Program Manager
HybridMontréal, Quebec, Canada or Lévis, Quebec, Canada
Job Summary
Coordinate annual capacity planning and maintain monthly per-squad tracking of actual versus planned assignments across internal teams and contractors. Track actual spend versus budget for contractor cost buckets and internal resourcing, including grants, while maintaining rolling initiative forecasts and flagging variances. Manage program plans, risk registers, and release logistics, facilitating working sessions and maintaining a centralized source of truth for documentation. Prepare consolidated status reporting for the CPO and executive team, contribute to grant applications, and coordinate launch playbooks. This newly created seat at the table builds connective tissue for a fast-moving product organization, partnering directly with Product Directors and Group Product Managers to turn leadership decisions into smooth execution.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years in program or project management
- Track record managing complex programs with cross-functional teams including significant external dependencies and multiple stakeholder groups
- Strong cross-functional coordination skills across engineering, product, and external contractors
- Comfortable turning ambiguous signals into structured, data-backed reporting
- Thrives in ambiguity, comfortable building process where none exists yet, in a fast-growing, still-forming environment
- Proactive and self-directed, quick to spot gaps and risks
- Strong facilitation and influencing skills able to align teams and contractors without formal authority
- Excellent written and verbal communication, comfortable operating at a variety of altitudes
- High attention to detail
- Advanced Excel skills
- Hands-on experience administering a roadmapping tool (Aha!, Jira, or equivalent)
- Working knowledge of budget/forecasting concepts (burn rate, variance analysis, cost-bucket tracking)
- Comfortable building dashboards/reporting views from multiple data sources
- Comfortable using AI tools to support the work
Desired Qualifications
- Bilingual French/English
- Experience with grant reporting
- Light data-querying skills (basic SQL or advanced spreadsheet functions)
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