Product Manager

Ian Martin Group; Brampton, Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 94,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Sapient seeks a Product Manager to lead the vision, strategy, and prioritization for a digital product within a major Digital Business Transformation engagement. You will collaborate with clients, strategists, experience leads, and architects to shape propositions and a disciplined roadmap delivering value in short increments.

You will drive Lean-Agile practices, measure outcomes with KPIs, and present business cases to executives while mentoring a team of Product Analysts in a

Qualifications

• Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles to maximize value.
• Experience creating digital products vision, strategy, and roadmaps from ideation to launch.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clients and cross-functional teams to frame goals and value.
• Develop product vision, strategy, and customer-centric research.
• Translate vision into a prioritized roadmap with measurable outcomes.
• Lead and mentor a team of Product Analysts to deliver high-value digital products.

Skills

Agile/Lean

PI planning

Cross-functional leadership

Customer focus

Stakeholder management

Design thinking tools

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in a related field

Job description

Product Manager

• Pay Rate: $80.65/hour, depending on experience
• Contract Length: 6 Months, with a strong likelihood of extension
• Location: Brampton or Toronto, Ontario

Note: The primary pay rate is based on T4 classification; however, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in an INC classification, where applicable.

Description

As a Product Manager with our client, you act as your clients’ trusted advisor in leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for a specific digital product, or products, within an engagement. You will collaborate with clients undertaking major Digital Business Transformation (DBT) engagements to understand their business, end-customer needs, and then constantly deliver value with fast increment cycles.A successful Product Manager at Publicis Sapient combines leadership skills, rooted on customer centricity, with tactical product management skills to drive the clients and team in releasing program increments every 10-12 weeks (or applicable frequency at client's organization).

Responsibilities

• Partner with client(s), strategists, experience leads, and architects to frame business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience
• Develop product vision, strategy, market/user research, by keeping the customer at the center of everything we do while using design thinking tools
• Represent client in ideation workshops with cross-functional leaders where you identify new ideas, customer needs, pain points, and solution options
• Develop solution hypotheses iteratively, based on user research, and industry and market trend analysis
• Establish customer journey mapping to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing
• Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined, prioritized features that will realize the product vision and value
• Validate and present the business case to the C-level executives and lead business reviews to ensure the team prioritizes the right features
• Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding the customer needs
• Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes
• Masterfully apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks
• Collaborate with product owners, solution managers, and cross-functional product managers, to ensure alignment towards the same program increment (PI) objectives
• Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritize system enablers
• Represent industry best practice and market trends to assist the client in maintaining competitive advantage
• Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop influence without authority
• Inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services

Qualifications

• Deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles that maximize flow of value with a passion to extend this understanding throughout the organization
• Demonstrated success creating digital products vision, strategy, experience, and enterprise solutions and services - from ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality
• Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services
• Proven ability in collaborating and leading Program Increment (PI) cycles
• Significant industry knowledge and expertise within industry
• Proven ability to prioritize multiple demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
• Practice in workshop facilitation to cultivate the ideation
• Ability to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts, with success leveraging data to make decisions about product feature increments
• Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value
• Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviors
• Influencer in continuous learning and innovation

Education and Certifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in fields like Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Product Management, or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), nice to have
• Set Yourself Apart With:
• Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
• Certified Agile Product Manager designation

Additional Information

Candidates will be working a hybrid schedule of 4 days per week at the clients Toronto Downtown site or the clients Brampton site

We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.

We have a dedicated webpage for accommodations where you can learn more about what we offer and request accommodation: https://raise.jobs/accommodations/

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