Product Manager

Company Description

At Xplor, we believe that helping people make the most of each day is the most rewarding way to spend ours.

We give small and medium-sized businesses cloud-based, intuitive technology solutions that enable them to manage all the hassles of running and growing a business, so business owners can get back to doing what they love.

We are unified by our purpose of helping people to succeed. So, when you become part of our team, you also become part of the personal connection that strengthens the relationship people have with Xplor products.

Job Description

As a Product Manager, you will independently lead and manage a business or product area within our Fitness & Wellbeing vertical. You will identify customer value and develop iterative MVP solutions through collaboration with design and engineering teams. Your role involves direct weekly customer engagement to understand industry needs, pain points, and how your product can solve real problems. You will drive product understanding among internal stakeholders and establish compelling public narratives for releases.

Your responsibilities:

1. Own the planning, vision, and implementation of features for your business or product area.
2. Engage directly with current and prospective customers to analyse their needs, business practices, and future plans.
3. Identify improvement opportunities within your product area and discover fresh ways to delight the market.
4. Work with internal stakeholders to drive successful product releases and support the public narrative.
5. Deliver clear, comprehensive product requirements that effectively guide the development team.
6. Manage and groom your product backlog, ensuring tickets are properly prepared for upcoming sprints.
7. Collaborate with sales, marketing, and customer support to capture feedback and ensure seamless market delivery.
8. Align your product roadmap with broader product strategy, balancing long-term investments, short-term wins, and technical debt.
9. Actively participate in Scrum processes and help drive effective ceremonies (standups, grooming, planning, retrospectives).
10. Define key success metrics and articulate plans for continuous measurement and iteration.
11. Focus on delivering customer value through MVP solutions that minimise time, effort and risk.
12. Identify and eliminate low-value work undertaken by your agile team.
13. Work closely with design, research, and development to articulate customer pain points and build effective problem-solving processes.

The average base salary pay range for this position is $105,000 to $120,000 CAD.

Qualifications

What makes you successful?

As a successful Product Manager, you will continuously develop expertise in your business or product area through research, competitive analysis, and staying current with emerging technologies and market trends. You'll own your roadmap management with clear reasoning behind each decision, while consulting with your Brand Product Lead on key roadmap changes.

We're also looking for:

1. 2+ years of professional experience managing software products from inception through launch and iteration.
2. Ability to operate and engage with a product team with minimal supervision.
3. Ideally, you have PM experience with software platforms in the fitness, wellbeing, or recreation sectors (e.g., boutique fitness studios, gym management systems, municipal recreation platforms, or wellness apps).
4. Experience and comfort engaging customers directly regarding product and business challenges.
5. Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment.
6. Empathy: You have a talent for understanding what our customers are trying to achieve and why.
7. Analytical thinking: You can spot commonalities in seemingly different customer requests and identify opportunities to address them with unified solutions.
8. Innovation: You have a flair for bold ideas that can potentially deliver game-changing competitive advantages.
9. Strategic mindset: You can slice big projects into pragmatic MVPs that maximise customer value with the least amount of time, effort and risk.
10. Collaboration: You believe teams work best when everyone communicates daily about how each person's contribution fits into the shared vision.

Additional Information

What does it mean to work for Xplor?

Our four core values - Make life simple, Build for people, Move with purpose and Create lasting communities - are key to who we are and guide us from how we hire to how we recognise our team members.

Some of our perks and benefits are:

1. 12 weeks gender-neutral paid Parental Leave for primary and secondary carers.
2. #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back to your local community.
3. Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global Mentorship Program.
4. Access to free mental health support.
5. Flexible working arrangements.

How to apply?

To start your application with us, please submit your CV and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.

We understand that diverse candidates have diverse needs. We welcome you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process, via talent@xplortechnologies.com.

More about us

We're the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments, and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing ‘everyday life’ verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorized to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time.

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards only. Please don't send your application via email.

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/careers.

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/recruitment-faqs.

EEO and Artificial Intelligence

Please note that we do not exclusively rely on artificial intelligence (AI) when making hiring, promotion or any other employment decisions. We don’t have any AI tools in place that are capable of making these kinds of hiring decisions for us.

Xplor is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We're dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community.

We make it a priority to respond to each person who applies.

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