Product Manager
full-time•Toronto•$90k - $120k
Summary
Location
Toronto
Salary
$90k - $120k (CAD)
Type
full-time
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Product Manager
Department: Industry Managed Solutions (IMS)
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Toronto, ON
Reporting To: J
Compensation: $90,000 - $120,000 / year
Description
Role Summary
As a Product Manager at GS1 Canada, you will help build and lead empowered product teams dedicated to delivering remarkable user experiences and achieving impactful business outcomes. You’ll work closely with the Platform Product Manager, engineering, design, business stakeholders, and end users to define and solve meaningful problems for our customers. You’ll bring innovative product thinking, user empathy, and a collaborative spirit to everything you do.
This role demands a mission-driven professional who excels in product strategy and brings substantial cross-functional expertise in technical product management, engineering, design, and marketing. Your ability to bridge these disciplines, foster collaboration, and synthesize diverse insights into cohesive strategies is central to your success. Your informed knowledge and focus on customer needs drive value through the discovery, design, and delivery of high-impact solutions.
We’re looking for product leaders who can bring best practices, challenge assumptions, and help us build the right things, the right way.
This is a hybrid role, requiring periodic in-person attendance.
Key Responsibilities
User-Centric Leadership:
o Engage directly with users to uncover needs, pain points, and opportunities.
o Translate customer insights into validated product ideas and strategic initiatives.
Cross-Functional Expertise
o Leverage your experience and understanding across engineering, design, and marketing to drive cohesive, integrated product strategies and tactics.
o Act as a bridge across functions, facilitating clear communication, alignment, and coordinated execution.
o Have expert knowledge of GS1 standards and GS1 Canada’s solutions, services, and platform.
Vision and Strategic Alignment
o Develop and champion a compelling, clear, and outcome-focused product vision and roadmap that aligns platform capabilities, features, and APIs with corporate strategic plans and KPIs.
o Communicate clearly and effectively across the organization, aligning stakeholders and inspiring teams to achieve strategic goals and adopt a product-led approach.
Continuous Discovery and Validation
o Employ rapid prototyping, experimentation, and iterative feedback loops to validate product assumptions quickly and effectively.
o Work closely with engineering and design to refine solutions based on user feedback and analytical insights.
Outcome-Driven Execution and Delivery
o Define clear, measurable objectives focused on meaningful outcomes rather than simply shipping features.
o Prioritize ruthlessly using data-driven insights, ensuring products continually evolve to maximize business impact and user value.
o Lead teams in the delivery of value using agile, project, or other methodologies, as required, including the support of sprint planning, backlog grooming, user story creation, UAT and other delivery activities.
o Collaborate on CI/CD pipeline, monitoring, and incident response with DevOps.
o Support and guide others in developing core positioning and messaging for the platform and products.
o Champion delivery through to completion, navigating roadblocks, cross-functional demands, and management expectations, owning both functional and non-functional (scalability, performance, security, compliance) requirements.
Stakeholder Engagement & Influence-Driven Leadership
o Regularly collaborate and build strong relationships with executives, sales, marketing, and customer success teams to integrate their perspectives into product strategies.
o Foster a culture of transparency, accountability, and shared understanding around product decisions and outcomes.
o Drive complex, cross-team launches through program management rigor (roadmaps, scope management, dependencies, risk management, budgets).
o Evangelize platform progress and value to executives, partners, and users.
Foster Change
o Help shape a culture of empowered teams, continuous learning, and customer obsession as a product-centric change agent.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
· 3+ years of demonstrated product management experience in a SaaS environment, ideally leading empowered product teams.
· A strong grasp of product discovery, agile delivery, and outcome-based thinking.
· Strong experience building API-first data-driven platforms, leveraging AI, and launching mobile applications.
· Experience working in or transitioning toward empowered product teams as a change agent.
· Significant experience working cross-functionally, particularly with engineering, design, and marketing teams.
· Proven ability to synthesize cross-functional inputs into coherent product strategies and actionable roadmaps.
· Strong strategic mindset with exceptional skills in prioritization, decision-making under uncertainty, and balancing trade-offs.
· Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of clearly articulating product strategy and influencing stakeholders at all organizational levels.
· Deep understanding of agile methodologies, user-centric design principles, marketing strategies, and product analytics.
· Remain current on emerging technologies (i.e., AI and agentic models, prompt engineering, etc.) and pragmatic on how best to use them to deliver value.
· Deep understanding of agile methodologies, user-centric design principles, marketing strategies, and product analytics.
· Entrepreneurial experience and mindset are not required but considered an asset.
Other facts
Tech stack
Product Management,SaaS,Agile Delivery,User-Centric Design,Cross-Functional Collaboration,API Development,Data-Driven Decision Making,Stakeholder Management,Strategic Thinking,Product Discovery,Continuous Improvement,Communication Skills,Marketing Strategies,Product Analytics,Emerging Technologies,Entrepreneurial Mindset
About GS1 Canada
GS1 Canada is part of GS1, the global not-for-profit organization behind the first barcode and the world's most widely used supply chain standards. GS1 Canada supports business success through global barcodes and the development of industry-directed solutions that meet common business needs. Their collaborative approach, powered by GS1 standards, delivers measurable value to Canadian businesses of all sizes.
As a leader in product data quality, GS1 Canada ensures the seamless exchange of accurate, trusted data between trading partners, fostering operational excellence and consumer trust. By providing essential tools and insights, they empower industries to work smarter, reduce costs, and create a more sustainable future.
To learn more about GS1 Canada and our leadership team, visit our website: https://gs1ca.org/about-us/
Team size: 201-500 employees
Website: http://www.gs1ca.org
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Industry: Non-profit Organizations
Founding Year: 1997
What you'll do
- As a Product Manager, you will lead product teams to deliver user experiences and business outcomes. You will engage with users, develop product visions, and ensure effective execution of product strategies.
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What does GS1 Canada pay for a Product Manager?
GS1 Canada offers a competitive compensation package for the Product Manager role. The salary range is CAD 90k - 120k per year. Apply through Clera to learn more about the full compensation details.
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As a Product Manager at GS1 Canada, you will: as a Product Manager, you will lead product teams to deliver user experiences and business outcomes. You will engage with users, develop product visions, and ensure effective execution of product strategies..
Why join GS1 Canada as a Product Manager?
GS1 Canada is a leading Non-profit Organizations company. The Product Manager role offers competitive compensation.
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