Technical Product Owner-TI050925

emergiTEL Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Canada is seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to lead the lifecycle of their SmartHome+ app. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and launch innovative IoT solutions, ensuring exceptional user experiences. Ideal candidates are customer-focused with a strong background in product management and a passion for smart home technology.

Qualifications

• Exceptional leadership to manage cross-functional teams and complex dependencies.
• Experience in product management, software development, and program management.
• Passion and knowledge of smart home and IoT.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the best customer experiences for Client SmartHome+.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers to build intuitive interfaces.
• Monitor performance post-launch for ongoing product improvements.

Skills

Customer-first approach

Leadership

Technical understanding

Knowledge of IoT

Education

Post-secondary education in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or UIUX Design

Tools

Agile methodologies

Scrum

SAFe agile

Job description

Job Description: Need experience with IOT/Home automation

Overview

The client\'s Product Management team is on a mission to develop innovative solutions and remarkable experiences that simplify, unify, and transform smart home and entertainment for customers globally. As the Human Interfaces Team in Connected Products & Experiences, they are responsible for uniting experience design and delivery across mobile apps, web, TV screen, wearables and voice, and inspiring the vision as scale future home products. The Broader team manages the end-to-end product lifecycle for all aspects of SmartHome+ so you’ll have the support and collaboration of an excellent team of product managers.

What you’ll do

This is an exciting opportunity to take a leading role in defining and delivering the best customer experiences for Client SmartHome+. As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you will be responsible for the front-end app product lifecycle from plan and assess, design, build, test and launch. You’ll closely interlock with the technical engineering teams and UI/UX designers to build interfaces that are intuitive, useful, and enjoyable to interact with. You’ll also collaborate with a cross-functional team of product managers, hardware, and business stakeholders as well as external vendors to launch products and services to market in a fast-paced agile environment.

• Be embedded within an Agile development squad, working with engineering leaders to set sprint goals and define the highest value problems and experience enhancements to solve.
• Break down Features into Epics and User Stories and apply a customer insights and data-driven approach to inform the requirements, acceptance criteria and backlog prioritization.
• Collaborate with the UIUX design team and UX researcher to create experiences that customers trust and enjoy interfacing with.
• Monitor and assess performance and feedback post-launch to make ongoing iterations so that we are developing products and services that truly resonate with users.

What you bring

• Known for putting customers first, you always have the best customer and business outcomes at the heart of your decision-making.
• Exceptional leadership to manage cross-functional teams and complex dependencies.
• Recognized for your ability to understand technical concepts and translate them to business teams.
• Passion and knowledge of smart home / Internet of Things (IoT) as well as understanding of changing market dynamics.
• Experience in any combination of people leadership, product management, software development, and technical project/program management.

Great-to-haves

• Post-secondary education in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, UIUX Design or equivalent practical experience
• Scrum certified, SAFe agile, lean certifications or relevant experience
• MBA is an asset.