For over 20 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world's most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.
Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It's a place where you can genuinely make an impact - and be recognized for it.
We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers.
We encourage you to apply if your qualifications and experience are a good fit for any of our openings.
Your Role:
The Product Management team is responsible for executing product strategy, prioritizing and aligning roadmaps, and for researching and defining enhancements and upgrades to Global Relay products and services. They ensure our services solve important and urgent market problems.
Global Relay requires an experienced Technical Product Manager ("TPM") to assume ownership of Global Relay's Identity and Access Management product line ("IAM"). In this role you will be the bridge for a small, highly focused, cross-functional agile team and the rest of the TPMs, Product Management and stakeholders to deliver on the product roadmap, and to drive new products and features through the development process.
Working with Product Management, the TPM will define detailed business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for specific features, and collaborate with their Team Leads, Architects, and UI/UX to ensure high quality designs are produced. TPMs will also attend daily stand-ups, refine their team's backlog, plan sprints, accept completed stories, monitor progress, report status, and be involved in key release activities including documentation and training.
Your Job:
Working in a dynamic team environment, the TPM is responsible for:
Serving as primary product expert (functional, not technical) for the components for which you are responsible
Triaging incoming tickets and assigning them to the correct owner
Following up on status of projects, stories, tasks, dependencies and risks
Collaborating with and sharing status reports with the Product and DevOps Manager
Addressing impediments by connecting appropriate stakeholders
Coordinating meetings with external vendors
Assisting with the generation of reports, Wiki pages, and other artifacts that provide transparency into project status
Owning the up and down responsibility for the delivery of their component / feature for Administration, Identity and Access Management
Creating work estimates, tracking progress, and reporting status in the form of burn up/down charts and dashboards
Collaborating with senior product management, sales, support, clients, and other TPMs to produce and manage their component's backlog and contribute to the product roadmap
Lead the strategic development of new features and enhancements with ownership and development of a product roadmap.
Translating product roadmap initiatives and feature requests into requirements, models, workflow diagrams, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and other suitable artifacts
Identifying and coordinating cross-component dependencies throughout the development process
Working with Product & Program Management, Development, and other departments to actively remove obstacles blocking progress and ensuring product initiatives are within schedule
Supporting Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Provisioning, Professional Services, Technical Documentation, Training, and Technical Support throughout the release process with training, documentation, announcements, and other release activities
Prioritizing and refining their team(s) backlog
Attending regular sync ups with your product manager and other TPMs in your product team
Leading sprint planning for your Agile team(s)
Attending daily stand-ups, refinement sessions, demos, retrospectives and other meetings with your Agile team(s)
Understanding the design, business logic, and technical architecture of their platform components and how those components interact with the rest of the platform
Experience with any of the following is considered an asset:
Software Key Management services
Security, Authentication, Authorization, or Cryptography
Designing security first and around audit requirements
Administration and/or Identity and Access Management products and services
Delivering micro services
Large scale performance and scalability
About You:
3-5 years of experience as a product manager or project co-coordinator
Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field.
Adaptability to working with multiple teams on projects with varying degrees of flexibility/rigidity at different points in the development cycle
Experience with Agile and Scrum development methodologies
Experience with enterprise software and Software-As-A-Service (SaaS)
Ability to understand technical as well as business requirements and accurately capture technical notes and use them to update work tickets
Demonstrate a history of being able to work effectively with groups with different levels of technical and process experience
Ability to coordinate multiple inter-related projects
Experience leading cross-team initiatives and collaborating with stakeholders across the organization
Experience planning, monitoring, and reporting on project status for multiple initiatives/teams
Strong requirement elicitation, analysis, domain modelling, use case modeling, workflow design, and documentation skills
Nice to Haves:
Experience as a software developer/engineer
Experience working with reporting tools
Experience with a SaaS, messaging or enterprise software company
Experience driving cross-team initiatives and collaborating with stakeholders across the organization
Strong requirement elicitation, analysis, domain modelling, use case modeling, workflow design, and documentation skills
Experience planning, monitoring, and reporting on project status for multiple initiatives/teams
Compensation:
Global Relay advertises the pay range for this role in accordance with the pay transparency laws of the province of British Columbia. In addition to the annual base salary (range listed below), compensation for this role also includes a corporate bonus, extended health benefits, and RRSP Matching, and (for applicable Sales roles) an enticing commission structure.
British Columbia - Base Salary Range: $90,000 - $130,000 CAD
What you can expect:
At Global Relay, there's no ceiling to what you can achieve. It's the land of opportunity for the energetic, the intelligent, the driven. You'll receive the mentoring, coaching, and support you need to reach your career goals. You'll be part of a culture that breeds creativity and rewards perseverance and hard work. And you'll be working alongside smart, talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with complementary knowledge and skills.
Global Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We seek to ensure reasonable adjustments, accommodations, and personal time are tailored to meet the unique needs of every individual.
We understand flexible work arrangements are important, and we encourage that in our work culture. Whether it's flexibility around work hours, workstyle, or lifestyle, we want to ensure our employees have a healthy work/life balance. We support and value a hybrid work model that blends collaboration with the team in the office and focus time from the comfort of your home.
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