21 Oct
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Zaui
|
Vancouver
We are looking for a Senior Product & Delivery Manager to join our Product team on a permanent basis. This position is open to Vancouver based individuals and is fully remote.
About Zaui
At Zaui, quality is at the heart of everything we build. We are a small but fun team For over two decades, Zaui's enterprise-level tour and reservation management software has helped tour and activity operators manage operations, grow bookings and create all-round memorable guest experiences. We have a big vision of the future of technology in the tourism industry, and we're excited to be part of shaping it. We are looking for creative and highly skilled individuals to join our team and help us on our way to becoming an innovative leader in our industry.
As a Senior Product & Delivery Manager at Zaui, you will be the operating engine of our domain-based product model - ensuring we solve the right problems, in the right domains, with explicit specifications, ownership and execution discipline, so that prioritized work reliably moves from signal to customer outcome. You'll combine product judgement, technical fluency, delivery leadership and product operations, working closely with engineering, domain owners and the Product Strategy Group (PSG) — making the system work without replacing anyone's ownership.
The ideal candidate is a versatile product operator who's equally comfortable facilitating executive-level prioritization discussions, writing a tight specification, and unblocking an engineer mid-sprint. You bring strong technical fluency, sharp judgement about what's worth building, and the discipline to keep work moving from decision to customer outcome. You're a natural translator between business and engineering language,
and you use AI tools to accelerate your own workflow.
Product Strategy Group & Portfolio Operations
- Act as operational owner and facilitator of the PSG, preparing prioritization material and maintaining the Group Roadmap and decision log
- Ensure incoming signals carry enough customer, commercial, strategic and operational context to support good decisions
- Drive explicit decisions on whether work should be done, deferred, rejected, configured, productized, customized or investigated
- Ensure every approved initiative has a domain, an accountable owner, an intended outcome and a success metric
- Surface cross-domain priority conflicts, dependencies and unresolved decisions, and follow through on PSG actions
- Maintain portfolio visibility without becoming the central backlog owner for every domain
Domain Ownership
- Own two product domains - Reservations & Inventory, and Operations & Fulfillment - including their roadmaps and outcomes
- Consolidate signals from customers, Sales, Customer Success, Support, telemetry, strategic initiatives and market needs
- Shape problems, desired outcomes and product behaviour before work enters delivery
- Ensure strong specifications, acceptance criteria, edge cases and stakeholder alignment exist before engineering execution
- Work directly with engineers through implementation while preserving engineering ownership of architecture and technical standards
- Own product-side release readiness, release communication inputs, enablement needs and post-release learning
- Review adoption, telemetry, defects and customer reaction after release and feed learning back into the domain roadmap
Delivery Leadership
- Drive prioritized work from decision through completion and customer outcome
- Prevent time drift by establishing clear ownership, dates, dependencies, next actions and escalation paths
- Identify and resolve blockers rather than simply reporting them
- Ensure scope and intended outcomes are understood before development starts
- Challenge unclear commitments, missing decisions and unresolved dependencies
- Maintain strong alignment among Domain Owners, engineers and relevant business stakeholders through matrix authority
- Escalate material delivery risks and trade-offs to PSG or the CEO when required
Product Operations & AI-Augmented Workflow
- Improve the end-to-end signal → PSG → domain roadmap → specification → delivery → release → learning process
- Help Domain Owners improve product thinking, prioritization, specification quality and outcome ownership
- Use AI tools extensively to normalize information, interrogate technical material, improve specifications and accelerate product operations
- Support increasingly automated intake, documentation, release intelligence and corporate learning workflows
- Ensure the product model scales through stronger domain capability rather than centralizing all product work in this role
Customer & Stakeholder
📌 Senior Product (Vancouver)
🏢 Zaui
📍 Vancouver