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What Ontario Health offers:
Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:
- Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day
- Health care spending account
- Premium defined benefit pension plan
- 3 personal days and 2 float days annually
- Individual contributors start at 3 weeks’ vacation, and 4 weeks at 2 yrs.
- Career development opportunities
- A collaborative values-based team culture
- Wellness programs
- A hybrid working model
- Participation in Communities of Inclusion
Want to make a difference in your career? Consider this opportunity.
The Senior Product Manager is responsible for the strategy, planning and execution of product roadmaps. They create and manage the product backlogs in an agile SDLC. They are an expert in products across their division. They provide expertise in user research, strategic business analysis, requirements elicitation and facilitation. They motivate and organize teams to ensure product vision alignment and a thorough understanding of the deliverables. The Senior Product Manager will work closely with Software Development, Quality Assurance, Dev Ops, Experience Design and cross-functional teams at Ontario Health to deliver virtual care solutions. They initiate and champion change across the organization and actively seek opportunities for improvement within their product sphere and other product spheres.
Here is what you will be doing:
- Actively works directly with the product team to ensure a consistent approach to executing work assignments. Ensures the team’s lines of communication remain open and actively seeks feedback to continuously improve team dynamics.
- Identifies interpersonal relationship difficulties and help their team members and other department team members transition though difficult situations.
- Develops and is accountable for the backlog and roadmap for a specific product in collaboration with cross-functional teams across OH.
- Assists with the development and identification of product synergies to ensure swift delivery across multiple product portfolios within the organization and provincially.
- Develops the best user experiences possible.
- Jointly accountable for the quality of the products and services that are delivered to the customer.
- Engages both internal and external clients to gain a deeper understanding of their product domain and actively listen to their clients to understand their needs.
- Designs, develops, and leads user research to gain a deeper understanding of the client’s needs.
- Links multiple products across OH to deliver on client needs.
- Initiates and champions change by actively looking for opportunities for improvement across the team’s product management and agile practices as well as external team practices to improve the team’s lead time for their team’s product backlog and other team’s product backlogs.
- Leads the change in the adoption of new product management practices across the team, other product teams and external product teams.
- Anticipates project bottlenecks and blockers in short term and long-term product roadmaps across the organization and not just their immediate department. Works with multiple departments across divisions to overcome these challenges.
- Independently engages and actively participates in team discussion with other internal and external product management teams to recommend product features and changes to product features to improve the user experience, operation, and maintainability of the product.
- Mentors the team and across the organization by observing interactions and tactically applying their knowledge and skills to ultimately improve the lead time for feature development.
- Maintain expertise in their domain via interactions with external stakeholders and government organizations. Transfers knowledge to cross-functional teams and other product teams in the organization.
- Works independently with a low level of supervision and has the ability to determine when to escalate broader impacting decisions to management.
- Creates new Ontario Health business paradigms including new processes that are unique in the virtual health space.
- Provides excellent service to internal and external clients by identifying and meeting their needs and building and maintaining positive and effective working relationships.
- Leads by example, demonstrating integrity, creativity, and enthusiasm in achieving results directly.
- Works with the Product Management team in the definition of their Product Vision.
- Maintains a thorough understanding of the product and its logical architecture.
- Synthesizes the product vision and high-level business requirements into functional user requirements.
- Conducts User Research to identify and validate customer needs to reduce product development time and costly rework.
- Creates and manages the product backlog by maintaining knowledge of customer needs and industry trends in collaboration with product managers and their roadmaps.
- Leads sprint planning sessions to clarify the details of the sprint items and provide clear and concise acceptance criteria for user stories.
- Acts as the authoritative source for all requirements.
- Elicits requirements using a variety of formats and techniques including interviews, document analysis, workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists and competitive product analysis.
- Leads requirements analysis and verification ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable.
- Documents Non-Functional requirements such as security, privacy, legal and maintainability.
- Conducts impact analysis for the product in development to determine impact on internal and external stakeholders and systems.
- Collaborates closely with the Software Development, Quality Assurance, DevOps, and Experience Design teams in an agile fashion.
- Conducts stakeholder analysis and develops communication plans for stakeholders to ensure buy-in and awareness of the product release.
- Makes decisions where results have a critical impact across the organization requiring sophisticated solutions and long-term correction.
Here is what you will need to be successful:
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Health-related fields, Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 15+ years of experience with formal requirements elicitation and analysis techniques.
- 15+ years of experience in a software development environment in an agile environment.
- 15+ years of experience owning and managing product backlog and releases in a matrixed environment.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Master designation is an asset.
- Ability to apply specific agile practices to certain scenarios demonstrating Ri level Agile Mastery.
- Experience with healthcare integration projects considered is an asset.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Excellent Knowledge of documentation tooling such as Confluence Wiki or similar tools.
- Excellent Knowledge of JIRA or similar bug tracking tools.
- Excellent Knowledge of project delivery practices in a matrix environment.
- Ability to manage simultaneous projects from initiation to completion.
- Excellent knowledge of Process Mapping Techniques.
- Excellent Knowledge of SDLC.
- Knowledge of user centric design and innovation.
- Expert Knowledge of Business Domain specific to their product area and expert knowledge of business domain in other product areas.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills to look for opportunities for improvement; identify/resolve project bottlenecks and blockers in short term and long-term product roadmaps; identify/validate client needs; conduct requirement/stakeholder analysis; conduct competitive product analysis.
- Communications skills, both orally and in writing to actively participates in team discussion; elicit requirements using a variety of formats and techniques; document requirements; develop communication plans for stakeholders to ensure buy-in; collaborate closely with other teams.
- Ability to understand and apply new concepts.
- Strong interpersonal, fact finding and interviewing skills.
- Excellent organizational and multitasking skills and the ability to quickly shift priorities and adapt to changes to meet organizational and department requirements.
- Ability to make decisions where results have a critical impact across the organization.
- The capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically within product/project teams, cross-portfolio/cross-organization/external stakeholder interaction and ministry stakeholders.
Employment Type: Permanent Full-time
Salary Band: 7
Location: Ontario (currently hybrid; subject to change)
All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.
Internal Application Deadline Date: September 2, 2024
External Application Deadline Date: September 16, 2024
Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and urban Indigenous; Francophone; Black and racialized; members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; trans and nonbinary; and disabled.
We encourage applicants with accessibility needs to notify us if they have any accommodation needs in the application and/or interview process.
