We are seeking a strategic and results-driven Senior Product Manager to lead complex, high-profile IT initiatives in Toronto. This role is responsible for the end-to-end product lifecycle—from discovery to live deployment—ensuring that digital products deliver maximum value to end-users while aligning with organizational business objectives. You will lead a balanced team of designers and developers, navigating the transition from Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to full-scale enterprise solutions using Agile methodologies.
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Duration: 12-month contract with potential for extension
Location: Toronto, Ontario (Hybrid)
Rate: $562.69-$598.13/diem
Advantages
End-to-End Ownership: Direct influence over the entire product journey, from the initial "Alpha" experimental phase to "Live" operations.
High-Level Visibility: Regular engagement with senior executive forums and steering committees to drive decision-making.
Collaborative Culture: Work within a modern, user-centered design environment that values calculated risks and learning from feedback.
Flexible Model: Balanced hybrid work arrangement out of a central Toronto location.
Responsibilities
Product Vision & Strategy: Define and articulate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap (Now, Near, Future), ensuring the team understands the "why" behind the build.
Backlog & Prioritization: Manage and prioritize the product backlog, authoring user stories with the business product owner to ensure tactical design and development align with strategic goals.
Stakeholder Mediation: Act as the primary liaison between business teams and technical core members to maintain momentum and ensure products progress according to the roadmap.
Risk & Issue Management: Identify potential risk events proactively; prioritize and articulate issues at the senior executive level and recommend clear mitigation strategies.
Metrics & KPIs: Establish success criteria and maintain metrics dashboards to track product performance and ensure the team is moving in the right direction.
Agile Leadership: Lead a balanced team (UX designers, developers, and product owners) utilizing SCRUM delivery methodologies to ship software continuously.
Executive Communications: Develop executive summaries, success stories ("product wins"), and status updates for senior management and steering committees.
Qualifications
Relationship Management: Extensive experience in mediation, team building, and consensus-building within complex multi-stakeholder environments.
Product Lifecycle Mastery: Deep knowledge of delivery methodologies including Discovery, Alpha, Beta, and Live stages.
Agile Expertise: Proven ability to deliver products within a balanced team; Scrum Master experience is highly preferred.
Technical Ecosystems: Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and proficiency in backlog management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or Pivotal Tracker.
Collaboration Tools: Expert use of MIRO, Confluence, Trello, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
Strategic Thinking: Demonstrated ability to de-risk product direction based on validated customer research and business opportunities.
Soft Skills: Highly developed negotiation and presentation skills, with a track record of meeting deadlines for high-risk, complex initiatives.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior Product Manager role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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We are seeking a strategic and results-driven Senior Product Manager to lead complex, high-profile IT initiatives in Toronto. This role is responsible for the end-to-end product lifecycle—from discovery to live deployment—ensuring that digital products deliver maximum value to end-users while aligning with organizational business objectives. You will lead a balanced team of designers and developers, navigating the transition from Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to full-scale enterprise solutions using Agile methodologies.
Duration: 12-month contract with potential for extension
Location: Toronto, Ontario (Hybrid)
Rate: $562.69-$598.13/diem
Advantages
End-to-End Ownership: Direct influence over the entire product journey, from the initial "Alpha" experimental phase to "Live" operations.
High-Level Visibility: Regular engagement with senior executive forums and steering committees to drive decision-making.
Collaborative Culture: Work within a modern, user-centered design environment that values calculated risks and learning from feedback.
Flexible Model: Balanced hybrid work arrangement out of a central Toronto location.
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Responsibilities
Product Vision & Strategy: Define and articulate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap (Now, Near, Future), ensuring the team understands the "why" behind the build.
Backlog & Prioritization: Manage and prioritize the product backlog, authoring user stories with the business product owner to ensure tactical design and development align with strategic goals.
Stakeholder Mediation: Act as the primary liaison between business teams and technical core members to maintain momentum and ensure products progress according to the roadmap.
Risk & Issue Management: Identify potential risk events proactively; prioritize and articulate issues at the senior executive level and recommend clear mitigation strategies.
Metrics & KPIs: Establish success criteria and maintain metrics dashboards to track product performance and ensure the team is moving in the right direction.
Agile Leadership: Lead a balanced team (UX designers, developers, and product owners) utilizing SCRUM delivery methodologies to ship software continuously.
Executive Communications: Develop executive summaries, success stories ("product wins"), and status updates for senior management and steering committees.
Qualifications
Relationship Management: Extensive experience in mediation, team building, and consensus-building within complex multi-stakeholder environments.
Product Lifecycle Mastery: Deep knowledge of delivery methodologies including Discovery, Alpha, Beta, and Live stages.
Agile Expertise: Proven ability to deliver products within a balanced team; Scrum Master experience is highly preferred.
Technical Ecosystems: Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and proficiency in backlog management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or Pivotal Tracker.
Collaboration Tools: Expert use of MIRO, Confluence, Trello, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
Strategic Thinking: Demonstrated ability to de-risk product direction based on validated customer research and business opportunities.
Soft Skills: Highly developed negotiation and presentation skills, with a track record of meeting deadlines for high-risk, complex initiatives.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior Product Manager role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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