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Zohorecruit; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit is seeking a Senior Product Manager to define and execute the vision, roadmap, and outcomes for enterprise-grade digital products. You will partner with executives, IT, and business teams to drive strategy, governance, and delivery of high-impact initiatives.

You will lead discovery, translate business needs into clear requirements, and guide Agile teams through planning, delivery, and release cycles while ensuring security, privacy, and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of product management or IT leadership roles.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale digital products from strategy to delivery.
• Experience in Agile, Scrum, Lean product delivery environments.
• Proven ability to manage complex stakeholder environments and influence executives.
• Experience in product discovery, requirements elicitation, and roadmap development.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the product vision, objectives, and roadmap.
• Align priorities with business goals and enterprise direction.
• Lead product discovery activities and stakeholder consultations.
• Own and prioritize backlog based on business value and strategic objectives.
• Translate requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with Agile delivery teams through planning, refinement, and releases.
• Ensure product solutions meet security, privacy, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Backlog management

Agile delivery

Discovery & discovery workshops

Executive communication

Requirement elicitation

Facilitation

Documentation & briefs

Education

CSPO certification

PSPO certification

PMP certification

Public sector experience

Tools

Dynamics 365

Power Platform

Dataverse

Azure

Planview

Job description

• Defineand maintain the product vision, objectives, and roadmap.
  
• Alignproduct priorities with business goals, strategic objectives, andenterprise direction.
  
• Identifyopportunities for innovation, modernization, and process improvement.
  
• Developbusiness cases, value propositions, and product investmentrecommendations.
  
• Establishproduct success measures, KPIs, and outcome-based performance metrics.
  

Stakeholder & Business Relationship Management:

• Engagebusiness partners, executives, subject matter experts, and technologyteams to understand business needs and priorities.
  
• Leadproduct discovery activities, workshops, and stakeholder consultations.
  
• Buildconsensus among diverse stakeholder groups and manage competingpriorities.
  
• Communicateproduct status, roadmap updates, risks, decisions, and outcomes.
  
• Managestakeholder expectations throughout the product lifecycle.
  

Product Delivery & Agile Leadership:

• Ownand prioritize the product backlog based on business value and strategicobjectives.
  
• Translatebusiness requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and productfeatures.
  
• Collaboratewith Agile delivery teams during planning, backlog refinement, sprintreviews, testing, and releases.
  
• Supportquality assurance, user acceptance testing, and release readinessactivities.
  
• Ensuredelivered solutions meet business, operational, security, accessibility,and regulatory requirements.
  

Technology Leadership & Continuous Improvement:

• Collaboratewith architects, developers, and technical teams to ensure alignment withenterprise architecture and digital standards.
  
• Evaluatesolution options, balancing business value, cost, risk, scalability, andsustainability.
  
• Monitorproduct performance, customer feedback, and operational metrics.
  
• Drivecontinuous product enhancements and long-term product evolution.
  
• Supporttechnology modernization initiatives leveraging cloud and enterpriseplatforms.
  
• Leadthe development and maintenance of project governance artifacts, includingProject Charters, Project Change Requests (PCRs), business cases, decisionrecords, risk registers, status reports, and executive briefing materials.
  
• Identify,assess, and manage product risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigationstrategies.
  
• Ensurecompliance with security, privacy, accessibility, and regulatoryrequirements.
  
• Leador support Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), Threat Risk Assessments(TRA), Security Risk Assessments, and other governance reviews.
  
• Participatein governance, investment planning, architecture review, and portfoliomanagement processes.
  
• Maintaingovernance artifacts, status reporting, financial tracking, and portfolioinformation within approved tools (e.g., Planview).
  

Required Qualifications:

Experience:

• Minimum5 years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, BusinessAnalysis, or related IT leadership roles.
  
• Demonstratedexperience leading enterprise-scale digital products from strategy throughdelivery and ongoing operations.
  
• Experienceworking within Agile, Scrum, and Lean product delivery environments.
  
• Provenexperience managing complex stakeholder environments and influencingexecutive decision-making.
  
• Experienceconducting product discovery, requirements elicitation, and roadmapdevelopment.
  

Technical Knowledge:

• Strongunderstanding of enterprise architecture principles, cloud technologies,APIs, integration patterns, and application modernization.
  
• Experiencewith Microsoft technologies including:
  
• Dynamics365
  
• PowerPlatform
  
• Dataverse
  
• Experienceoverseeing or participating in PIA, TRA, and related risk and complianceactivities.
  
• Strongunderstanding of product lifecycle management and digital servicedelivery.
  
• Exceptionalwritten and verbal communication skills.
  
• Provenfacilitation, negotiation, stakeholder engagement, and conflict resolutionskills.
  
• Abilityto present complex concepts to executives, business stakeholders, andtechnical audiences.
  
• Demonstratedability to produce high-quality documentation, presentations, andexecutive briefings.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• CertifiedScrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), PMP,or equivalent certification.
  
• Experiencedelivering products using Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
  
• Experiencesupporting large-scale digital transformation and modernizationinitiatives.
  
• Experiencewithin Ontario Public Service (OPS) or broader public sector environments.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 5+years of product management experience in IT or digital services
  
• Knowledgeof enterprise architecture, cloud services, APIs, and integrationpatterns.
  
• Experiencewith Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure, and Dataverse.
  
• Exceptionalstakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
  
• Experiencewith OPS IT project and architectural governance
  
• Provenexperience leading large-scale digital or IT transformation projects ofdelivering user-centric products in complex environments
  
• Hands-onexperience with Agile delivery, Scrum, and Lean product development andworking with cross-functional teams
  
• Abilityto translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements and userstories
  
• Abilityto define and communicate a clear product vision and strategy conductingdiscovery work
  

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of OPS Digital Standards, privacy requirements,and cybersecurity practices.
  
• Previous OPS/public sector exp.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Core Skills & Experience:

• Minimum5 years of Product Management experience.
  
• Experienceleading enterprise-scale products from strategy through delivery.
  
• Strongproduct roadmap, vision, and discovery capabilities.
  
• Demonstratedbacklog management, prioritization, and release planning experience.
  
• Proventrack record aligning technology investments with business outcomes.
  
• Experienceworking with Agile, Scrum, and cross-functional delivery teams.
  
• Abilityto influence stakeholders and manage competing priorities.
  

Technical Skills & Experience:

• Knowledgeof enterprise architecture, cloud services, APIs, and integrationpatterns.
  
• Experiencewith Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure, and Dataverse.
  
• Experiencesupporting solution modernization initiatives.
  
• Experienceleading or coordinating PIA, TRA, and technology risk managementactivities.
  
• Abilityto evaluate solution options from business, technical, and operationalperspectives.
  

Communication & Documentation Skills:

• Exceptionalstakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
  
• Strongfacilitation and workshop leadership abilities.
  
• Excellentwritten communication and documentation skills.
  
• Abilityto prepare executive presentations, business cases, roadmaps, and statusreports.
  
• Strongnegotiation, conflict-management, and consensus-building skills.
  

Public Sector Experience:

• Experiencewith OPS project, architecture, and governance processes.
  
• Knowledgeof OPS Digital Standards, privacy requirements, and cybersecuritypractices.
  
• Experienceworking in government or broader public sector organizations.