RQ11491 - Product Manager - Senior

Organization: Government Services Integration Cluster

Ministry: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement

Location: Toronto ON , 1 + year Onsite

Pay rate: 95-101/hr incorp for 7.25 hrs a day

Title: Product Manager

Description

Key Responsibilities

1. Product Strategy & Roadmap

- Define and maintain the product vision, objectives, and roadmap.
- Align product priorities with business goals, strategic objectives, and enterprise direction.
- Identify opportunities for innovation, modernization, and process improvement.
- Develop business cases, value propositions, and product investment recommendations.
- Establish product success measures, KPIs, and outcome-based performance metrics.

2. Stakeholder & Business Relationship Management

- Engage business partners, executives, subject matter experts, and technology teams to understand business needs and priorities.
- Lead product discovery activities, workshops, and stakeholder consultations.
- Build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups and manage competing priorities.
- Communicate product status, roadmap updates, risks, decisions, and outcomes.
- Manage stakeholder expectations throughout the product lifecycle.

3. Product Delivery & Agile Leadership

- Own and prioritize the product backlog based on business value and strategic objectives.
- Translate business requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and product features.
- Collaborate with Agile delivery teams during planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, testing, and releases.
- Support quality assurance, user acceptance testing,



and release readiness activities.
- Ensure delivered solutions meet business, operational, security, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.

4. Technology Leadership & Continuous Improvement

- Collaborate with architects, developers, and technical teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and digital standards.
- Evaluate solution options, balancing business value, cost, risk, scalability, and sustainability.
- Monitor product performance, customer feedback, and operational metrics.
- Drive continuous product enhancements and long‑term product evolution.
- Support technology modernization initiatives leveraging cloud and enterprise platforms.

5. Governance, Risk & Compliance

- Lead the development and maintenance of project governance artifacts, including Project Charters, Project Change Requests (PCRs), business cases, decision records, risk registers, status reports, and executive briefing materials.
- Identify, assess, and manage product risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
- Ensure compliance with security, privacy, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.
- Lead or support Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), Threat Risk Assessments (TRA), Security Risk Assessments, and other governance reviews.




- Participate in governance, investment planning, architecture review, and portfolio management processes.
- Maintain governance artifacts, status reporting, financial tracking, and portfolio information within approved tools (e.g., Planview).

Required Qualifications

Experience

- Minimum 5 years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or related IT leadership roles.
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise‑scale digital products from strategy through delivery and ongoing operations.
- Experience working within Agile, Scrum, and Lean product delivery environments.
- Proven experience managing complex stakeholder environments and influencing executive decision‑making.
- Experience conducting product discovery, requirements elicitation, and roadmap development.

Technical Knowledge

- Robust understanding of enterprise architecture principles, cloud technologies, APIs, integration patterns, and application modernization.
- Experience with Microsoft technologies including:
- Dynamics 365
- Power Platform
- Azure
- Dataverse

- Experience overseeing or participating in PIA, TRA, and related risk and compliance activities.
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle management and digital service delivery.

Communication & Leadership

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven facilitation, negotiation, stakeholder engagement, and conflict resolution skills.
- Ability to present complex concepts to executives, business stakeholders, and technical audiences. <

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