Senior Product Lead (Columbus)

Senior Product Lead

Welcome to TELUS Digital where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada's largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.

In January 2023, TELUS Digital acquired WillowTree, creating a combined firm with service offerings spanning Customer Experience and Digital Solutions.

With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas : Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.

From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.

Location & Flexibility

Our Senior Product Lead is an integral part of our Product Delivery team at TELUS Digital. To help retain our deep culture of collaboration, this role will maintain an in-office presence in a hybrid capacity 2-3 days weekly. This role can be located in Boston, MA, Charlottesville, VA, Columbus, OH, or Durham, NC.

The Opportunity

The Senior Product Lead is a highly autonomous role with numerous opportunities to substantially impact our teams, clients, and company. You'll blend core concepts of product ownership from Agile methodologies with a holistic product strategy and account management approach, incorporating technical expertise. You'll use your expertise to understand our client's needs, translate business requirements into actionable tasks for our development team, and collaborate with a diverse team of designers, strategists, developers, and test engineers to bring the client's vision to life.

We understand our responsibility to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive place within the tech industry, while pushing to make our industry more representative. Because of this responsibility, we need candidates who value diversity and inclusion through their work, team collaboration, or mentorship. So in your cover letter, we encourage you to reflect on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Build strong, trusting relationships with key client stakeholders, gaining credibility as a trusted advisor
• Lead client discussions around product vision and end-user needs
• Elicit requirements and manage complex requirement backlogs that consider multiple platforms
• Build a shared understanding of product requirements among all stakeholders (internal and external)
• Drive a strategic product roadmap that considers business value, technical lift, dependencies, and time and budget constraints
• Facilitate conversations around scope management and feature prioritization
• Collaborate with product designers to create best-in-class user experiences that are feasible and within technical constraints
• Run or assist in client journey mapping, user story mapping, and other product-oriented workshops
• Lead technical discussions with engineers to help define system architecture and data flows to guide feature development
• Effectively leverage analytics and metrics data points to drive informed decision-making and enhance product strategies
• Analyze and interpret data to identify patterns, trends, and opportunities for product optimization and improved user experiences
• Manage and document technical dependencies and API needs
• Provide meaningful contributions to the promotion of best practices, skills development, and process improvement
• Mentor other Product Leads, informally or formally

Qualifications

Even if you don't have expertise in all of the qualifications listed, we value new perspectives and backgrounds and encourage you to apply. We're committed to building a diverse company that reflects the diversity of our users. We're committed to a growth mindset.

Bonus Points

Equal Opportunity Employer

At TELUS Digital, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire and promote, are based on applicants' qualifications, merits, competence, and performance without regard to any characteristic related to diversity.

USA Pay Range $100,000 - $128,000 USD