Product Manager

Pay Rate: $80.65/hour, depending on experience

Contract Length: 6 Months, with a solid likelihood of extension

Location: Brampton or Toronto, Ontario

Note: The primary pay rate is based on T4 classification; however, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in an INC classification, where applicable.

Description
As a Product Manager with our client, you act as your clients’ trusted advisor in leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for a specific digital product, or products, within an engagement. You will collaborate with clients undertaking major Digital Business Transformation (DBT) engagements to understand their business, end-customer needs, and then constantly deliver value with quick increment cycles.A successful Product Manager at Publicis Sapient combines leadership skills, rooted on customer centricity, with tactical product management skills to drive the clients and team in releasing program increments every 10-12 weeks (or applicable frequency at client's organization).

Responsibilities

Partner with client(s), strategists, experience leads, and architects to frame business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience

Develop product vision, strategy, market/user research, by keeping the customer at the center of everything we do while using design thinking tools

Represent client in ideation workshops with cross-functional leaders where you identify new ideas, customer needs, pain points, and solution options

Develop solution hypotheses iteratively, based on user research, and industry and market trend analysis

Establish customer journey mapping to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing

Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined,



prioritized features that will realize the product vision and value

Validate and present the business case to the C-level executives and lead business reviews to ensure the team prioritizes the right features

Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding the customer needs

Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes

Masterfully apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks

Collaborate with product owners, solution managers, and cross-functional product managers, to ensure alignment towards the same program increment (PI) objectives

Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritize system enablers

Represent industry best practice and market trends to assist the client in maintaining competitive advantage

Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop influence without authority

Inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services

Qualifications

Deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles that maximize flow of value with a passion to extend this understanding throughout the organization

Demonstrated success creating digital products vision, strategy, experience, and enterprise solutions and services - from ideation to launch,



including engineering and operational quality

Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services

Proven ability in collaborating and leading Program Increment (PI) cycles

Significant industry knowledge and expertise within industry

Proven ability to prioritize multiple demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders

Practice in workshop facilitation to cultivate the ideation

Ability to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts, with success leveraging data to make decisions about product feature increments

Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value

Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviors

Influencer in continuous learning and innovation

Education and Certifications

Bachelor's or master's degree in fields like Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Product Management, or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), nice to have

Set Yourself Apart With:

Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation

Certified Agile Product Manager designation

Additional Information
Candidates will be working a hybrid schedule of 4 days per week at the clients Toronto Downtown site or the clients Brampton site

We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.

We have a dedicated webpage for accommodations where you can learn more about what we offer and request accommodation: https://raise.jobs/accommodations/

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📌 Product Manager (Ontario)
🏢 Ian Martin Group
📍 Ontario