Lead Technical Product Manager (Director level - individual contributor)

About the position

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Technical Product Manager (Individual contributor - Director level) within Product and Platform Services team. We are seeking a talented, motivated and driven individual who will be responsible for being a Lead Technical Product Manager for driving better Developer Experience when using Cloud services (Infrastructure/Containers, PaaS and Data Analytics) and Developer tools. Work arrangement: Hybrid - 3 days in office, 2 days from Home; Remote working option is not available.

Responsibilities

• Creating vision, strategy and elaborating use cases/requirements that engineering teams would love to deliver.
• Engaging with internal customers (business segments), application owners, developers, cloud operations and security teams, product managers, engineering team and leadership.
• Developing deliverable/release technical content for stakeholder consumption.
• Interacting cross-functionally with engineering, product managers, cloud operations team and internal business segments.
• Owning Product Owner responsibilities for Agile Scrum/Kanban squad(s).
• Maintaining a prioritized product backlog (epics and user stories) based on business value, ROI and company vision.
• Engaging with customers (business segments) on an occasional basis, soliciting requirements and prioritizing backlog accordingly.
• Creating technical content for stakeholder consumption.
• Owning roadmap for Manulife Cloud Container/PaaS/Data Analytics services.
• Delivering Solution/Feature Presentations/Demos at business reviews and meetings.
• Understanding and critiquing the architecture proposed by architecture team and ensuring that the engineering team delivery is aligned to addressing business needs.
• Working with scrum masters/program managers to track schedule against the roadmap, and escalate risks/issues.

Requirements

• Drive vision and strategy for Manulife Cloud and Developer Services.
• Product Owner certification required.
• MBA or equivalent strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in Cloud Services/software/automation industry preferred.
• 4+ years of experience in Product Management preferred.
• Experience in product owner responsibilities focused on Developer tools and Public Cloud Services, Software, Automation and Orchestration tools.
• Technical knowledge of Development tools, Public Cloud (preferably Azure) Containers, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Data Analytics technologies and GenAI technologies.
• Familiarity of GenAI technologies, Cloud automation, Devsecops and Application/Platform/Infrastructure security and monitoring tools preferred.
• Experience with Agile development/Scrum methodologies required.
• Leadership skills to take new challenges and creativity to take new approaches to problems.
• BS or equivalent required.
• Prior Product Owner background in software development and/or IT projects required.

Benefits

• Health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage.
• Adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits.
• Employee/family assistance plans.
• Retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions).
• Financial education and counseling resources.
• Generous paid time off program including holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days.
• Full range of statutory leaves of absence.