Product Manager
JOB DESCRIPTION
This is a role built for a dynamic individual that has a passion for the big picture vision and the ability to roll up their sleeves to get into the details. Vertafore Canada, a division of Vertafore, primarily serves the Canadian Independent Broker distribution channel. In this role, you will help Vertafore Canada, define, analyze, scope, build and launch new solutions for the Canadian market.
You'll work closely with internal and external stakeholders, including insurance brokers and carriers, to understand roadmap goals/strategy and distill high-level requirements user stories that enable development teams to understand what problems need to be solved to create the best solution. As a Product Manager, you will also prioritize the development backlog and plan and sequence the work appropriately. As features are delivered, you'll work closely with our internal teams to ensure new features can be adopted.
Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success and FUN. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make an impact in your career.
Core Requirements and Responsibilities:
Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:
· Drive the full product development cycle from idea to delivery, demonstrating strong leadership skills and ability to execute initiatives to completion
· Facilitate and lead meetings with cross-functional teams, including insurance brokers, carriers and other external stakeholders, to get the clarity needed to document feature requirements to appropriate level of detail
· Support Product Owners to clarify user stories acceptance criteria where needed
· Collaborate with product management colleagues, development, and user experience design staff to lead on time, successful scope definition and feature deployment
· Design and deliver product training for your new solutions to internal cross functional teams
· Partner with Sales & Marketing as the subject matter expert for your assigned products
· Research and respond to questions from cross functional teams
· Self-starter able to take ownership with little direction
· Willingness to embrace ambiguity
Qualifications:
· Proven track record translating user research and customer feedback into detailed features
· Strong experience working on highly technical & integrated products
· Clearly communicate and defend their ideas strategies
· Have a passion for product quality and a user centric approach
· Are driven to improve, personally and professionally
· Operate best in a fast-paced and flexible work environment
· 3+ years' experience, preferably with enterprise solutions and integrations in a SaaS environment
· Share best practices that inspire everyone around them to raise the bar
· Have experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
· Exceptional ability to take detailed notes electronically in real time
· Ability to serve as both product manager/owner and product evangelist
· Self-starter able to take ownership with little direction
· Pragmatic Product Manager Certification is an asset
· Experience in P&C Insurance is an asset
· Bilingual, English & French, is an asset
Additional Requirements and Details:
· Travel required up to 20% of the time.
· WFH with stable internet as needed, with an option to work in our Montreal office if local.
· Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.
· Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
· Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).
· Frequent sitting and/or standing.
