Senior Product Manager

We are seeking an accomplished Senior Product Manager to direct the product strategy, roadmap, and delivery priorities for an enterprise digital services platform. In this role, you will be responsible for defining product outcomes, managing prioritized backlogs, and guiding initiatives through discovery, delivery, launch, and continuous improvement. Working across cross-functional teams - including service design, UX, architecture, engineering, data, privacy, security, and operations - you will champion reusable platform capabilities, oversee the onboarding of partner services, balance enterprise standards against specific program needs, and leverage data analytics and user feedback to maximize platform adoption and value realization.

Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)

Duration: 11-month contract.



Advantages
Strategic Platform Scope: Drive the product roadmap and architectural evolution of a centralized enterprise platform supporting multiple public-facing services.

Reusable Capability Leadership: Lead the prioritization of shared, enterprise-grade digital components that accelerate cross-organization service delivery.

Executive-Level Influence: Regularly deliver high-visibility product recommendations, roadmaps, and business cases directly to leadership.

Dedicated Onsite Collaboration: Work directly alongside engineering squads, design teams, and business partners in a collaborative Toronto workspace.



Responsibilities
Define, articulate, and maintain the overarching platform vision, strategy, multi-year product roadmap, and measurable outcomes.

Lead complex digital products end-to-end through discovery, iterative delivery, platform launch, and continuous improvement cycles.

Own, manage, and prioritize the product backlog, establishing clear sprint goals, release objectives, acceptance priorities, and definitions of done.

Prioritize reusable enterprise capabilities while leading service onboarding workflows, balancing common platform components with custom program requirements.

Translate strategic objectives, user needs, and policy mandates into structured product outcomes, epics, features, and user stories.

Utilize user research, quantitative analytics, operational data, and feedback loops to drive data-informed product decisions and track key performance indicators.

Manage complex cross-functional dependencies, scope boundaries, delivery trade-offs, sequencing, and operational risks across partner groups.

Facilitate alignment workshops, product discovery sessions, backlog refinement, demonstrations, and strategic decision-making forums.

Prepare executive briefings, options papers, business value propositions, benefits realization frameworks, and formal product recommendations.

Support operational transition, product governance, change management, and user adoption across all onboarded digital services.



Qualifications
Product Strategy & Vision: Demonstrated experience defining product vision, strategic goals, multi-tier roadmaps, measurable outcomes, and managing product backlogs (Strictly Required).

Full-Lifecycle Product Leadership: Proven experience leading complex digital products through discovery, delivery, launch, and continuous enhancement (Strictly Required).

Shared Platform & Service Onboarding: Demonstrated experience prioritizing reusable capabilities and managing the onboarding of diverse services onto shared enterprise platforms (Strictly Required).

Standards & Constraints Management: Proven ability to balance overarching enterprise standards and architectures with partner-specific needs and delivery constraints (Strictly Required).

Cross-Functional Alignment: Superior facilitation, negotiation, and communication skills with a proven ability to build alignment across diverse business, technical, policy, and executive stakeholders (Strictly Required).

Nice-to-Have Assets:
Prior product management experience within a public sector or enterprise platform environment.

Deep understanding of Agile frameworks, digital service standards, and web accessibility requirements (AODA/WCAG).

Hands-on experience developing business cases, value propositions, and benefits realization tracking frameworks.

Experience integrating data analytics, telemetry, and user research into continuous product discovery and delivery.



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!

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