Product Manager
Kitchener, ON - Full-Time
Harled is a small, boutique software development team based in Kitchener, Ontario specializing in Ruby on Rails. Since forming in 2017, we have delivered projects for national defence, Indigenous reconciliation and tooling for high-performance teams. We believe in the missions of our partners, and are proud of the work that we do to support them.
Want to drive meaningful change with a great team? We're looking for a Product Manager to join our team and help deliver an amazing product that our users love.
We're building from the ground up, so help us shape the overall culture and approach to ensure we do great things in a repeatable and scalable fashion.
We offer:
- An opportunity to work with the coolest partner - our clients
- Huge opportunity to drive meaningful and immediate change
- A small, tight-knit company with a great culture
- An environment that embraces personal and professional growth
- Sweet office space at the Communitech Hub in Kitchener, ON
Remuneration & benefits:
- $80k-95k based on experience
- 2 weeks of paid vacation
- Health Spending Account
Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage the overall product roadmap and release plan
- Define and monitor performance of KPIs
- Communicate the state of the product, key accomplishments and challenges
- Balance product workload across delivery teams and organizational priorities
- Engage with a diverse set of stakeholders to ensure product-market fit
- Manage the agile product backlog, planning and retrospectives
Experience required:
- University Degree *
- Experience managing complex projects in 2 of the last 5 years *
- Experience successfully managing small teams through the development of operational solutions, ideally in a tech facing role *
- Outstanding time management, communication and presentation skills
Skills required:
- Strong attention to detail
- Drive culture of speed and quality
- Ability to thrive in small community environment
- Solid ability in both written and verbal communication
- Ability to solve complex issues
- Ability to multi-task with proven time management skills
- Upbeat can-do attitude with a sense of urgency and desire to make things happen
- Ability to be resourceful and proactive when issues arise
- Possess professional and solid work ethic
- Ability to meet assigned key performance indicators (KPI) in the timeline expected
Our dream candidate also has:
- You have experience with Canada's Department of National Defence
- You hold a valid Reliability status with the Government of Canada
- You have worked with figma and wireframing
- You are familiar with Azure DevOps
- You can write a little code ;-)
Hours of work:
- You are expected to work a minimum of 40 hours per week, with a bulk of the time during core working hours of 9am to 5pm EST, Monday through Friday. Due to the nature of the role, additional hours and hours outside of core working hours may be required and will be discussed on an as-required basis.
We're excited to meet you and to start the conversation to evaluate if we're a fit to do great things together!
Please Note: We thank all candidates for their interest, however, only individuals selected for an interview will be contacted.
Disclaimer: Harled Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and employees or applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by federal, provincial, or local law.
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