Digital Product Manager

Our client is seeking a Digital Product Manager to join their team, focusing on Enterprise Enablement. This role translates company strategy into impactful execution by supporting a distinct platform domain, partnering with a dedicated Digital Product Team, and owning the domain’s backlog. For cross-domain initiatives, the Initiative DPM coordinates dependencies to ensure successful delivery. Backlogs are prioritized against a rolling 6-month roadmap aligned with business goals, ensuring high predictability and transparency for the next 4 iterations. The operating model emphasizes product-minded, agile execution, informed by consumer, client, and operational insights.

About the Role

This position provides Digital Product Manager (DPM) capacity for Enterprise Enablement, partnering with business, technology, and operational stakeholders to deliver shared capabilities that support business commitments. Enterprise Enablement encompasses shared capabilities like Enterprise Data and Enterprise Integration, including trusted data and reporting, reusable integrations, secure platform services, and governance controls. The role involves defining priorities and measurable outcomes, translating demand into actionable work, and ensuring solutions are designed for reuse, scalability, governance, and enterprise-wide adoption.

Why This Role Exists

To meet business commitments, additional DPM capacity is needed to address increased demand across Enterprise Enablement. This role will translate business and stakeholder needs into decision-ready priorities, actionable backlogs, and coordinated delivery across Enterprise Data and Enterprise Integration domains.

First 3 Months Success Measures

• Improve backlog maturity through consistent refinement, sequencing, and prioritization for Enterprise Data and Enterprise Integration.
• Establish iteration readiness for the next 2–4 iterations, with defined outcomes, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain roadmap visibility with a rolling 3–6 month view aligned with business and technology priorities.
• Enhance stakeholder alignment across business, technology, and operational groups through shared understanding of priorities, tradeoffs, risks, and outcomes.
• Document, escalate, and actively manage key dependencies, risks, and decisions.
• Provide engineering partners with well-defined backlog direction to support accountability and predictable delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own, organize, prioritize, and execute the day-to-day backlogs for Enterprise Data and Enterprise Integration Digital Product Teams (DPTs).
• Serve as the primary DPM point of contact for business, technology, and operational stakeholders.
• Build shared understanding around problems, priorities, outcomes, tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies.
• Identify opportunities to improve backlog maturity, roadmap readiness, stakeholder visibility, and delivery predictability.
• Partner with engineering to drive accountability, iteration readiness, and predictable delivery.
• Lead discovery, framing, pre-inception, and backlog refinement to translate stakeholder needs into well-defined problems, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.
• Maintain a refined, INVEST-ready backlog and 6-month roadmap aligned to reusable, governed, and scalable enterprise capabilities.
• Prioritize work using stakeholder input, operational insights, platform/data signals, technical dependencies, risk reduction, enablement impact, and OKR progress.
• Sequence work by iteration in partnership with engineering, architecture, data, security, and operations teams, balancing business commitments, technical dependencies, risk, and delivery capacity.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and tradeoffs across Enterprise Data, Enterprise Integration, and business domain teams to support initiative-level delivery.
• Provide visibility into current priorities, delivery progress, risks, decisions, next steps, and measurable outcomes for stakeholders and Digital Product Teams.
• Represent business domain and internal team needs in backlog refinement, iteration planning, demos, and tradeoff discussions to align delivery with agreed outcomes.
• Evaluate enablement metrics such as adoption, data quality, reporting reliability, integration reuse, platform performance, incident trends, governance adherence, and delivery predictability.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, security, data, and operations teams to ensure solutions are reusable, scalable, governed, reliable, and operationally supportable.

Requirements

• Strong communication and relationship management skills across business, product, engineering, architecture, security, data, and operations teams.
• Working knowledge of enterprise systems, data platforms, reporting, APIs, event-driven integrations, identity and access management, governance controls, shared services, reliability, observability, and cloud-based solutions.
• Ability to quickly identify root causes and drive holistic, data-driven solutions.
• Expertise in agile principles and frameworks (XP, Scrum) throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to prioritize capabilities based on business value, enterprise reuse, enablement impact, operational risk, technical dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
• Proficiency in project management tools such as VersionOne and Jira.
• Familiarity with software engineering best practices, including code review, unit test coverage, static analysis, Definition of Done, and story estimation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, IT, Business Administration, or a related field (preferred).
• Technical background (preferred).
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), or Pragmatic Institute Foundations certification (an asset).

Skills

• Product ownership knowledge and experience applying agile methodologies and prioritization techniques.
• Strong user story writing skills, including INVEST-ready stories, clear acceptance criteria, and Gherkin syntax.
• Domain-driven design knowledge.
• Product mindset, outcome-based approach, and human-centered design expertise.
• Domain experience in enterprise data and reporting, data governance, APIs and event-driven integrations, reliability, observability, and enterprise systems enablement.
• Outcome-based delivery mindset and experience (preferred).
• Familiarity with enterprise enablement domains, including AI-ready data, data governance, security, compliance, APIs, event-driven integration, identity and access, platform reliability, and operational automation (preferred).

Pay

$80–$95/hour (depends on experience level).

Schedule

This is a contract position with candidates expected to work 40 hours per week.