Product Manager

Timezone

UTC -5 EST (Canada).

Why we are recommending

• We are building a diverse and inclusive company. As an equal opportunity employer (EOE) we do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
• We are a people first company that strives to create the best experience for our employees by creating an inclusive, collaborative, challenging environment to learn and problem solve on a daily basis. We are a remote-enabled company, so if you want to work remotely once, twice or five days a week, you’ll have all the necessary tools and support you need to do so.

Duties and Responsibilities

• As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for a conglomerate of critical financial payment process microservices. These systems interact together to form one of the largest high availability e-commerce solutions in our market. We work with multinational banks, acquirers and financial gurus to push the boundary of payment processing beyond the concepts of traditional fintech.
• You will work with your direct reports to understand, prioritize and define the customer needs, while working as a partner with the Engineering team. You will lead the product requirement gathering efforts and collaborate closely with the business to ensure alignment with product strategy, vision and customer needs. You will be working with fintech based technologies and services that have inward and outward facing clientele.

The Job

• Product vision and planning.
• Create and communicate the product vision and roadmap.
• Define product functionalities and prioritize business value.
• Facilitate internal needs analysis with various departments.
• Gather requirements using established methods such as interviewing, prototyping and diagrams, to create effective well-researched requirements (user stores) with clear acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with other Product Owners to ensure all dependencies with impediments are understood so new features can be released in a timely fashion.
• Manage team priorities.
• Set team iteration goals and objectives.
• Day-to-day monitoring of key metrics.
• Work with the Scrum Masters/Team Coordinators to ensure cohesion in the team process.

Skills and Qualifications

• 3 - 5 years experience as a Product Owner.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Experience with Scrum and Agile development methodologies.
• Strong analytical, technical, verbal and written communication skills.
• You live by the philosophy that great product development is a team sport.
• And requires flexibility and relationship building.
• You are able to work with all stakeholders and team members.
• Comfortable with multitasking, context switch and handle a high volume of.
• Work and pressure.
• You listen well, are open-minded and respect other opinions, but you are.
• Decisive and confident.
• Experience with Jira and Trello.
• Fluent in English.

Nice to have:

• Experience in the fintech space.

We offer

• We like what we do and like to have fun.
• Annual bonus plans and benefits package.
• Great Employee Benefits/Insurance plan.
• $500 yearly gym/fitness allowance.
• Education allowance to keep your skills and learning current.
• An amazing Mile-End office space (with metro access) in the heart of the start-up scene.
• And much more.