senior product manager.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Product Manager to direct the end-to-end strategy, roadmap execution, and delivery of complex digital products. In this role, you will lead cross-functional delivery teams—comprising product owners, UX/UI designers, developers, and business stakeholders—using Agile (Scrum) methodologies. You will take ownership of defining product visions, prioritizing feature backlogs, continually de-risking product direction, and ensuring high-quality, customer-centric software releases align with organizational goals.

Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite)

Duration: 7-month contract.

Advantages
End-to-End Ownership: Direct digital products from initial discovery and user research through to continuous feature deployment.

Agile Leadership: Guide balanced, multi-disciplinary delivery teams in a collaborative Agile (Scrum) environment.

Executive Visibility: Author strategic roadmaps, risk mitigations, and performance dashboards for senior decision-makers.

Modern Tooling Environment: Leverage industry-standard product management, backlog tracking, and collaboration platforms.

Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownership: Define and articulate product visions, strategies, value propositions, and multi-year product roadmaps aligned with business objectives.

Backlog Management & Prioritization: Manage and groom product backlogs, authoring user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria while prioritizing sprint features.

Agile Team Leadership: Lead balanced delivery teams through Agile (Scrum) ceremonies, guiding product evolution across Discovery, Alpha, Beta, and Live delivery phases.

Risk Management & De-risking: Proactively identify risk events, technical bottlenecks, and adoption barriers, establishing early mitigation strategies and decision frameworks.

Release Decision Management: Determine release timelines and feature shipping milestones to ensure rapid value delivery and continuous end-user feedback loops.

Stakeholder Alignment & Executive Reporting: Facilitate steering committee forums, build consensus across business units, and present executive briefings, product status metrics, and dashboards to senior leadership.

Qualifications
Seniority & Experience: 10+ years of professional experience managing and delivering complex, high-visibility IT and product initiatives (Strictly Required).

Agile (Scrum) Delivery: Proven track record delivering products with balanced teams (UX designers, developers, product owners) using Agile (Scrum) methodologies (Scrum Master experience preferred) (Strictly Required).

Stakeholder Mediation & Relationship Management: Exceptional communication, mediation, and negotiation skills to align business teams and core technical members with product schedules (Strictly Required).

Proactive Risk Mitigation: Demonstrated experience identifying risk events and operational dependencies before they occur and developing mitigation strategies (Strictly Required).

Executive Communication: Superior presentation, verbal, and written communication skills with experience presenting to senior executives and steering committees (Strictly Required).

Nice-to-Have Assets:
Prior experience delivering digital services within public sector environments.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Product Manager" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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