Senior Product Manager

Staples Canada•Richmond Hill, ON

11d

About The Position

This individual works with both the business and technical teams to build and maintain the core digital & eCommerce platforms for Staples Canada and deliver a commercially viable product roadmap. This position primarily focuses on providing product technical guidance, vision for innovative and scalable front-end platforms, and development of detailed monitoring dash boards. This individual should be able to collaborate, research new trends in the industry, and continue to modernize our systems while maintaining current platforms. This individual is ultimately responsible for development, integration, optimization, migrations, deployments, and maintenance of these critical business applications. He or she will support the future-state vision as developed by leadership. This position interacts with other cross functional teams like Software Development, Project Management, Quality Assurance, etc. to implement and deliver tools and processes to meet business needs.

Requirements

BS/BA degree or equivalent (MBA an asset).
Agile certification an asset.
Experience with product road-mapping tools, open-source technologies, public/private cloud technologies.
Prior direct/indirect people management experience an asset.
Experience with both Agile and Scrum from a Product Owner Perspective.
3+ years’ experience in a related field.
2+ years’ hands-on technical experience.
2+ years’ experience at an eCommerce company.

Responsibilities

Oversees the management of daily business activities to ensure that business priorities and end user expectations are being met.
Writes and prioritizes stories and develops business cases where required
Manages cross-functional relationships and communication.
Provides routine and transparent product updates via formal presentations and written communication.
Stays informed of industry trends and best practices for current products to shape how to go about meeting business needs while performing research and providing recommendations for enhancements to current suite of products.
Identifies key needs, perform gap analysis, assess new product ideas / innovations, determine market opportunity and participate in prioritization of initiatives.
Adapts well to change in direction and priority in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.