Product Consultant - Talent Pipeline

ABOUT APPLY DIGITAL

Who we are: We're a global digital transformation partner for change agents, working to modernize their organizations. 

Who we help: Our 650+ digital specialists have helped global companies like Kraft Heinz, Moderna, Lululemon, Games Workshop, Atlassian, and The Very Group create business impact.

What we do: We offer clients end-to-end expertise across Business Strategy, Commerce, Platform, Products, Innovation, and beyond.

How we help: We work together as one connected team to drive business impact and ensure every strategy is actionable through to execution in the context of your organization’s broader ecosystem. We collaborate as cross-disciplinary pods and as extensions of client teams - ensuring the right perspectives contribute to creating connected, value-generating outcomes.

If you'd like to learn more about Apply Digital's culture click HERE.

APPLY DIGITAL TALENT PIPELINE:

Interested in joining the Apply Digital team, but don’t see an open role you connect with? Submit your resume below and we’ll add you to our Talent Pipeline.

When new opportunities open up at Apply Digital, we'll check our Pipeline. If your profile is a fit, we'll get in touch for an interview.

Please review the requirements below to determine if you would be a good fit and submit your resume.

LOCATION: Apply Digital is hybrid/remote friendly. The preferred candidate should be based in the Greater Toronto Area area of Canada, working in hours that align to ET.

THE ROLE:

Are you driven by the development of big ideas and their transformation into solutions that deliver business and customer value? Are you excited by the prospect of collaborating with a top-notch multidisciplinary UX, design & technology team to build digital products? If you have successfully led the whole process of building a digital product from discovery stage to delivery and launch, then the Product Consultant role at Apply Digital is perfect for you.

As a Product Consultant, you will work within the Product Management team and work in partnership with clients and directly and a multidisciplinary team of experts. You will own the product delivery and execution of the roadmap, gather requirements, understand the why, challenge our clients from a partnership perspective to ensure high quality of your solution and prioritize focusing on business outcomes, user value, and ROI of the products we build in partnership with our clients. In short, you’ll be expected to onboard with clients quickly, align internal and external teams, and deliver outcomes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assemble detailed requirements for product, platform, and commerce initiatives, navigating stakeholder and technology ecosystems.
• Build and champion product strategies and vision throughout client engagements, as well as brief and inspire internal team members to deliver on that vision.
• Retrieve and analyze feedback from end users, customers, stakeholders, other teams, and various research methods to shape requirements, features, and end products.
• You are able to build trust and inspire confidence with clients by understanding their needs and using product management frameworks to align them on your thinking, rationale, and proposed decisions/recommendations.
• Contribute to creating product plans and roadmaps with the goal of getting the buy-in of executive stakeholders.
• Prepare, review, and achieve alignment on product requirements documents (PRD), product alignment documents (PAD), and product briefs.
• Build products in an Agile fashion and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable an entire Agile environment towards your product.
• Organize product releases and prioritize properly, ensuring compliance with business value expectations.
• Prepare recommendations to track product use and impact on end users.
• Ensure requirements have been delivered to specifications, defects have been managed through to resolution, and assess readiness for launch.
• Prepare recommendations to expand product base and vision based on data and research-driven insight.
• Add value to the team - you are not just an order-taker. You understand what it means to drive ROI through business and customer value, you understand the constraints from all directions, and you use your consultative skills to make recommendations to move vision forward.

REQUIREMENTS

• You are perceptive, a creative leader, and a problem solver.
• You are professional, confident, and able to discern which ideas will work.
• You have a minimum of 3 years of experience in a Product Management role where you developed digital products that you have shipped, managed, and operated.
• Past experience in a consultation role or similar roles, through an Agency, Consultancy, or other Professional Services Firm is a strong asset.
• You have performed product ownership and product discovery and are able to leverage relevant product management frameworks and mental models to validate problem spaces and potential solutions.
• You aim to develop exceptional client service skills and excel in communication when working with your team, client stakeholders, and leadership.
• You are comfortable navigating client situations and recommending paths to resolving uncertainty and can work effectively across disciplines in a client-facing capacity.
• You have the ability to deconstruct epics into individual users stories and can lead a product squad to navigate uncertainty.
• You thrive on turning ambiguity and conflicting information into clarity in a fast-changing environment.
• You understand both technical and non-technical languages and can convey technical concepts to non-technical people as well as turn business, UX, design requirements into technical specifications.
• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems, including designing or implementing authentication and authorization workflows (e.g., Single Sign-On (SSO), SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC)) and role-based access control (RBAC), is a plus.

At Apply Digital, we value humanity, diversity, and authenticity as much as we do excellence and innovation. We aim to live our SHAPE values (Smart, Humble, Active, Positive, Excellent) every day in the work we do and how we work together.

If this aligns with your values, we encourage you to apply for a role that aligns with your experience.