RQ09946 - Senior Product Manager

Source Code; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Toronto is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive product vision and strategy. The role requires extensive experience in product management, with a focus on communication and risk management. Responsibilities include articulating the product vision, managing the backlog, and ensuring alignment across teams. The ideal candidate boasts 8+ years of experience in a similar role and a proven track record of successful product delivery. This is a contract position with potential extensions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product management or a similar field.
• Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills.
• Ability to implement strategies to manage change.

Responsibilities

• Articulate the product vision and strategy.
• Prioritize features and manage the product backlog.
• Establish measurable objectives for the product team.

Skills

Communication skills

Mediation skills

Risk identification

Product management

Job description

RQ09946 - Senior Product Manager

Toronto, Ontario (Onsite -87 Sir William Hearst Ave., Toronto, Ontario M3M 0B4)

Contract, (4 months to start, very high possibility of extension)

Labour and Transportation Cluster -Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement

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.

Specific Deliverables

• 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
• Product risk mitigation strategies

Must have

• 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
• 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
• Experience with identification to risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• 8+ years of experience

Nice to have

• OPS experience