanning product ownership, Lean Six Sigma, and regulated industries. Built from 18+ years owning mission-critical platforms, and made to use right away.

Not sure where to start? Grab a quick call.

Not sure which course fits, or where to begin? Book a no-pressure 20-minute call and I’ll point you to the right starting point — no strings.

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Start here · Free intro

Introduction to Product Ownership

A self-paced foundation in what the PO role really is — the mindset, the mechanics, and the judgment calls — taught through a running case you actually work through.

What’s inside

6 modules · ~2.5 hours, fully self-paced
A running practice case with worked solutions
Workbook exercises to apply each idea
Lifetime access — revisit anytime
Start the course — free → Free introduction · deeper courses in development
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