mitacs
Product Manager
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sponsorship not specified$102k-$114kDetected 20 days ago
AgileStakeholder ManagementResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- This position can be fully remote or hybrid, if located near a Mitacs office in Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver.
- Do you thrive in collaborative environments where creativity, continuous improvement, and strategic thinking are valued?
- We connect researchers with organizations across every region of the country to help solve pressing challenges and accelerate economic growth.
Responsibilities
- Prioritize and manage the backlog for Mitacs+ while collaborating with the Product Lead, Service Design and Operational Excellence team
- Work with business stakeholders across the company to understand their business, operational, and system requirements. Design and deliver innovative solutions and frictionless experience to address those needs.
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of the Mitacs+, power platforms and powerapps to support the development of new features and improvement of existing functionality
- Develop deep internal and external process and workflow knowledge including program requirements to support key strategic product decisions.
- Throughout the product development lifecycle, represents the needs of both end user and internal stakeholders, evaluate market trends, emerging technologies, assesses what's needed to stay competitive, and uses this information to determine what features to build.
- Manages product portfolio, and release management, and effectively refines the backlog through feature prioritization, and estimates delivery timelines
- Prioritizes and drives consensus across multiple stakeholder group.
- Design and deliver innovative solutions and frictionless experience to address those needs.
- Familiarity with best practices around the software development lifecycle including building, testing, and releasing
- Demonstrated personal accountability to manage workload and achieve results that meet agreed Product objectives
Requirements
- Only in rare and exceptional circumstances, where a candidate has the experience, skills, and expertise that far exceed those required for the position, would we consider paying above the hiring range for this role.
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field.
- 8+ years of experience working as a Product Manager or similar within technology.
- Extensive stakeholder management experience across multiple organization disciplines.
- Strong desire to take ownership of a set of new products and features
- Motivational leader that can inspire productivity and teamwork within a product team
- Strong understanding & working experience of business systems, and the business and operational needs of Mitacs and its product offerings
- Drive to design something new, be innovative
- Prior experience collaborating with designers in defining Client Experience (CX) and User Interface (UI)
- Experience working with development and cross functional technology teams, especially customer facing web applications
- Solid background in software development and agile methodologies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Superlative collaboration mindset, through managing prior cross-functional teams without a necessary direct reporting line
Compensation
- Hiring and Salary Range Transparency
Benefits
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion - Mitacs.
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