Product Manager

On behalf of our public sector client, Affinity is looking for a Product Manager on a part-time basis.

Responsibilities:

• Working with a multidisciplinary team to promote internet-era ways of working and providing strategic direction

• Fostering the use of Agile methods for product delivery, including daily standups, working in sprints, managing features and product backlogs in tools such as

• Jira and Confluence, delivering minimum viable products and continuous improvement.

• Leading sprint planning, scrum meetings and retrospectives.

• Collaborating with the service owner to understand their business requirements and processes, along with providing recommendations based on experience and best practices.

• Communicating with the service owner for decisions and/or direction tied to priorities and sprint activities.

• Participating in and supporting testing activities (as required).

• Guiding the product release cycle, acceptance testing, and training internal clients.

• Communicating changes to testing resource(s) and ensuring completion of test activities and outcomes

• Documenting user stories and tasks and product backlog

• Developing and maintaining functional/business requirements and technical documentation

• Creation of release notes

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree and a minimum of six (6) years of related experience

• Experience with sprint planning and scrum management

• Use of JIRA and Confluence

• Product Management experience. Experience removing complexity from products and services, to help make it easy for people to do the things they need to do.

• Demonstrate experience creating, maintaining, and prioritizing product backlogs;

• Experience with Agile Software Delivery, and the different roles/activities required;

• Expertise working with design thinking/human-centered design;

• Ability to prioritize and manage high-level tasks under tight deadlines, exhibiting sound judgment under pressure;

• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with a knack for conveying information effectively to clients, peers, and leadership;

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About Affinity:

Affinity Group is a technology and business consulting and services company. We believe in creating long term relationships between clients and consultants that foster a mutually beneficial partnership. Affinity is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

For more information on Affinity, please visit www.affinity-group.ca

Job Number: 11289