RQ08758 Product Manager

Job title:

RQ08758 Product Manager

Company

Randstad

Job description

The Product Manager will lead the end-to-end product lifecycle for the Integrated Employment Services (IES) project. This includes developing product strategies, prioritizing features, managing roadmaps, coordinating product teams, and ensuring timely delivery. The role requires extensive experience in team communication, mediation, and alignment to ensure product development aligns with business goals. Responsibilities also include customer research, backlog management, user story development, tracking KPIs, and maintaining executive-level communication. The Product Manager will de-risk product direction, support agile delivery, and deliver continuous product improvements.Advantages

• Lead a product through discovery, alpha, beta, and live phases
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team (designers, developers, product owners)
• Apply Agile/SCRUM methodologies to manage product iterations
• Influence senior-level stakeholders and contribute to strategic planning
• Work with modern tools like Azure, Jira, Trello, and Confluence
• Build measurable value for end-users through iterative delivery

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain product vision, roadmap, and strategy
• Conduct end-user research and document customer insights
• Manage the product backlog and author user stories
• Prioritize features and schedule delivery in coordination with the team
• Track key performance indicators and product success metrics
• Facilitate team collaboration, resolve blockers, and mediate communication gaps
• Provide executive summaries and regular updates to leadership
• Identify product risks, recommend mitigation strategies, and ensure timely delivery
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in product management using Agile (SCRUM) delivery
• Proven experience managing stakeholder communication and cross-functional alignment
• Experience in building and executing product roadmaps and user-centered design processes
• Knowledge of backlog tools (JIRA, Azure DevOps), collaboration platforms (Confluence, MS Teams)
• Basic familiarity with Microsoft Azure cloud services
• Strong soft skills: mediation, problem-solving, team collaboration, and leadership
• Ability to develop metrics dashboards and perform product reporting at the executive level
• Preferred: Scrum Master experience

Summary

• Demonstrated experience in product management using Agile (SCRUM) delivery
• Proven experience managing stakeholder communication and cross-functional alignment
• Experience in building and executing product roadmaps and user-centered design processes
• Knowledge of backlog tools (JIRA, Azure DevOps), collaboration platforms (Confluence, MS Teams)
• Basic familiarity with Microsoft Azure cloud services
• Strong soft skills: mediation, problem-solving, team collaboration, and leadership
• Ability to develop metrics dashboards and perform product reporting at the executive level
• Preferred: Scrum Master experience

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.

Expected salary

Location

North York, ON

Job date

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:01:37 GMT

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