Product Consultant

Summary

Join Apply Digital as a Product Consultant and contribute to the development and delivery of impactful digital products. You will work collaboratively with clients and a multidisciplinary team, owning product execution and roadmap delivery. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, building product strategies, analyzing user feedback, and ensuring alignment with business outcomes. The ideal candidate possesses a minimum of 3 years of experience in product management, with a proven track record of successfully launching digital products. Strong consultative skills and experience working with clients are essential. Apply Digital offers a hybrid/remote-friendly work environment, with a preference for candidates based in the Greater Toronto Area.

Requirements

• You are perceptive, a creative leader, and a problem solver
• You are professional, confident, and able to discern which ideas will work
• You have a minimum of 3 years of experience in a Product Management role where you developed digital products that you have shipped, managed, and operated
• Past experience in a consultation role or similar roles, through an Agency, Consultancy, or other Professional Services Firm is a strong asset
• You have performed product ownership and product discovery and are able to leverage relevant product management frameworks and mental models to validate problem spaces and potential solutions
• You aim to develop exceptional client service skills and excel in communication when working with your team, client stakeholders, and leadership
• You are comfortable navigating client situations and recommending paths to resolving uncertainty and can work effectively across disciplines in a client-facing capacity
• You have the ability to deconstruct epics into individual users stories and can lead a product squad to navigate uncertainty
• You thrive on turning ambiguity and conflicting information into clarity in a fast-changing environment
• You understand both technical and non-technical languages and can convey technical concepts to non-technical people as well as turn business, UX, design requirements into technical specifications

Responsibilities

• Assemble detailed requirements for product, platform, and commerce initiatives, navigating stakeholder and technology ecosystems
• Build and champion product strategies and vision throughout client engagements, as well as brief and inspire internal team members to deliver on that vision
• Retrieve and analyze feedback from end users, customers, stakeholders, other teams, and various research methods to shape requirements, features, and end products
• You are able to build trust and inspire confidence with clients by understanding their needs and using product management frameworks to align them on your thinking, rationale, and proposed decisions/recommendations
• Contribute to creating product plans and roadmaps with the goal of getting the buy-in of executive stakeholders
• Prepare, review, and achieve alignment on product requirements documents (PRD), product alignment documents (PAD), and product briefs
• Build products in an Agile fashion and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable an entire Agile environment towards your product
• Organize product releases and prioritize properly, ensuring compliance with business value expectations
• Prepare recommendations to track product use and impact on end users
• Ensure requirements have been delivered to specifications, defects have been managed through to resolution, and assess readiness for launch
• Prepare recommendations to expand product base and vision based on data and research-driven insight
• Add value to the team - you are not just an order-taker. You understand what it means to drive ROI through business and customer value, you understand the constraints from all directions, and you use your consultative skills to make recommendations to move vision forward

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems, including designing or implementing authentication and authorization workflows (e.g., Single Sign-On (SSO), SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC)) and role-based access control (RBAC), is a plus

Benefits

Apply Digital is hybrid/remote friendly