RQ10438 - Sr. Product Manager (JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker)

Source Code; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Source Code is seeking a Sr. Product Manager to lead product strategy and backlog with hands-on prioritization across JIRA, Azure DevOps and Pivotal Tracker. The role emphasizes cross‑functional collaboration to align executives and teams and drive customer value.

The successful candidate will articulate the product vision, define measurable objectives, and oversee delivery milestones in a hybrid work setup with three days in office and two remote days.

Qualifications

• Experience communicating and mediating with business teams to keep product progress on schedule
• Ability to identify risks/events early and define mitigation strategies
• Ability to articulate and prioritize issues at program/exec level and recommend decisions
• Knowledge of backlog management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker

Responsibilities

• Articulate the product vision and strategy to guide the team
• Prioritize features and manage the backlog for focused delivery
• Set measurable objectives and track progress against them
• Decide when to ship software to maximize customer value
• De-risk product direction using validated problems and opportunities
• Communicate with stakeholders to maintain alignment and momentum
• Produce deliverables like roadmaps, KPIs, and status updates

Skills

Product management

Communication

Risk management

Tools

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Pivotal Tracker

Job description

About the job RQ10438 - Sr. Product Manager (JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker)

Hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote - Sir Wiliam Hearst Ave.

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.

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 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
• Knowledge of Backlog Management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker