Product Manager

Company Description

At Xplor, we believe that helping people make the most of each day is the most rewarding way to spend ours.

We give small and medium-sized businesses cloud-based, intuitive technology solutions that enable them to manage all the hassles of running and growing a business, so business owners can get back to doing what they love.

We are unified by our purpose of helping people to succeed. So, when you become part of our team, you also become part of the personal connection that strengthens the relationship people have with Xplor products.

Job Description

Role Expectations:

A successful Product Manager can independently lead and manage a business or product area within a brand. They are able to pinpoint customer value and identify iterative MVP solutions that can be delivered through collaboration with design and engineering team members. This person is directly engaging customers on a weekly basis to better understand the industry, customer pain points, and how their product delivery will solve customer problems. A successful Product Manager engages internal stakeholders to drive product understanding and establish a strong public narrative for release. They are continuously developing expertise in their business or product area through research, competitive analysis, emerging technologies and market trends. A Product Manager owns the management their roadmap and must have a clear understanding of the reasoning behind each decision, however they must consult their Brand Product Lead prior to making key changes to the roadmap.

Job Responsibilities

• Owns planning, vision, and implementation of features for your business or product area
• Engage current and prospective customer to understand and analyze their needs, business practices, and future plans
• Identify areas of improvement with your existing product area and fresh opportunities to thrill the market
• Engage internal stakeholders to drive product releases and support the public narrative for feature releases.
• Deliver clear and comprehensive product requirements to provide guidance to the development team
• Own the management and grooming of a product backlog ensuring tickets are ready to be pulled into upcoming sprints.
• Engage sales, marketing, and customer support to capture customer feedback and to ensure prompt and seamless delivery to the market
• Align your product roadmap with the broader product strategy and find balance in delivery between long term investments, shorter term wins, and tech debt
• Partake in the Scrum process and help drive effective scrum ceremonies including standups, grooming sessions, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Outline key metrics for success and articulate plans for continuous measurement and iteration.
• Ability to focus on customer value and identify MVP solutions that deliver on that value with the least amount of time, effort and risk
• Identify and eliminate low value work undertaken by their agile team
• Engage with design, research, and development to clearly articulate customer pain points and build a process for effective problem solving
  
  

The average base salary pay range for this position is $105,000 to $120,000 CAD

Qualifications

Product Manager Qualifications:

• 2+ years professional experience managing software products from inception through launch and iteration
• Ability to operate and engage with a product team with minimal supervision
• Experience and comfort engaging customers directly regarding product and business challenges.
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment
• Empathetic: you have a talent for understanding what our customers are trying to achieve and why they are trying to achieve it
• Analytic: you can spot the commonalities in seemingly different customer requests and identify opportunities to address them with a unified solution
• Innovative: you have a flair for bold ideas that can potentially deliver game-changing competitive advantages
• Strategic: you can slice big projects into pragmatic MVPs that maximize customer value with the least amount of time, effort and risk
• Collaborative: you believe that a team works best when everyone is communicating daily about how each person’s piece fits in the shared vision
  
  

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

We understand that diverse candidates have diverse needs. We welcome you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process, via [email protected].

More About Us

We're the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments, and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing ‘everyday life’ verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.

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