Associate Product Manager

**Volanté is an industry leading Enterprise Point-of-Sale (POS) company that sells its leading-edge hospitality solutions to blue-chip customers all across North America. With a team of over 100 employees in its Toronto, Ontario and Charlotte, North Carolina offices, Volanté's POS software has continuously demonstrated its ability to be flexible, scalable, and reliable in diverse environments.**

**Reporting to the Director of Product, we are seeking a motivated and experienced Associate Product Manager to truly own a core portion of our industry leading point-of-sale (POS) offering. The **Associate **Product Manager will partner with all stakeholders to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate business needs to ensure that the engineering team fully understands the project scope, objectives and requirements. The **Associate **Product Manager leads collaboration, facilitates sprint activities, creates, and communicates requirement artifacts that translate business needs into a top tier product. Through a combination of strong business understanding, solid analytical and problem-solving skills, the **Associate** Product Manager is a critical role in driving the features and future of the Volanté product suite.**

**WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING**:

- Specify the outcomes and priorities for large-scale Product initiatives as well as bi-weekly sprints
- Work with the Product Management team to coordinate requirements with other agile teams and stakeholders to deliver key business value to targeted markets
- Work closely with the Engineering team to build out sprint plans, create User Stores, and delivering valuable functionality
- Work closely with UX/UI to define the most intuitive and effective user experience
- Build out and manage a portion of the Product backlog
- Facilitate collaboration meetings with cross-functional teams in order to support key sprint activities include backlog refinement and sprint planning
- Lead feedback sessions with key stakeholders to gather all necessary details prior to initiative kick-offs
- Balance business requirements with technical feasibility, scalability, and the need to delivery rapidly
- Regularly deliver demos and presentations to key customers/stakeholders and senior management
- Quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate risks and trade-offs associated with each course of action

**WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR**:

- A University degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 3+ years as a Software Associate Product Manager or Product Owner
- 2 years of experience in a food service or payment processing industry as Associate Product owner/Product Manager
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong facilitation and collaboration techniques
- Excellent communication and strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to understand and interpret data
- Ability to present complex ideas simply
- Ability to prioritize and drive sound business decisions
- In-depth understanding of the software development process and Agile best practices
- Knowledge of the core principles of product management

**WHAT YOU'LL GET OUT OF IT**:

- Ability to leverage your experience to accelerate Volante's growth and achieve your own goals
- Work in Hybrid Model with some awesome, fun-loving, and diverse people
- Benefits Plan that includes Vision, Dental, and extended Health Care
- Perks: Free parking, company socials, flexible work hours, casual office environment, free snacks and more
- We are dedicated to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace. We believe that diversity in all its forms is a source of strength and innovation, and we are committed to creating an environment where all employees can thrive._