Technical Product Manager

Are you looking to work as **Technical Product Owner **for a SaaS company with market disturbing ambitions? Are you interested in pioneering the way in Content Management Systems (CMS) aimed at accelerating processes used in pharmaceutical research worldwide? Are you up to the challenge of transforming how new drugs are approved by health authorities?

Montrium is building its next generation platform for clinical research, in a cloud-native, microservices architecture based on the Microsoft Azure platform ecosystem.

**Company Overview**:
Since it was founded in 2005, Montrium has evolved into a cloud-based solutions provider for the life sciences industry, while providing a blend of technology and GxP regulatory expertise to its client-base.

Montrium’s Electronic Document Management System platform (EDMS), branded “Connect”, is designed to help life sciences organizations maximize the effectiveness of their operations and improve compliance and traceability.

Today, thousands of users in over 35 countries use Montrium’s Connect platform to accelerate life sciences research.

Montrium brings together passionate individuals and experts who have many years of experience in life science methodology, regulatory compliance, quality assurance, system design and development. Our team has built a reputation through the industry for excellence and commitment to quality.

Montrium’s North American headquarters is located in Montreal, Canada and our European headquarters is based in Brussels, Belgium.

**Our commitment to our Employees and Customers**:
Montrium is committed to building trust and making a difference for our employees, customers, and the communities in which we live and work. We look to foster an environment that allows our team members to count on each other, be honest and make an impact every day. We prioritize autonomy and take pride in providing an equal opportunity workplace where everyone not only has a place to shine, but to be heard, exchange ideas without prejudice, build long lasting relationships and forge a career.

Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better by connecting people, processes, and technology together to impact patients’ lives.

Reporting to the Director of Product, the **Technical Product Owner (TPO) **is pivotal to development squads short
- and long-term operations and execution.

As a member of the **Product** group, you will:
**_ Be central to the Product and Engineering operations at Montrium._**
- Define the end-to-end execution of the product development, supporting the business & customer-centricity from discovery to support.
- Take the lead of scrum teams as the TPO while working in collaboration with all technical and support functions under Engineering and Montrium.
- The TPO is the primary communicator and link between stakeholders and development teams.
- Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries and requests related to the product development.
- Works in an Agile environment and continuously review the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks.
- Build, manage, and prioritize product backlogs, weighing priorities according to the needs and objectives of stakeholders.
- Work with business and technical stakeholders to identify and organize the steps required for the next iteration and manage expectations.
- As product backlog change frequently, the TPO must make the backlog accessible and available to all stakeholders (particularly developers) to ensure optimized performance and product outcomes.
- Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams.
- Build and present bi-weekly burndown and velocity chart to key stakeholders.
- Ensure synergy with other parallel initiatives to ensure optimum outcomes.
- Define, govern & report success indicators on the journey to delivering value.
- Work with internal and external customers to analyze and understand their goals, their preferences and discover insights through continuous customer, user, and stakeholder engagement and data analysis.
- Build hands-on experience of the Montrium product line.
- Work in close collaboration with Development, CX, and Quality teams to ensure that appropriate attention is given to 'Reliability Engineering'.
- Write technical system documentation (_e., Change Controls, Configuration Specifications_) based on the solution’s Requirements document in support of Product and development initiatives.
- Possible domestic and international travel may occur on occasions in support of Product mandates.

**_ Actively contribute to the operational excellence of the company._**
- Participate in Product and Engineering strategic and operational planning to achieve business objectives by driving innovation