GoFor Hiring for Product Manager (remote) at Toronto, ON Full Time

As GoFor continues its expansion across North America, bringing our on-demand delivery service to new markets, we are looking for highly skilled, enthusiastic, and self-driven individuals to join our team.

We are a technology-driven logistics company that brings together retailers, wholesalers, general contractors, and tradespeople matching them in real-time with vehicle fleet operators, individual owner/operators, and rental fleet operators. Using our powerful technology platform, we harness idle logistics capacity and match it in real-time with industry professionals who need fast, reliable, trained, and on-demand delivery.

We are dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce with varied experiences, perspectives, and opinions. We believe diversity helps our team perform better and enables us to build an outstanding product for our customers. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to working with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process.

Job Overview

You would be joining a small, yet high performing Product team that comprises of a Director of Product, 2 Product Managers and a Product designer. In this role, you would be focused different parts of our business including the Customer Portal, the Driver Portal, Driver Onboarding ATS and the Driver App. You would be working closely with customer solutions team and external clients to define the best possible solution for customers. You would represent the voice of stakeholders by maintaining and prioritizing the backlog to ensure that the engineers are working on the stories that drive maximum business value. You possess strong analytic, communication and project management skills with a knack for getting things done under any circumstances.

This position is of a remote nature with preference given to candidates in the Eastern or Central Time Zones.

In this role as a Product Manager, you will primarily:
Work alongside Product Management to understand and define upcoming product updates / features.

Represent the target persona through from conception to delivery Inspire engineers to think about the customer experience as they craft the GoFor workflows.

Distill complex features so they are digestible to multiple levels of the business. Display attention to detail and a willingness to explain to others, both verbally and in writing to gain buy-in. Own the product backlog.

Work with R&D to maintain a healthy backlog of prioritized work items, ensuring the most valuable are being defined and addressed.

Identifying tangible elements of value to end users and deliver to market in a Continuous Delivery methodology.

Get into the field, sit with our customers to understand their core business needs; and

Maintaining and owning the product roadmap

Scoping, researching and investigating company requirements, problems and demands that are within the scope of Product team (ie. Issues that are addressed by technology).

Planning, organizing, completing projects

Owning projects at the Epic level.

Resource management, overseeing product owners.

Controlling product quality.

Documentation on product for internal and external use.

Tracking performance indicators and KPIs relevant to Product Team.

Creating and managing the business case

Managing changes and change requests (to Scope, Time and Budget)

Tracking and measuring project/team progress (epics)

Convincing and influencing other parts of the business

Evangelizing Product and influencing parts of the business outside of product.

Education & Experience:
Experience working with scrum teams and SCRUM/Agile methodologies

Strong facilitation and collaboration skills

Excellent technical and communication skills coupled with a strong technical aptitude

Technical proficiency to learn product configurations and train the internal stakeholders.

Background in Engineering

What do we offer?

Competitive salary;

Flexible Health Benefits;

A dynamic work environment inside one of the fastest-growing companies in North America.

Empowerment to take on important activities, apply your skills, and be recognized for your contributions;

A highly collaborative team environment where there are no egos or politics, we work together and get things done;

A work environment built on our founders’ belief that knowledge is power, transparency drives focus, collective well-being is nurtured, and return-on-life is far more important than return on investment;

Opportunity to work with amazing and talented people. No one succeeds alone; we execute together.

Closing Date:
January 31st, 2022

Accommodation:
We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. If you need to be accommodated during any evaluation phase, please contact us to request specialized accommodation. All information received concerning accommodation will be kept confidential.

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

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