Senior Product Manager

Zohorecruit; Vaughan; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended healthcare

Dental care

Vision care insurance

Job summary

Zohorecruit is seeking a data-driven Product Manager in Vaughan for a full-time, in-office role. You will own the product roadmap, translate business goals into BRDs and user stories, and work with design to refine UX while ensuring compliance with legal requirements.

You will collaborate across engineering, legal, brand, and operations to deliver features on schedule, with a focus on player onboarding, payments, and gamification, in a fast-growing gaming environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, with senior-level exposure.
• Proven track record owning products independently and driving delivery.
• Deep experience collaborating with engineering teams and writing actionable specs.
• Strong project and timeline management with risk awareness.
• Stakeholder management across legal, brand, ops, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap from discovery through delivery and iteration.
• Translate business goals into BRDs, PRDs, and user stories.
• Identify gaps across player journeys including onboarding, payments, and retention.
• Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release coordination with engineering and QA.
• Unblock engineering with clear acceptance criteria and decision clarity.
• Partner with design on wireframes and UX, ensuring high quality user flows.
• Navigate legal and compliance alignment for features before design.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Technical writing

Project management

UX review

Tools

Jira

monday.com

Linear

Job description

Join our dynamic and innovative gaming company, passionate about creating immersive and cutting-edge gaming experiences. We pride ourselves on a culture of creativity, collaboration, and a commitment to pushing the boundaries of gaming. If you're a highly motivated and skilled specialist passionate about the gaming industry, we want you to join our team.

This is a full-time IN-OFFICE position in Vaughan.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

• Own the product roadmap for your area, from discovery through delivery and iteration
  
• Translate business goals into structured, well-scoped product specs (BRDs, PRDs, user stories)
  
• Identify gaps and opportunities across player journey touchpoints; onboarding, payments, bonusing, gamification, retention

Cross-Functional Execution

• Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release coordination with engineering and QA
  
• Drive projects end-to-end with clear timelines, sequencing, and risk management, without needing a PM above you to keep things on track
  
• Unblock engineering: write clear acceptance criteria, resolve ambiguity quickly, and make decisions with incomplete information

Stakeholder Management

• Manage up, sideways, and across; legal, compliance, brand, ops, and leadership all have stakes in what you build
  
• Set expectations proactively, communicate status clearly, and push back constructively when scope creep or priority conflicts arise
  
• Lead structured reviews and demos; create stakeholder-facing materials that actually get read

Design & UX Quality

• Review UI/UX with a critical eye, challenge flows, question assumptions, and advocate for the player
  
• Partner with design on wireframes and prototypes; catch edge cases and inconsistencies before they reach engineering
  
• Hold the bar on quality: if it would confuse a player, it doesn't ship

Legal & Compliance Alignment

• Navigate sweepstakes rules, responsible gaming (RSG) requirements, and jurisdictional constraints, especially US and Ontario
  
• Work directly with legal to ensure features are compliant before they're designed, not after

Requirements

Must-Haves

• 5+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years at a senior level
• Proven track record of owning products independently and you drive, you don't wait to be driven
• Deep experience collaborating with engineering teams: you know how to write specs that developers actually want to read
• Strong project and timeline management: you track milestones, flag risks early, and keep delivery on schedule
• Stakeholder management chops: you have managed competing priorities across legal, brand, ops, and leadership, and lived to tell the tale
• Attention to detail sharp enough to catch UX inconsistencies, edge cases in flows, and gaps in AC before they cost sprint cycles
• Strong written communication: your PRDs and updates are clear, concise, and structured
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, this is a scale-up, not a fully mapped enterprise environment

Strongly Preferred

• iGaming, sweepstakes casino, fintech, or regulated consumer platform background
• Experience with gamification systems, bonus engines, loyalty programs, or payment flows
• Familiarity with sweepstakes legal frameworks (US state-by-state compliance) and/or Ontario iGaming regulations
• Hands-on experience with Jira, monday.com, or Linear for project tracking
• Comfort reviewing Figma files and providing structured design feedback
• Exposure to KYC/identity verification flows, responsible gaming features, or multi-currency systems

Nice to Have

• Experience working with PAM (Player Account Management) platforms
• Familiarity with CRM or lifecycle marketing tools tied to product (e.g. Smartico, Optimove)
• Background in multi-brand or white-label product environments

WHO YOU ARE

• You ask "why" before "how" and you challenge briefs, not just execute them
• You own your failures as clearly as your wins, and you learn fast
• You can go from a rough stakeholder idea to a structured, ready-to-build spec without someone holding your hand
• You have strong opinions, loosely held, and you know when to defer to legal, engineering, or the data
• You get energized by complexity, not paralyzed by it
• You treat players as the end user of everything you ship, if it doesn't serve them, it doesn't ship
• Exciting projects using cutting-edge technologies
• Collaborative and supportive work environment
• Competitive salary and bonuses
• Opportunities for career development, growth and advancement
• Fantastic company events
• Benefits including extended healthcare, dental care, and vision care insurance