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Guelph, On, Ca

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

-Successfully identify emerging business needs and own several 0-1 initiatives at PropTech startup.-Champion critical product discovery methods including customer personas, user journeys, customer interviews and questionnaires with a focus on customer empathy and active listening. -Prioritize the product backlog to ensure focus is on the outcomes that are most meaningful to customers.-Own the team's product roadmap and ensure alignment with product vision and business objectives. -Lead a product development team with a "first among equals" approach with enthusiasm and positivity.-Mentor other product managers and offer insight and influence on product development processes.

-Own the Content Roadmap ensuring content themes are aligned with real industry problems.-Identify and define relevant success metrics/OKRs ensuring alignment with the wider Product Vision.-Manage and mentor an autonomous product team with emphasis on sustainable product skills.-Champion product discovery methods including customer personas, user journeys, customer interviewsand questionnaires with a focus on customer empathy and active listening.-Work closely with engineers in an iterative Agile product development cycle seeing features throughfrom discovery to launch.

-Holistic product ownership and final sign-off of product readiness.-Direct release management lifecycle overhaul resulting in the ability to measure the success of a givenrelease against well-defined OKRs.-Ensure alignment of cross-functional teams' release objectives with overall product vision.-Identify and manage of risk factors that affect release scope, schedule and quality.-Effectively communicate release objectives and timelines to internal and external stakeholders.-Consult with team leadership on prioritization of work in order to maximize release outcomes.

-Direct and lead cross-functional software engineering and technical team responsible for e-commerceintegrations that accept millions of transactions per year, both in the field and online.-Own the product roadmap relating to payment systems, financial reporting, and fiscal integrity.-Employ product discovery methods in order to fully understand the underlying problems customers face.-Prioritize the product backlog to ensure focus is on the outcomes that are most meaningful to customers.-Identify emerging business needs through market research, client interviews and quantitative analysis.

B.Sc., Biological Sciences, Honours

Cfa Level Ii Candidate