RQ08758 - Product Manager - Senior

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

Job summary

Rubicon Path in Toronto, Canada, is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead product strategy and roadmap for enterprise IT initiatives. You will articulate the product vision, align stakeholders, and drive backlog prioritization using Agile (Scrum) practices.

Responsibilities include defining measurable objectives, coordinating cross-functional teams, and communicating progress to executives. Strong knowledge of Azure, Jira/Azure DevOps, Confluence, and stakeholder management required.

Qualifications

• Experience in product discovery, backlog management and agile delivery.
• Ability to articulate product strategy and present to senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication, negotiation and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Articulate the product vision and strategy for the product team.
• Prioritize features and manage the backlog to align with the road map.
• Establish and track measurable objectives and KPIs.
• Decide when to ship software to maximize customer value.
• De-risk product direction with validated customer problems and opportunities.

Skills

Communication & mediation

Team building

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Tools

Azure

Miro

Confluence

Trello

Office 365

Google Drive

Zoom

Slack

Teams

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Pivotal Tracker

Job description

About the job RQ08758 - Product Manager - Senior

Description

Through ongoing product management, monitoring and reporting, services required to be performed by the product manager shall include:

• Identifying strategic and operational requirements of specific product management environment for IT initiatives.
• Providing ongoing advice on refinements and enhancements to the organizations product management delivery processes.
• Developing product design criteria, planning activities, business objectives, communication and reporting protocols, implementing planning, product prioritization and phasing strategies, issues management, quality assessment and transition requirements.
• Directing, coordinating and monitoring product management activities to ensure timely, cost-effective and high-quality business and customer-focused results

Key Responsibilities

• Articulate the product vision and product strategy - so the product team knows why they are undertaking the effort of building the product, and what the plan for doing so is.
• Prioritize features & manage the backlog - So the product team has a shared focus across tactical design and development work.
• Establish and track against measurable objectives - So the product team knows whether they are on the right path or not.
• Decide when to ship software - So customers can experience the benefits of the product as soon as possible, and the product team can continue to gather valuable feedback about how to iterate on the product.
• Continually de-risk product direction - So the product team only builds the features they should build, based on validated customer problems and business opportunities, and increase the likelihood that the product will be successful in the market
• Communicate effectively - So the product team, stakeholders and sponsors are all aligned, and momentum is maintained.

Deliverables expected to be produced could include:

• Product vision and road map (now, near, and future timeline)
• Product strategy: target audience (end-users), problems youre trying to solve, value propositions
• Customer discovery insights through end-user research activities
• Product features and functions through product management backlog and the authoring of user stories with the business product owner
• Product key performance Indicators (KPIs) or success criteria including a metrics dashboard
• Product decision and direction rationales
• Product wins (success stories)
• Continuous shipping of product features to improve upon the minimal viable product produced by the product team through user-centred design processes and agile (scrum) delivery methodologies
• Communications to senior management level including executive summaries, and product status updates as required.

SkillsExperience and Skill Set Requirements

Evaluation Criteria Breakdown

Relationship Management - 35%

• Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client products are progressing according to schedule or product road map
• Demonstrated experience in team building, consensus building and relationship management skills
• Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of products Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies

Product Management Knowledge, Risks, Issues, Scheduling & Reporting - 35%

• Experience with identification to risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Ability to articulate and prioritize issues and risks at program management and senior executive level and recommend mitigation strategies for decision makers
• Ability to create and maintain a product road map which describes how your product is likely to evolve over time.
• Ability to delivery on a product with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers) utilizing Agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies. Scrum master experience is preferred.
• Experience gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed product schedule and/or integrated plan
• Experience with product program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels;
• Experience with participating in steering committee and stakeholder forums.

Technical Skills - 10%

• Basic Knowledge in Microsoft Azure cloud platform
• Knowledge of online collaboration tools such as MIRO, Atlassian Confluence and Trello, Microsoft Office 365, Google Drive, Zoom, Slack and Microsoft Teams
• Knowledge of Backlog Management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines and delivering high profile, high risk, complex initiatives

Supplier CommentsReq Closing Date/Time 2025-03-28, 1:00 p.m.Max number of candidate submission - 1(one)Candidate is required to come in office - 3 days a week

Must haves: Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client products are progressing according to schedule or product road map