Senior Product Manager
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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Ref: RQ11741 Contract – 11 Months (Extension Possible) Onsite – Toronto (222 Jarvis St, 5th Floor)
Posted Date: 2026-10-29
Location: Onsite – Toronto (222 Jarvis St, 5th Floor)
Public Sector Experience: Required – OPS / Public Sector
Contract End Date: 2027-09-28 *
Rate: $102/hour
Overview
The Senior Product Manager will lead product strategy, roadmap, and delivery decisions for an enterprise platform supporting business services within the Government Services Integration Cluster, Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement. This role connects government priorities, user needs, ministry service requirements, and platform maturity to determine what should be built and in what sequence. The consultant will work across a broad range of disciplines - including policy, service design, UX, architecture, development, data, privacy, security, and operations - to guide discovery, manage the backlog, and drive measurable outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
This is a fully onsite role based at 222 Jarvis St, 5th Floor, Toronto, with 5 days per week in office required. No security clearance is required. The role operates within an Agile delivery environment and involves close collaboration with ministry partners, service owners, and cross-functional delivery teams across the Ontario Public Service.
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Ref: RQ11741 Contract – 11 Months (Extension Possible) Onsite – Toronto (222 Jarvis St, 5th Floor)
Posted Date: 2026-10-29
Location: Onsite – Toronto (222 Jarvis St, 5th Floor)
Public Sector Experience: Required – OPS / Public Sector
Contract End Date: 2027-09-28 *
Rate: $102/hour
Overview
The Senior Product Manager will lead product strategy, roadmap, and delivery decisions for an enterprise platform supporting business services within the Government Services Integration Cluster, Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement. This role connects government priorities, user needs, ministry service requirements, and platform maturity to determine what should be built and in what sequence. The consultant will work across a broad range of disciplines - including policy, service design, UX, architecture, development, data, privacy, security, and operations - to guide discovery, manage the backlog, and drive measurable outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and communicate the enterprise platform product vision, strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes to stakeholders and leadership.
- Prioritize reusable platform capabilities and service onboarding based on user value, enterprise value, readiness, risk, and delivery capacity.
- Own and maintain the product backlog, release objectives, and acceptance priorities across multiple capabilities and stakeholder groups.
- Translate strategic goals into product outcomes, epics, features, and delivery priorities.
- Facilitate product discovery, roadmap planning, prioritization sessions, and stakeholder decision-making processes.
- Use research, analytics, performance measures, and operational feedback to guide continuous improvement of the platform.
- Coordinate with ministry partners and service owners to align onboarding scope, expectations, and dependencies.
- Manage dependencies, trade-offs, risks, sequencing, and release priorities across delivery streams.
- Prepare executive updates, product decisions, options analyses, and recommendations for senior leadership.
- Support benefits realization, product governance, adoption planning, and operational transition activities.
- Develop business cases, value propositions, and benefits measures to support product investment decisions.
- Demonstrated experience defining product vision, strategy, roadmaps, outcomes, and backlogs for complex digital products or enterprise platforms.
- Experience leading complex digital products through the full lifecycle: discovery, delivery, launch, and continuous improvement.
- Experience prioritizing reusable capabilities and onboarding services to shared enterprise platforms.
- Experience balancing enterprise standards with partner needs and delivery constraints across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Ability to build alignment across diverse business and technical stakeholders, including program, policy, UX, architecture, development, and operations teams.
- Experience using user research, analytics, operational data, and performance measures to guide product decisions.
- Experience developing options, business cases, value propositions, and executive-level recommendations.
- Knowledge of Agile product delivery, digital service standards, accessibility, privacy, and public-sector governance frameworks.
- Excellent facilitation, negotiation, and communication skills with demonstrated ability to present to executive audiences.
- Experience with benefits realization frameworks and performance measurement in a government or public-sector context.
This is a fully onsite role based at 222 Jarvis St, 5th Floor, Toronto, with 5 days per week in office required. No security clearance is required. The role operates within an Agile delivery environment and involves close collaboration with ministry partners, service owners, and cross-functional delivery teams across the Ontario Public Service.
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Responsibilities
Lead the enterprise platform’s product vision, strategy, roadmap, backlog, and delivery priorities, aligning government objectives with user and ministry needs. Coordinate discovery and service onboarding across multidisciplinary teams, manage dependencies and risks, and support governance, adoption, benefits realization, and executive decision-making.
Requirements
Requires experience leading complex digital products or enterprise platforms through discovery, delivery, launch, and continuous improvement, including roadmap and backlog ownership and prioritization of reusable capabilities. Candidates must align diverse business and technical stakeholders, use research and performance data to guide decisions, develop business cases and executive recommendations, and understand Agile delivery, accessibility, privacy, and public-sector governance.
Skills
- Product Strategy
- Product Roadmapping
- Product Backlog Management
- Agile Product Delivery
- Product Discovery
- Stakeholder Management
- Prioritization
- User Research
- Analytics
- Performance Measurement
- Business Case Development
- Benefits Realization
- Executive Communication
- Risk Management
- Accessibility
- Privacy
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Government & Public Sector
- Technology
- Software
- Consulting
Keywords
- Enterprise Platform
- Product Vision
- Product Strategy
- Product Roadmap
- Product Backlog
- Agile
- Digital Service Standards
- Service Design
- User Experience
- User Research
- Analytics
- Performance Measures
- Reusable Capabilities
- Service Onboarding
- Benefits Realization
- Product Governance
- Accessibility
- Privacy
- Security
- Public-Sector Governance
- Business Cases
- Value Propositions
- Options Analysis
- Operational Transition
- Ontario Public Service