Senior Product Owner / Manager (Product Delivery & Operations Lead)
Contract Opportunity – 6 months initial contract
Markham, ON – 4 days per week in office requirement
Start Date – January 2026
Do you enjoy untangling complex problems, connecting dots across teams, and shipping solutions that make life simpler for customers and colleagues? In this role, you’ll guide a product area from idea to impact—aligning strategy with delivery, measuring outcomes, and fostering tight collaboration across engineering, operations, and business stakeholders.
You’ll be instrumental in our digital transformation : partnering with developers, product peers, and business leaders to make our platforms faster, smarter, and more intuitive.
What You’ll Do
- Facilitate discovery & alignment : Lead engaging workshops and working sessions to uncover needs, pain points & opportunities across business and technical teams.
- Turn insight into action : Translate findings into clear requirements—personas, user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria that are easy for teams to build against.
- Map how work flows : Create concise journey maps, process diagrams, and data flow documentation that connect strategy to execution.
- Use data to validate decisions : Write SQL queries and analyze datasets to inform solution design, test hypotheses, and verify results post‑launch.
- Design scalable solutions : Define customer‑ and employee‑centric experiences that are robust, maintainable, and ready to grow.
- Shape the roadmap : Prioritize the backlog, run sprint planning, and support Agile ceremonies to keep momentum and clarity.
- Build quality in : Partner with QA to define test strategies, cases, and validation plans—ensuring we ship the right thing and it works as intended.
- Fix issues for good : Lead root‑cause analysis for production incidents and drive durable corrective actions.
- Orchestrate delivery : Collaborate with Delivery Managers and Scrum Masters to manage dependencies, remove blockers, and keep work aligned to business goals.
How You’ll Collaborate
Be the connective tissue : Build trusted relationships across engineering, product, operations, customer service, and vendor partners.Translate fluently : Bridge conversations between business and technical stakeholders, ensuring shared understanding and clear decisions.Guide with evidence : Use metrics, research, and data to focus discussions on outcomes, not opinions.What You’ll Bring
Experience : 5+ years in roles such as Product Manager, Technical Product Owner, Product Operations Lead, or Senior Business Systems Analyst.Program coordination : Proven ability to manage initiatives spanning multiple teams or business units.Product craft : Strength in requirements elicitation, documentation, process design, and Agile delivery practices.Tools : Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, and building performance dashboards.Data skills : Working knowledge of SQL for analysis, troubleshooting, and validation.Communication : Clear, concise storytelling—comfortable translating between business needs and technical realities.Mindset : Curious, adaptable, and motivated to simplify complex systems into human‑centered solutions.Domain exposure (nice to have) : Customer engagement platforms, digital workflows, or field service solutions.Credentials (nice to have) : PMP or Agile certifications are helpful; consistent execution matters most.Ways of working : Track record applying Lean and Agile practices, mapping end‑to‑end processes, and leading cross‑functional teams.Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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