Product Manager in Toronto

Must Have:

• Product Manager with Mobile application experience.
• Agile and user-focused Product Manager with experience delivering enterprise mobile applications and digital products.
• Strong technical background with hands-on software development knowledge across mobile technologies (Kotlin, Swift, React Native) and backend services (Node.js, Go, Python).
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional engineering teams, business partners, and external stakeholders to drive product success.
• Experienced in managing product roadmaps, project timelines, dependencies, and risks, while providing clear executive-level reporting on milestones, progress, and success metrics.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

• Agile Product Leadership, Collaboration & Delivery – 35%
  • Establish and maintain the agile environment required for teams to build, test, and iterate on user centred digital credential products.
  • Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams through daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and iteration reviews.
  • Apply user centered design practices to ensure product decisions are informed by user research, accessibility needs, and real world usage patterns.
  • Manage iterative product development cycles, validating features through rapid prototyping, user testing, feedback loops, and continuous improvement.
  • Define the product roadmap aligning service needs and technical features with business goals.
  • Translate market, regulatory, and standards trends into actionable product direction.
  • Own product KPIs and success metrics such as adoption, credential issuance volume, and trust scores.
  • Manage the agile process for multidisciplinary teams—including product managers, developers, UX designers, researchers, DevOps engineers, architects, content creators, and identity/security specialists.
  • Remove delivery obstacles and coordinate with internal and external partners to maintain delivery momentum and unblock dependencies.
• Communication, Stakeholder Engagement & Technical Decision Support – 35%
  • Build strong, collaborative relationships with internal teams, partner ministries, industry partners, and governance bodies involved in digital credential ecosystem work.
  • Communicate complex technical and product concepts clearly to diverse audiences—executives, business units, developers, policy teams, and external stakeholders.
  • Work closely with engineering teams to evaluate solution options, trade-offs, technical feasibility, operational risks, and performance implications across mobile app wallet, agent, and backend components.
  • Set clear expectations for delivery timelines, risks, milestones, and dependencies, ensuring transparency and alignment across all stakeholder groups.
  • Identify and elevate issues, risks, and blockers early, driving timely resolution and ensuring product continuity.
• Technical Expertise – 20%
  • A solid computer science foundation that supports clear, effective communication with software engineers and technical specialists, enabling informed decision-making and technical alignment.
  • Has demonstrated previous experience with hands-on development and/or architecting software solutions.
  • Has knowledge and experience with developing software with at least one primary stack (e.g., Kotlin/Swift/React Native for mobile; Node/Go/Python for backend services).
  • Systems designs that consider services, data stores, queues, APIs, security monitoring/logging and scaling requirements.
  • Strong familiarity with API design, micro services patterns and modern cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS), supporting scalable and secure product delivery.
  • Proven hands-on experience building any software solutions including but not limited to development of open SDKs, backend APIs, and other technical components that support product delivery.
  • Practical experience working with modern mobile technologies, such as React Native, Swift, Kotlin, or similar frameworks, enabling effective collaboration with engineering teams across platforms.
  • Demonstrated understanding of mobile app architecture, e.g. SDK management, API integration and related architectural considerations.
• Digital Credentials Subject-Matter Expertise – 10%
  • Understand and articulate the technical architecture of digital credentials ecosystem including wallet components, credential issuers, verifiers, and trust registries, to ensure product decisions align with platform capabilities and ecosystem constraints.
  • Staying constantly informed on industry standards and innovations in digital credentials wallet.
  • Assess the impact of evolving digital identity frameworks (e.g., PCTF, NIST, eIDAS) on product functionality, compliance, trust scoring, and integration strategies.
  • Understand and articulate the roles and interactions of issuer, holder, and verifier, including trust chain considerations, protocol flows, and governance implications.
  • Evaluate and translate technical requirements related to W3C VC, decentralized identifiers (DIDs), credential status, revocation mechanisms, cryptographic assurances, and secure exchanges into clear product features and roadmap priorities.
  • Translate technical concepts (e.g., attestation, holder binding, revocation registries, storage models) into user-focused requirements and clear documentation that informs design, development, and stakeholder decisions.
  • Contribute to standards discussions, ecosystem alignment, and interoperability planning for digital credential platforms and wallets.