Description
- Discussing potential projects and their parameters with clients, executives, and software developers.
- Analyze clients’ needs and translate them into requirements.
- Ability to work well with internal teams, including developers, engineers, architects and quality assurance. Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations.
- Understand, research, and follow technical trends in the industry and in general. Able to make recommendations on which new technologies to invest in or leverage.
- Planning out the blueprints/roadmap for software projects, including defining the scope, allocating resources, setting deadlines, laying out communication strategies, tests, success criteria for testing and product acceptance and maintenance.
- Obtaining client’s acceptance of project deliverables.
- Creating a project budget and ensuring the project adheres to the budget as closely as possible.
- Assess and address technical risks.
- Leading the project team, participating in and supervising each stage of the project.
- Tracking milestones, deliverables, and change requests.
- Serving as a liaison to communicate information regarding changes, milestones reached, and reporting other pertinent information.
- Facilitate the creation and maintenance of proper project/product documentation.
- Delivering completed software products to clients and performing regular checks on the products’ performance.
- Mentoring Junior Product/Project Managers
- Reporting to: Program Manager, Development Director
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree.
- 4+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager or Project Manager
- 5+ years of relevant experience in product development/project delivery/software project management
- Excellent communication, motivational and collaboration skills.
- Strong ability to influence cross-functional teams and leadership
- Strong leadership and organizational abilities.
- Strong attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
- Good English or French Communication.
Nice to Have:
- Master’s Degree in relevant field
- 4+ years of working with software/web development teams
- Preferred: French Native Communication
- Preferred: Relevant certifications (PMP, Management, Agile, etc)
- Preferred: Experience with Jira and Atlassian tools
- Experience handling multiple projects at the same time
- Experience working with remote teams.
- Experience implementing practices such as Total Product Maintenance (TPM), Scrum, technical PMS (Product Management Systems), and Agile systems
- Phenomenal teammate with a forward-thinking mindset, ability and confidence to challenge the status quo
