• Location:This opportunity can be hybrid in the Vancouver BC Lower Mainland. Our head office is in Surrey BC. While we have a preference for candidates based in British Columbia due to team collaboration and in-office presence we welcome strong applications from across Canada (Excluding Quebec).
• Annual Base Salary: $125500 - $145800 CAD Profit Sharing Bonus eligibility
  • The salary range represents our reasonable expectation of pay for this role. We may offer compensation outside this range based on the selected candidates qualifications experience and unique circumstances related to the position.
    
• Please note that employment is contingent upon the successful completion of reference checks and background checks.

Application Instructions:

• Please submit your resume and cover letter in PDF format.

Product Operations Lead

Safe Software is hiring its first Product Operations Lead a builder who will define what Product Ops looks like here.

Inspired by the principles of Melissa Perris Escaping the Build Trap this role exists to help our Product group stay focused on outcomes not outputs enabling Product Managers to spend more time on strategy discovery and customer value.

Youll design the systems processes and data foundations that let Product Engineering and Design collaborate effectively and make confident outcome-driven decisions.

Your vision will shape how we scale our product practices and use data to stay focused on customer value as we grow.

This is a hands-on high-impact roleequal parts architect and operatorworking closely with Product Managers Development Managers and Go-to-Market teams to turn friction points into frameworks and bring clarity to the entire product lifecycle.

About The Team

As part of the Product Management team youll join a dynamic and cross-functional group of product professionals who guide product direction across the entire FME platform. The team ensures alignment with Safe Softwares goals delivers customer satisfaction and maintains a competitive edge in the market.

What Youll Be Doing

As a Product Operations Lead you will be responsible for:

Tooling & Configuration

• Design configure and maintain Jira Product Discovery (JPD) Jira Software and related product tools to create clear scalable roadmap structures.
• Build and refine frameworks that support multiple roadmap views e.g. feature technical and portfolio roll-ups enabling visibility for different stakeholders.
• Continuously improve how tools are used driving innovation in workflow design reporting and data hygiene to make planning more efficient and transparent.
• Collaborate with Engineering to keep JPD and Jira configurations aligned with how teams plan track and deliver work.

Data & Insights

• Assess and improve how product and usage data are collected structured and reported partnering with Development to close key gaps.
• Define core product metrics and success measures (e.g. adoption engagement retention ARR impact) and make them accessible through self-serve dashboards.
• Identify trends and anomalies that connect product outcomes to business impact and guide roadmap decisions.

Customer & Market Insights

• Build the systems and processes that make customer insight scalable connecting feedback research and market signals across Customer Success Sales Support and Product.
• Centralize inputs from programs such as Early Adopters Customer Ideas and the Customer Advisory Board into a shared searchable repository.
• Create new lightweight mechanisms that help PMs engage directly with customers and gather insights efficiently as Safe grows.
• Translate customer and market feedback into accessible summaries and reports that inform product strategy and roadmap decisions.

Process Design & Governance

• Maintain and improve core product processes and documentation including templates readiness definitions and defining the handoffs.
• Support quarterly planning and product ceremonies to keep teams aligned and outcomes clearly communicated.
• Ensure changelogs onboarding materials and process updates are visible accurate and easy for PMs to adopt.

AI Enablement & Future Process Design

• Drive adoption of AI-enabled product practices that make product planning reporting and insight generation more efficient.
• Identify and implement opportunities for AI and automation to improve data collection analysis and workflow efficiency.
• Establish best practices and guardrails for responsible AI use across product operations.

Qualifications Skills and Competencies

Safers come from a variety of backgrounds with a diversity in skills and knowledge. That said we find that those who are most successful in this role have experience with the following areas.

Required skills:

• Bachelors degree (or equivalent) in a quantitative field (e.g. engineering data science statistics economics computer science) business or related discipline
• 8 years experience in Product Management with at least 5 years in a dedicated Product Operations role ideally having built or scaled Product Ops practices within a growing product organization.
• Deep understanding of the product management lifecycle and how Product Ops enables PMs to focus on strategy discovery and outcomes.
• Proven success improving product data tooling and processes in close partnership with Product Managers Development and Design.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and data modeling able to query structure and visualize data for reporting and dashboards.
• Experience building dashboards in modern BI tools (e.g. AWS QuickSight Power BI Tableau or Looker) and defining standardized product metrics.
• Working knowledge of database concepts (SQL and NoSQL) and how data storage design impacts reporting and analytics.
• Familiarity with insight-management platforms such as Dovetail capable of creating a centralized tagged repository that consolidates research interviews and customer feedback for easy querying.
• Familiarity with APIs JSON and lightweight scripting (Python or similar) to automate data flows and integrate telemetry from product systems.
• Advanced user of Jira and Jira Product Discovery including configuration workflow design and portfolio roll-ups.
• Understanding of analytics pipelines and metric governance; able to partner with developers to ensure accurate event instrumentation and usage tracking.
• Strong communication and storytelling: translating data into insight and action.
• Organizational and process mindset: ability to design scalable repeatable processes.
• Attention to detail and rigor - ensuring data correctness and consistency.
• Problem-solving in ambiguity - able to scope and manage undefined work.
• Collaboration stakeholder empathy influencing without formal authority.
• Business judgment: ability to prioritize what insights or metrics matter.

What Sets You Apart

• You focus on enabling others removing friction so product teams can do their best work.
• Youre curious and thoughtful using data to form ideas and guide discovery.
• You strike a balance between thoroughness and practicality knowing when good enough is truly enough.
• You think in systems seeing connections across teams and anticipating the ripple effects of change.
  

What You Can Expect

When you choose a career with Safe Software youre also choosing

• Meaningful Work:Make a profound impact across our business workplace and data integration product.
• A Supportive Environment:Feel empowered to share your ideas and implement them with high autonomy and team support.
• Social Responsibility:Become part of a team that findsmeaningful ways to give back. Take paid time off to volunteer for one of our Safe-organized opportunities that align with our core community initiatives.
• Learning & Career Development:We believe in your continuous learning and growth. Take advantage of an annual learning budget and training programs paid for by Safe.
• Flexible Working Hours:Flexible and remote-friendly work arrangements to fit your lifestyle. Work when you want and how you want to.
• Work-Life Balance:Theres no place for burnout at Safe. Maintain a healthy balance of your personal and work life without splitting yourself in two. Enjoy 3 weeks of vacation to recharge plus an additional paid 6 seasonal days off per year.
• Health & Wellness:Extended health dental health or lifestyle spending and counseling benefits from day 1. Thats right no waiting period.
• Family is important:We are dedicated to supporting our employees through parenthood and offer a Parental Leave Top-Up Program for new parents through childbirth or adoption.
• Shared Success:Share in Safes success with our bi-annual profit sharing and RRSP/TFSA matching program.
• An Accessible Commute:Regardless of your commute method were located close to public transit and provide complimentary parking and bike storage for our team!

About Safe Software

Safe Software transforms organizations with FME the only All-Data Any-AI Enterprise Integration Platform connecting all your data anywhere at any velocity. With over 30 years of expertise and 25000 enterprise customers across 125 countries we simplify your data journey wherever it leads.

Founded in 1993 Safe isheadquartered in Surrey BCwith over 200 team members and counting. Were always looking for talented individuals withdiverse backgroundswho are determined to learn and grow. Are you ready to join the team

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Safe Software is an equal opportunity employer and we truly believe that innovation and strength begin with diversity and inclusion. We welcome all candidates regardless of race gender identity or expression sexual orientation age ability disability national or ethnic origin political belief religion or family status. Should you require accommodations during the recruitment process please contact.