Senior Product Manager
Senior Product Manager
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Position Summary
The Senior Product Manager resides at the intersection of business service design and technology. Responsible for product outcomes they own the digital strategy behind a product or a suite of products for Mitacs including the development and delivery specifying functional requirements managing feature releases. This position provides clear and focused leadership to successfully execute and advance digital products in support of Mitacss strategic goals and contributes to maximizing the technology investment in support of Mitacss Digital Transformation Strategy.
This full-time temporary (1-year contract with potential for extension) position reports to the Manager Product Management and works closely with the key business functions to deliver on the suite products in support of Mitacss Digital Transformation Strategy & strategic goals.
Responsibilities:
- Prioritize and manage the backlog for Mitacs while collaborating with the Product Lead Service Design and Operational Excellence team
- Work with business stakeholders across the company to understand their business operational and system requirements. Design and deliver innovative solutions and frictionless experience to address those needs.
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of the Mitacs power platforms and powerapps to support the development of new features and improvement of existing functionality
- Develop deep internal and external process and workflow knowledge including program requirements to support key strategic product decisions.
- Identify and outline areas within Mitacs to capture analytics and track product performance product adoption and other key business metrics.
- Throughout the product development lifecycle represents the needs of both end user and internal stakeholders evaluate market trends emerging technologies assesses whats needed to stay competitive and uses this information to determine what features to build.
- Ensures focused collaboration and promotes cohesiveness between all the members of the team and stakeholders while fostering Agile culture.
- Manages product portfolio and release management and effectively refines the backlog through feature prioritization and estimates delivery timelines
- Prioritizes and drives consensus across multiple stakeholder group.
- Translates stakeholder needs to Agile Teams and vendors through Use Stories and prototypes.
- Responsible for coordinating the various activities across the software development lifecycle associated with ensuring that the delivered product meets users needs and provides value to our clients.
Skills & experience:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Business or related field.
- 10 years of experience working as a Product Manager or similar within technology.
- Extensive stakeholder management experience across multiple organization disciplines. Strong desire to take ownership of a set of new products and features
- Motivational leader that can inspire productivity and teamwork within a product team
- Strong understanding & working experience of business systems and the business and operational needs of Mitacs and its product offerings
- Drive to design something new be innovative
- Prior experience collaborating with designers in defining Client Experience (CX) and User Interface (UI)
- Experience working with development and cross functional technology teams especially customer facing web applications
- Familiarity with best practices around the software development lifecycle including building testing and releasing
- Solid background in software development and agile methodologies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Superlative collaboration mindset through managing prior cross-functional teams without a necessary direct reporting line
- Highly skilled at issue resolution and task prioritization
- Demonstrated personal accountability to manage workload and achieve results that meet agreed Product objectives
- Do-what-it-takes attitude
Hiring Range: $119610 - $132900
Hiring and Salary Range Transparency
Typically employees are hired transferred or promoted within the salary range specifically between the minimum and midpoint in the hiring range.
The salary range refers to the range of base salaries for a given position encompassing the minimum and maximum amounts. The midpoint of the range is positioned approximately halfway between the minimum and maximum indicating a fully qualified employee with comprehensive job knowledge and experience for the role.
Only in rare and exceptional circumstances where a candidate has the experience skills and expertise that far exceed those required for the position would we consider paying above the hiring range for this role.
Equity diversity and inclusion (EDI) and decolonization are core values at Mitacs: Equity Diversity and Inclusion - Mitacs. We believe a diverse workforce comprised of individuals with different ideas strengths interests and backgrounds (e.g. gender identities and expressions Indigeneity race abilities sexual orientation and other identities) are crucial to our success. We welcome everyone to apply and encourage you to connect with us if you require accommodations during the recruitment process.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
