Senior Product Manager (Contract)

Metalab; Canada; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading product design firm in Canada is looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager. This role involves shaping product strategy, managing delivery processes, and collaborating with teams to ensure successful product launches. The ideal candidate has experience in consumer and B2B products, strong communication skills, and proficiency in software development tools. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead impactful product initiatives in a remote environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in shipping products with a portfolio.
• Excellent understanding of the software development process.
• Experience in shaping product strategy and roadmaps.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Define product strategy and create product roadmaps.
• Collaborate with engineering and design teams for product feasibility.
• Manage delivery processes and prioritize features.
• Gather requirements and document specifications.

Skills

Experience in shipping consumer and/or B2B products

Understanding of software development processes

User-driven product design

Strong communication skills

Ability to work in remote environment

Expertise in tools like Jira, Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Notion

ProductBoard

Smartsheet

Job description

We are open to candidates based +/- 4 hours PT

At Metalab, we ship beautiful, successful products that are rooted in true business and user needs. As a Senior Product Manager, you ensure that we aren’t just shipping features, but that we are shaping and shipping products that have a lasting effect on businesses and their customers. You’ll contribute to defining the core product definition and lead the successful delivery of the product through hands‑on collaboration with your project team and clients.

Your responsibilities:

• Contribute to the product strategy definition and creation and maintenance of product roadmaps by incorporating stakeholder inputs, user needs, market research, project timelines, and business objectives.
• Contribute to the creation of the product architecture and definition, collaborating with engineering and design teams to ensure technical feasibility and alignment with business goals and user needs.
• Manage the delivery process, including feature prioritization, release planning, and coordination with engineering and operations teams to ensure timely and successful product launches.
• Lead ongoing requirements gathering, feature definition, and documentation for research, design, and engineering.
• Prioritize design and development activities to keep the team and client laser‑focused on solving the right problem at the right time.
• Generate various product artifacts, such as backlogs, user stories, sprint plans, briefs, requirements documentation, dependency diagrams, and logic flows, to support the design and engineering teams and keep them unblocked.
• Collaborate with engineering leads and project management to define technical implementation methods, assess backend requirements, generate technical estimates, and mitigate delivery impediments.

The must‑have short list:

• Experience in shipping consumer and/or B2B products, with a demonstrable portfolio of products that are currently in the market.
• Excellent understanding of and experience in the software development process, including gathering requirements and defining specifications, prioritization, driving the QA process, and compiling and disseminating product documentation
• Experience supporting the shaping of a product, including the product strategy, definition, and roadmap creation.
• Have an understanding of how products are brought to market and operationalized.
• Experience in and appreciation for user‑driven product design and data‑driven product refinement.
• Ability to quickly understand, simplify, internalize, and communicate complex or technical concepts.
• Ability to work within software development tools such as Jira, Confluence, Notion, ProductBoard and Smartsheet
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a remote environment

Equal opportunity employer

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