Are you an experienced Product Manager in search of your next contract opportunity? Our high-profile client is seeking to hire a Technical Product Manager to join their talented team on a 6-month contract with a strong probability of extension. Apply for this amazing opportunity if this sounds like a good fit for you!
Advantages
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What’s in it for you!
As a consultant with our client, you’ll receive:
- Highly competitive market hourly rates
- A 6 month contract with a strong probability of extension
- Remote interview process
Responsibilities
• Develop and manage operational plans for the work group. Manage product planning and prioritization through day-to-day collaboration and decision making with a cross functional team including engineers, architects, and business partners.
• Collect, aggregate, and create cross-functional requirements. Align with business partners to balance business and technical objectives and manifest these as clear, stable priorities for the team. Balance business need, capacity, and risk when proposing solutions.
• Use Kanban, Agile or other Kaizen management models for work prioritization and continuous improvement, to manage tradeoffs on scope, resources, timeline, expectations.
• Prepare, communicate, and educate stakeholders on changes in planning, standards, and practices within the organization. Interact directly with business stakeholders to understand business problems and manage expectations. Present
options/recommendations clearly and persuasively to support service decisions.
• Practice iterative, agile development. Identify and document technical tradeoffs as well as dependencies and constraints. Performs validation against stated goals; facilitate reviews and completion.
• Support operational delivery. As needed, participate in operational delivery of governance services to ensure stakeholder experience and address capacity spikes in service needs.
• Negotiate outcomes with the business, leadership and team. Create plans to support the work negotiated.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field
• Demonstrated ability to use analytics and optimization tools to inform product planning and prioritization
• Demonstrated ability to work with the business and engineering to deliver system capabilities, not features
• Hands on experience in developing roadmaps, priorities, features, story outlines, writing user stories, refining product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast-paced, changing environment with variety of stakeholders (5 years)
• Industry experience in a technology environment with a record of successfully delivering complex products
• Strong verbal and written communications skills. Consistently uses communications skills to influence outcomes within a known skill set
• Hands on experience in developing roadmaps, story outlines, writing user stories, refining product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements across teams in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Detailed and results-oriented, able to analyze data to justify product decisions and apply key learnings
• Ability to thoroughly understand complex business and technical issues and influence decision making
• Ability to apply knowledge of multidisciplinary business principles and practices to achieve successful outcomes in cross-functional projects and activities
• Ability to influence others without authority to get things done on time
• Ability to work within large organizations to collaborate and drive cross-functional efforts and build partnerships to secure the resources necessary to achieve goals
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Strong knowledge of agile development practices, methodologies, and tools
• Knowledgeable of product ownership methodology to highlight issues and help as needed for product/service lifecycle.
Summary
If you are a Technical Product Manager and the prospect of joining a dedicated team intrigues you, then this role with our high-profile client could be the perfect opportunity for you.
Apply below or reach out to your Randstad representative for more information.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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Are you an experienced Product Manager in search of your next contract opportunity? Our high-profile client is seeking to hire a Technical Product Manager to join their talented team on a 6-month contract with a strong probability of extension. Apply for this amazing opportunity if this sounds like a good fit for you!
Advantages
What’s in it for you!
As a consultant with our client, you’ll receive:
- Highly competitive market hourly rates
- A 6 month contract with a strong probability of extension
- Remote interview process
Responsibilities
• Develop and manage operational plans for the work group. Manage product planning and prioritization through day-to-day collaboration and decision making with a cross functional team including engineers, architects, and business partners.
• Collect, aggregate, and create cross-functional requirements. Align with business partners to balance business and technical objectives and manifest these as clear, stable priorities for the team. Balance business need, capacity, and risk when proposing solutions.
• Use Kanban, Agile or other Kaizen management models for work prioritization and continuous improvement, to manage tradeoffs on scope, resources, timeline, expectations.
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• Prepare, communicate, and educate stakeholders on changes in planning, standards, and practices within the organization. Interact directly with business stakeholders to understand business problems and manage expectations. Present
options/recommendations clearly and persuasively to support service decisions.
• Practice iterative, agile development. Identify and document technical tradeoffs as well as dependencies and constraints. Performs validation against stated goals; facilitate reviews and completion.
• Support operational delivery. As needed, participate in operational delivery of governance services to ensure stakeholder experience and address capacity spikes in service needs.
• Negotiate outcomes with the business, leadership and team. Create plans to support the work negotiated.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field
• Demonstrated ability to use analytics and optimization tools to inform product planning and prioritization
• Demonstrated ability to work with the business and engineering to deliver system capabilities, not features
• Hands on experience in developing roadmaps, priorities, features, story outlines, writing user stories, refining product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast-paced, changing environment with variety of stakeholders (5 years)
• Industry experience in a technology environment with a record of successfully delivering complex products
• Strong verbal and written communications skills. Consistently uses communications skills to influence outcomes within a known skill set
• Hands on experience in developing roadmaps, story outlines, writing user stories, refining product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements across teams in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Detailed and results-oriented, able to analyze data to justify product decisions and apply key learnings
• Ability to thoroughly understand complex business and technical issues and influence decision making
• Ability to apply knowledge of multidisciplinary business principles and practices to achieve successful outcomes in cross-functional projects and activities
• Ability to influence others without authority to get things done on time
• Ability to work within large organizations to collaborate and drive cross-functional efforts and build partnerships to secure the resources necessary to achieve goals
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Strong knowledge of agile development practices, methodologies, and tools
• Knowledgeable of product ownership methodology to highlight issues and help as needed for product/service lifecycle.
Summary
If you are a Technical Product Manager and the prospect of joining a dedicated team intrigues you, then this role with our high-profile client could be the perfect opportunity for you.
Apply below or reach out to your Randstad representative for more information.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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