Product Manager Onsite / Toronto

Overview

Product Manager

Description

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including:
• Gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements
• Defining the product vision
• Ensuring that the product supports the company’s overall strategy and goals
• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience: Identify and fill product gaps Generate new ideas that grow market share Improve customer experience Drive growth Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners Develop product pricing and positioning strategies Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver quick time-to-market and optimal resources
• Drive product launches including working with client relationship team, executives, and other product management team members
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
• Represent the team by containing users to solicit feedback on products and services

General Skills:

• Experience delivering PRDs with prioritized features and corresponding justification
• Experience working with external third parties to assess COTS products and compatibility.
• Experience running beta and pilot programs with early-stage software products and services
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities, and client relationship management experience

Must Haves/ Mandatory Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of application and technology architecture definition and integration needs related to shared infrastructure and middleware
• Experience and knowledge in providing logical technology analysis at a functional level.
• Experience with Platform services, APIs, and databases.
• Knowledge of the design and architecture of cloud deployments
• Knowledge of Unix scripting & deployment automation
• Knowledge of development frameworks/technologies
• Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of products and services
• A team player with a track record of meeting deadlines

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with virtualization technologies; VMware, Server virtualization; and within the following application development frameworks: Java/J2EE, Spring Framework, AngularJS, Python, Node.JS, HTML, JavaScript, C++, SQL, API, Microservices, and container technologies.
• 10+ years experience in planning, designing, implementing, evaluating, and analyzing large transactional middleware platforms with distributed computing
• Strong working/architecture knowledge of N-Tier environments, Intel and Unix platforms, Cloud Computing, and Networking.
• Technology vision and architectural leadership
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture gating processes
• Knowledge of the technology aspects of Service-Oriented and Container/ Component-based architecture and design
• Knowledge and understanding of OPS Corporate I&IT information architecture strategy, policies, plans, current and emerging IT architecture principles, methodologies, mechanisms, and techniques, to analyze, develop and implement application and technology architecture

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Product Management

• Experience in managing end-to-end product lifecycle from requirement gathering to product retirement
• Experience in documenting and presenting product roadmaps, requirements, backlog, functional descriptions,s, and user guides
• Experience working with implementation teams to build and roll out products
• Experience providing support to CRMs and Operations staff

Platform Technologies

• Knowledge of Web Servers, Application Servers, and Tools such as Ansible, Kubernetes/OpenShift Container Platform
• Experience with Application hosting service models, pricing, licenses, platform evergreening

Integration Technologies

• Knowledge of Gateways, APIs and Managed File Transfer systems
• Knowledge of various integration protocols like SOAP, REST, GraphQL, etc.

Project Management

• Experience in developing and managing plans for medium to large projects, including resource management, RAID management, and stakeholder management.