Russell Tobin & Associates is hiring on behalf of one of its esteemed clients.
Job Title: Product Manager
Location: Toronto ON (Hybrid)
Duration: 5 months (Possible extension)
Client: Public Sector
Pay Rate: $80 - $85/hour [CAD]
Must Have:
- Product Road Map Development (5 year+ of exp)
- Agile exp
- Azure DevOps (5 year+ of exp)
- Cross-Functional Role
- The hiring manager wants to only see candidates who have product management Exp (5 year+ of exp)
- Scrum Master (5 year+ of exp)
Roles and Responsibilities:
Relationship Management - 35%
- Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client products are progressing according to schedule or product road map
- Demonstrated experience in team building, consensus building, and relationship management skills
- Experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of products – Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies
Product Management – Knowledge, Risks, Issues, Scheduling & Reporting - 35%
- Experience with identification to risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
- Ability to articulate and prioritize issues and risks at program management and senior executive level and recommend mitigation strategies for decision makers
- Ability to create and maintain a product road map which describes how your product is likely to evolve over time.
- Ability to delivery on a product with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers) utilizing Agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies. Scrum master experience is preferred.
- Experience gathering and developing requirements to create and maintain a detailed product schedule and/or integrated plan
- Experience with product program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
- Experience with participating in steering committee and stakeholder forums.
Technical Skills - 10%
- Basic Knowledge in Microsoft Azure cloud platform
- Knowledge of online collaboration tools such as MIRO, Atlassian Confluence and Trello, Microsoft Office 365, Google Drive, Zoom, Slack and Microsoft Teams
- Knowledge of Backlog Management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Pivotal Tracker
Soft skills - 20%
- Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines and delivering high profile, high risk, complex initiatives
If this opportunity matches your experience and career goals, please share your most updated resume for consideration.
