Product Manager

Kainos; Halifax; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Product Manager to lead agile teams in delivering impactful digital solutions. In this role, you will own the product backlog, ensuring quality and alignment with stakeholder expectations. You will foster a collaborative environment, guiding your team through the software development lifecycle while actively seeking commercial opportunities. This role offers a chance to make a significant impact in a diverse and inclusive culture, where your ideas are valued and your leadership will help shape the future of digital services. Join us to create innovative solutions that transform lives and businesses.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead agile teams and manage product backlogs effectively.
• Strong commercial awareness with experience in stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products.
• Manage product backlog and ensure effective requirements gathering.

Skills

Product Management

Agile Methodologies

Stakeholder Management

Requirements Gathering

Team Management

Commercial Awareness

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Business Analysis Tools

Job description

When you join us, you get to think beyond limitations to make an immediate and positive impact – like transforming digital services for millions of citizens or helping Fortune 500 companies get live and thrive on Workday.

You’ll be part of a people-first culture that is growing around the world. We’re a creative, committed, and diverse group of individuals who succeed as a team.

Your ideas are heard and valued and you’ll leave a legacy that you can feel proud of. Join us and discover how our people write our story.

As a Product Manager, you will play a lead role across one or more multi-disciplinary agile delivery teams. You will own the end-to-end backlog for a product, responsible for its overall quality and maturity. You will lead the business analysts and product consultants on your project, ensuring that the processes for requirements-gathering and prioritisation are operating effectively.

You will work with delivery managers and solution architects to shape the approach for the work you and the wider team undertakes. You proactively seek commercial opportunities and take a lead role in product-level commercial negotiations.

You will actively support the engagement with product or programme-level business stakeholders, gaining their buy-in and managing their expectations. You will act as a visible leader within the consulting capability, owning the delivery of consulting initiatives. You’ll also manage, coach and develop a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance.

Minimum Requirements:

• Responsible for ensuring that requirements-gathering, refinement and prioritisation processes are effective.
• Responsible for owning the end-to-end product backlog and takes responsibility for story quality and maturity.
• Experience devising goal-oriented roadmaps, gaining buy-in from stakeholders and instilling a focus on MVP.
• Experience leading on the collaborative breakdown of goals into small pieces of value-delivering work.
• Experience leading product teams ensuring the product vision and goals are understood so that scope is managed by the team effectively.
• Experience in shaping the approach taken in a range of phases of the software development lifecycle – such as analysis, acceptance, launch and live ops.
• Proven ability to lead, providing direction and promoting good product management practices, across one or more agile teams.
• Actively supports and builds relationships with product and programme-level business stakeholders.
• Experience implementing appropriate tools/standards/techniques for business analysis and requirements gathering, securing appropriate buy-in from our internal teams and the client.
• Facilitates workshops with senior stakeholders, negotiating conflicting viewpoints and achieving buy-in for new initiatives.
• Responsible for working with delivery leads and solution architects to manage scope within commercial constraints, such as cost restrictions or project deadlines.
• Strong commercial awareness and an active participation in revenue or sales-generating activity.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of relevant technologies and architecture concepts.
• Experience coaching and mentoring clients and colleagues in agile techniques and best practices.
• We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team management skills, including effectively managing a multi-disciplinary team is crucial.
• We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, mentoring and coaching members of your team and wider community is important.

Desirable:

• Hands-on experience in another discipline within software development, for example developer, tester or support engineer.
• Experience working on client site day-to-day.
• Active participant in communities of interest (e.g. online groups, speaking at conferences etc.).

So what are you waiting for? Let’s write the next incredible chapter of our story together.

Embracing our differences

We believe in the power of diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are. We also believe every candidate deserves a level playing field. Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out. We understand that everyone's journey is different, and by having a private conversation we can ensure that our recruitment process is tailored to your needs.