At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead product teams to enhance processes and drive impactful change.
- Company: Join Bentley Systems, a leader in infrastructure engineering software.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, flexible work, and volunteer days.
- Other info: Collaborative culture focused on innovation and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in global infrastructure while growing your career.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in product operations with strong coaching skills.
The predicted salary is between 82800 - 101200 $ per year.
Location: Quebec, Canada, Hybrid (3 days in a week, in-office)
Position Summary: Reporting to the Bentley Open Applications Division COO, the Senior Product Operations Manager plays a pivotal role in enabling high-performing, empowered product teams. This role partners closely with division leaders, product managers, and development managers to shape and scale best-practice ways of working across the product lifecycle. This is a highly influential individual contributor role where you will combine hands-on coaching with organizational-level impact. You’ll help teams deliver meaningful value while also supporting the broader product organization to scale effectively through thoughtful processes, frameworks, and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate is experienced in working with cross-functional product teams, excels at coaching and facilitation, and is comfortable leading change in complex, evolving environments.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with cross-functional product teams to identify opportunities to improve ways of working and support teams in implementing sustainable change.
- Surface actionable insights and recommendations from 'on the ground' observations to leadership to drive organization-wide improvements.
- Design and implement lightweight frameworks, guidelines, and processes that improve effectiveness and efficiency (with a strong 'minimum viable process' mindset).
- Scale empowered, agile ways of working across multiple teams by sharing insights, patterns, and best practices in impactful ways.
- Ensure teams are using product and delivery tooling effectively to promote transparency, alignment, and measurable business outcomes.
- Provide hands-on coaching, training, and facilitation to product teams and leaders as needed.
- Support teams and leaders with OKR planning, decision-making, and outcome measurement.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement and support the adoption of practices that enable learning and adaptability.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience working with cross-functional product teams.
- Background in product operations or similar roles; experience as a Product Manager, Engineer, or Designer is a strong plus.
- Comfort with product and delivery tooling (experience with Aha! and/or Azure DevOps is a bonus).
- Strong facilitation skills, including experience with conflict resolution, group dynamics, and working across diverse personality styles.
- Ability to observe team dynamics objectively and provide thoughtful, constructive, and sometimes challenging feedback.
- Proven experience driving cultural and behavioral change through agile mindsets and best-practice adoption.
- Natural connector who can synthesize diverse inputs, align stakeholders, and help teams find a clear path forward.
- Excellent relationship-building skills with the ability to positively influence teams and senior stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments.
- Familiarity with infrastructure engineering and SaaS product organizations is a plus.
What We Offer:
- Step into a collaborative work environment where ideas flourish, and teamwork propels us forward towards shared success.
- An attractive salary and benefits package.
- Bentley Impact Day: take a day off from work to volunteer with an organization of your choice.
- Celebrate milestone achievements and moments that matter through our colleague recognition award programs and our Bentley Achievers platform.
- A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups.
- Be part of a company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world’s infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world.
Who We Are:
Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world's infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities. Our offerings, powered by the iTwin Platform for infrastructure digital twins, include MicroStation and Bentley Open applications for modeling and simulation, Seequent’s software for geoprofessionals, and Bentley Infrastructure Cloud encompassing ProjectWise for project delivery, SYNCHRO for construction management, and AssetWise for asset operations. Bentley Systems’ 5,200 colleagues generate annual revenues of more than $1 billion in 194 countries.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Bentley is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers for employment all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, religion/belief, national origin, caste, age, or any other characteristic protected by local law or unrelated to job qualifications.
Senior Product Operations Manager in Québec employer: 1125 Bentley Canada, Inc
Bentley Systems is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where innovative ideas thrive and teamwork drives success. With a strong commitment to employee wellbeing, growth opportunities, and community engagement through initiatives like Bentley Impact Day, you will find meaningful work that contributes to advancing global infrastructure. Located in Quebec, this hybrid role allows for a balanced work-life dynamic while being part of a company dedicated to making a positive impact on the world.