Sr. Product Manager

Job title:

Sr. Product Manager

Company

LanceSoft

Job description

Required Skillset

• Proven experience in product planning and lifecycle execution
• Hands-on experience in managing product lifecycle/tracking using tools like Jira, KanBan, and Azure DevOps.
• Experience working with hybrid teams by utilizing collaboration tools like Miro, Microsoft Teams, FigJam, Slack, etc.
• Skilled in planning product delivery and leading distributed teams for efficient outcomes.
• Proficient in creating and managing product roadmaps, and other product artifacts such as proposals, and business cases
• Knowledgeable in project management methodologies, principles, and processes.
• Expertise in defining project scope and controlling work inclusion.
• Competent in budgeting, tracking expenses, and maintaining financial constraints.

Desirable Skillset:
Product Management Expertise:

• Experience in product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle.
• Ability to gather and prioritize product and customer requirements.
• Proficiency in defining product vision and ensuring alignment with strategy and goals of the organization.
• Capability to identify and fill product gaps, generate new ideas, and drive growth.
• Proficient in maintaining product backlog and prioritizing tasks based on business needs.
• Experienced in planning product delivery and guiding teams for timely, efficient outcomes.
• Capable of creating, updating, and delivering product roadmaps focused on growth objectives like market share, revenue, profit, adoption, and ROI.

Project Management Skills:

• Knowledge and experience with project management methodologies, principles, and processes.
• Experience and understanding of product objectives, goals, and metrics to oversee the development and implementation of large-scale projects.
• Defining and controlling the scope of the project to ensure all necessary work is included and unnecessary work is excluded.
• Planning and managing the project budget, tracking expenses, and ensuring that the project remains within financial constraints.
• Being flexible and able to adapt to changes in project scope, timelines, and resources as necessary.

Risk Management and Reporting:

• Identifying potential risks, assessing their impact, and developing mitigation strategies to minimize their effect on the project.
• Ability to articulate and prioritize issues and risks at program management and senior executive levels.
• Experience in creating and maintaining a product road map and reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.

Technical Skills:

• Basic knowledge in Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
• Proficiency with online collaboration tools such as MIRO, Microsoft Teams, Atlassian Confluence, Trello, Microsoft Office 365, Google Drive, Zoom, and Slack.
• Experience with backlog management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, and Pivotal Tracker.

Agile and Scrum Experience:

• Ability to deliver products using Agile (SCRUM) methodologies with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers).
• Experience in Scrum master role is preferred.

Communication and Relationship Management:

• Demonstrated skills in communication, mediation, and team building.
• Ability to build consensus and manage relationships effectively.

Soft Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Proven track record of meeting deadlines and delivering high-profile, high-risk, complex initiatives.

Resumes Evaluation/Criteria:
Product Management – 25%

• Proven experience in product planning and lifecycle management.
• Skilled in defining and executing product vision and strategy.
• Ability to gather and prioritize customer and business requirements.
• Proficient in creating and managing detailed product roadmaps.

Project Management – 25%

• Experience with OPS project assessments (e.g., TRA, PIA) and financial analysis for multi-year projects.
• Proven ability to manage multi-year, multi-million budget projects, including stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and scope control.
• Expertise in formulating business and technical requirements, solving business problems, and defining product visions and goals.
• Experience in coordinating cross-functional teams for product delivery.

Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills – 20%

• Basic knowledge in Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
• Skilled in managing project life cycles, utilizing tools like Jira, Trello, Microsoft Project, KanBan, and Azure DevOps.
• Proficiency with online collaboration tools such as MIRO, Microsoft Teams, Atlassian Confluence, Trello, Microsoft Office 365, Google Drive, Zoom, and Slack.

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Documentation Skills – 20%

• Experience creating privacy, financial, communication and IT documentation including business cases, Privacy Impact Assessments, Threat Impact Assessments, Requests for Service
• Experience in creating Agile methodology artifacts such as roadmaps, release plans, epics/features/user stories

Public Sector Experience – 10%

• Experience with Public Sector ITIL process including incident management, release management, problem management, support models, etc.
• Familiarity with the PMO Stage Gate process as implemented in Ontario Public Sector
• Experience with Service Ontario/Ministry of Government and Consumer Services business processes, gating procedures, project management requirements and business rules.

Must haves:

• Proven experience in product planning and lifecycle execution.
• Skilled in planning product delivery and leading teams for efficient outcomes.
• Proficient in creating and managing product roadmaps.
• Knowledgeable in project management methodologies, principles, and processes.
• Expertise in defining project scope and controlling work inclusion.
• Competent in budgeting, tracking expenses, and maintaining financial constraints.

Nice to Have:

• Previous Public Sector Experience is an asset.

Expected salary

Location

Toronto, ON

Job date

Sun, 26 May 2024 04:06:11 GMT

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