Junior Technical Product Manager

Imagine Everything; Kelowna; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to supporting at-risk children. As a Junior Technical Product Manager, you'll engage with school boards, translate their needs into actionable tasks, and work closely with the CEO and CTO. This role offers a unique opportunity to learn and grow in product management while making a significant impact in the community. You'll be responsible for managing project timelines, facilitating agile meetings, and ensuring that new features meet both business and usability requirements. If you're passionate about making a difference and have a strong technical background, this could be your ideal next step.

Qualifications

• Strong technical background with a focus on product management.
• Professional training in product ownership or project management is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with school boards to understand feature requests and write user stories.
• Manage timelines and prioritize tasks while communicating challenges effectively.

Skills

Technical Background

Attention to Detail

Arbitration Skills

Negotiation Skills

Presentation Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Professional Training in Product Ownership

Project Management Training

Tools

Agile Methodologies

SDLC

PDLC

Job description

Imagine coming into work each day knowing you have a shared mission to help kids! Imagine Everything identifies kids at-risk of suicide, violence, abuse, and exploitation while also supporting school boards with website management, student planning, visitor entry, and records management. It’s an incredible community of people and it might be your next home!

A Junior Technical Product Manager will work with our school board community to investigate issues, adapt feedback for the development team, prioritize work, and provide high-level testing of new features while working with the CEO and CTO. This is a junior role that provides an excellent opportunity to learn and grow in the area of product management for an aspiring individual with a strong technical background.

The specific responsibilities include:

• Working with school boards to understand feature requests
• Writing user stories, acceptance criteria and testing criteria in collaboration with our agile team leads
• Managing timelines, timetables, prioritization, and burn down charts to ensure development tasks are on track and providing clear communication if there are any delays or challenges
• Advocating for both functional and non-functional tasks and negotiating with internal and external stakeholders for time and priority
• Presenting at webinars and writing about new features
• Working with our support team to investigate and triage issues
• Working with the CEO to develop a road map for two of our most active projects
• Collaborating with the Director of Community and our creative team to build marketing materials for any new innovations
• Organizing a backlog for all products
• Scheduling and leading planning, backlog, daily sprint, and community sprint meetings in collaboration with our agile team leads, CTO, and CEO
• Verifying sprint feature or bug tickets for completeness and filling in any missing user stories, acceptance criteria, or testing criteria for upcoming sprints
• Maintaining product forecasting, projection and release burndown charts
• Testing new features to ensure alignment with business and usability requirements
• Demonstrating extraordinary attention to detail
• Exhibiting strong arbitration and negotiation skills
• Possessing strong presentation skills and a desire to make real connections with people
• Having exceptional communication skills with professional level English
• Familiarity with the SDLC, PDLC, and Agile methodologies
• Professional training in product ownership or project management is an asset
• Previous experience with K-12 education is an asset