About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Group Product Manager based in Canada.
Responsibilities
- Define and champion the long-term product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a broad portfolio, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market opportunities.
- Drive product-market fit and sustainable competitive advantage through customer research, market analysis, experimentation, and strategic positioning.
- Represent the product portfolio with executive leadership, cross-functional partners, and external stakeholders.
- Develop clear business cases connecting product investments to revenue, retention, ROI, and broader strategic value.
- Lead, coach, and develop Product Managers through regular feedback, meaningful 1:1s, career development, and continuous improvement.
- Establish clear direction and standards while delegating effectively, building accountability, and empowering PMs to make strong decisions independently.
- Lead high-quality product delivery from ideation through launch and iteration, ensuring key initiatives are delivered on time.
- Make timely, well-informed decisions around product value, technical risk, priorities, and trade-offs without unnecessary analysis paralysis.
- Use SQL, APIs, BI tools, AI tools, and lightweight prototypes to validate hypotheses and accelerate product discovery with minimal engineering dependency.
- Operate effectively within a seasonal academic environment where critical term-start deadlines require strong planning and execution.
- Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Design, Data, Go-to-Market, Customer Success, Marketing, and other functions.
- Lead through influence by proactively aligning stakeholders, resolving disagreements, and maintaining a clear product direction.
- Conduct customer discovery using prototypes, design partners, and pilot programs to validate concepts with real users.
- Identify problems and potential blockers early, communicate clearly, and ensure initiatives remain on track through completion.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience, including at least 1 year in a product management leadership or people-management role.
- Demonstrated experience coaching and developing Product Managers, including early-career professionals.
- Strong technical fluency with SQL, APIs, BI tools, and AI tools, with the ability to prototype independently or with limited engineering support.
- Proven track record of shipping complex, cross-functional products on time and to a high quality standard.
- Strong ownership and reliability, with a consistent ability to follow through, close gaps, and finish what you start.
- Experience developing business cases that incorporate financial projections, ROI analysis, and strategic value.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools through professional or personal projects.
- Strong customer discovery and product experimentation skills, including experience validating concepts through prototypes, pilots, or design partnerships.
- Excellent stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority and confidently engage senior leaders.
- Strong strategic thinking and the ability to translate ambiguity into clear priorities, decisions, and actionable plans.
- A growth-oriented leadership style, with genuine enthusiasm for coaching, mentoring, and unlocking the potential of others.
- Ability to challenge ideas respectfully, remain open to changing your position, and make decisions with sound judgment.
- Experience in EdTech, SaaS, or B2B2C environments is a plus.
- Experience leading integrations or complex multi-product initiatives, with an understanding of data interoperability, is advantageous.
- Background in accounts, billing, provisioning, platform, or infrastructure products is a plus.
- Experience managing products across web and native mobile surfaces is advantageous.
Benefits
- High-impact opportunity to influence products used by millions of students and thousands of instructors.
- Broad product ownership with the autonomy to establish strategy, priorities, and direction.
- Opportunity to lead and grow a team of Product Managers.
- Flexible, remote-first working environment in Canada.
- Competitive health benefits starting from day one.
- Professional learning and development opportunities across career levels.
- Innovative paid time-off approach designed to support self-care and work-life balance.
- Opportunity to work with emerging technologies, including generative AI.
- Mission-driven environment focused on improving teaching and learning.
- Supportive team culture with strong emphasis on customer impact, collaboration, growth, and performance.
- Access to a welcoming Toronto headquarters for employees who want an in-person workspace.
- Opportunity to work alongside passionate customers and cross-functional teams on meaningful projects.