Product Manager - Technical II

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Product Manager - Technical II to join their innovative Decision Management program. This role focuses on enabling intelligent decision-based products through advanced analytics and collaboration with Agile development teams. You will be responsible for driving technical analysis, managing product backlogs, and ensuring timely delivery of features that enhance the product offering. If you are passionate about technology and enjoy working in a dynamic environment, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in a global company dedicated to creating a more inclusive digital economy.

Qualifications

• Strong technical systems analysis and solutioning skills are essential.
• Proven ability to translate high-level requirements into detailed functional specs.

Responsibilities

• Act as Product Manager Technical for an Agile team, driving product roadmap.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define user stories and manage team backlog.

Skills

Technical Systems Analysis

Business Analysis

Agile Methodologies

API Data Mapping

Collaboration Skills

Effective Communication

Job description

Job Title: Product Manager - Technical II

Overview:

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

The Mastercard Way drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview:

1. The Decision Management program enables intelligent decision-based products through streaming analytics with the ability to govern these decisions and manage their outcomes with business agility.
2. This program leverages business rules & AI engines, a streaming big data cluster, an in-memory data grid, APIs, & UIs to deliver real-time decisions at global scale.

We are looking for a Product Manager - Technical II to join our DMP team for the Decision Operations product in the Vancouver office.

Role Description:

1. Act as the Product Manager Technical for your Agile development team, working closely with internal stakeholders to understand the business needs & requirements, and representing these back to your Agile team.
2. Please note this is not a client-facing role.
3. Using the Working Backwards method, decompose business requirements and customer experiences into features and functions that drive the platform/product roadmap.
4. Drive the technical business and systems analysis based on product requirements to detailed solution development.
5. Collaborate with your Agile development team(s) and system architects to understand the impact on gateway systems and agree on the optimal functional solution for new product features.
6. Run and manage agile processes – grooming, planning, prioritization, and retrospectives.
7. Anticipate bottlenecks, risks, and dependencies. Adequately use agile practices to unblock, ROAM Risks, and eliminate dependencies to create flow of work.
8. Schedule and coordinate releases aligning various teams.
9. Take an active role in the Planning process, preparing features for the planning event and working through these features with your team to plan their delivery.
10. Through team backlog grooming sessions and individual elaboration activity, define user stories that capture the functional requirements identified to meet the agreed solution.
11. Take responsibility for the prioritization of the team backlog and for accepting user stories on build completion.
12. Produce internal & external-facing supporting documentation using standard templates and natural language.

All about you:

1. Demonstrate the ability to complete technical systems analysis and solutioning.
2. Solid business analysis skills and knowledge are essential, i.e., the ability to take high-level requirements and drill these down into detailed functional requirements under your own initiative.
3. Demonstrate the ability to collaboratively design solutions that both enhance the product offering and work within the design principles.
4. Comfortable working at a detailed level with interface specifications & doing related data mappings to and from APIs.
5. Ability to work collaboratively with development and business stakeholders within an Agile team.
6. Able to communicate effectively with both business & technical audiences.
7. Empowerment and accountability, demonstrating independent thinking and a collaboration mindset.
8. Committed to deliver on time and to quality standards.
9. Willingness to learn and get stuck in with a passion for curiosity.