Senior Technical Product Manager (44368)

Description

Our team and what we’ll accomplish together 

We’re a Product Management team on a mission to develop an innovative solution that empowers companies globally to simplify, unify, and transform the smart living experience for their customers.  We are creating TELUS SmartHome+ Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings that enable our customers to sell differentiated services and facilitate rapid scaling. Your deep understanding of the smart home market will play a critical role in shaping the future of smart living globally.

What you’ll do: 

As a Back-end Product Owner, you will work closely with Feature Owners, Platform Software Development Managers, Platform Technical Leads and Platform Engineers to create a world class home security capability that will be used to deliver security services to end-users around the world. 

Specifically you’ll: 

• Be embedded within an Agile development squad, working with engineering leaders to set sprint goals and define the highest value problems for the team to solve
• Break Features down into Epics and User Stories that can be delivered in a single sprint, and create acceptance criteria definitions to guide design, development, testing
• Build, prioritize and manage your squad’s backlog of work related to new capabilities
• Ensure dependencies are mapped and work with engineering leads to plan sprints
• Define and measure performance against the KPIs for your Epics and User Stories

Qualifications

What you bring: 

You are likely in a similar product focused position today, but with a strong technical background.  You are or have:

• Customer-first mindset, with a track record of applying this to a diverse range of personas, including highly technical users
• Significant years of relevant work experience in platform product management or development, using Agile methodologies
• Known for your ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex dependencies  
• Exceptional storyteller with the ability to simplify messages to any audience

Great-to-haves: 

We’re especially motivated to connect with people that have one or more of the following:

• Both B2B and B2C or B2B2C experience
• Global or multi-market product management experience
• Strategic understanding of smart home and IoT technologies
• Expertise in any of the following: authentication, authorization, AI/ML, rules engines, event management, IoT device life cycle management, electrical engineering or grid management  
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science or equivalent practical experience; MBA is an asset