Digital and Information Management Lead

Ontario is looking for a dynamic, highly motivated Digital and Information Management Lead with experience in digital product delivery to join the Economic Development Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, to lead, design and deliver digital services and products to improve data and information management and provide user-centred services to agriculture stakeholders.

As the Digital and Information Management Lead, you will provide information technology expertise, product management, and analysis and evaluation skills to support the growing demand for the Agriculture Development Branch's digital delivery of knowledge translation and transfer, and to ensure more effective and efficient access to information. This position will involve delivering on priority information management and digital initiatives for ministry priorities (ex. plant health and production outcomes) and technology transfer to the agriculture sector.

We are looking for an individual with a background in developing digital products. We seek an energetic self-starter, with strong leadership capabilities. Your responsibilities include working closely with a team of internal technical experts and interacting with external stakeholders to define and deliver world-class products in an exciting, fast-paced environment.

**The Ministry**:
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs helps to build a stronger agri-food sector by investing in the development and transfer of innovative technologies, retaining and attracting investment, developing markets, providing regulatory oversight, and providing effective risk management tools. The ministry also helps enable rural Ontario to build strong, vital communities with diversified economies and healthy social and environmental climates.

**The Branch**:
OPS Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism:
We are committed to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful and equitable workplace.

What can I expect to do in this role?

**In this role, you will**:
Collaborate with development and user experience teams to deliver impactful products and build iterative, high-quality products.
- Motivate your team and everyone around you through great storytelling and communication.
- Be strategic and tactical - you'll help define the product strategy, but also roll up your sleeves and get it implemented.
- Lead products from concept to release, while ensuring smooth operations and continuous product improvement.
- Build solid relationships with partners to understand users' needs, program goals, and the program's policies and operational constraints so that you can develop products that are valuable, usable and feasible.
- Provide product management advice and guidance across the division and throughout the ministry to share expertise and build digital capacity in government.
- Demonstrate curiosity and seek to understand how a product technically works and ask questions and challenge assumptions.
- Demonstrate passion about the user, putting users at the centre of all you do.

What you bring to the team

You believe diversity and inclusion help create the best conditions for people to achieve the best results, knowing the best ideas come from everywhere and everyone
- A resourceful attitude and positive negotiation skills — you'll be working with different teams across the branch and the Ontario Public Service (OPS) as well as with external partners
- You are solution-focused and know how to get the job done
- You have a minimum of 5 years of experience in digital product management
- You are passionate about users and technology
- You have a proven ability to design new and innovative solutions
- You are able to work independently, anticipating and resolving problems

**Location**: Guelph

How do I qualify?

Product Management

You have experience developing a product vision and strategy, and have led multi-disciplinary teams to achieve that vision from concept to launch using such methods as agile.
- You have strong decision-making and prioritization skills.
- You have experience collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to translate the product vision into a backlog and lead the team through smooth and continuous delivery.
- You have experience working on a mature product, balancing the need to address technical debt with new product enhancements through continuous iterations.
- You have knowledge of, and experience with, project management methodologies, principles and processes.
- You have experience with, and an understanding of, product objectives, goal, and metrics in order to oversee the development and implementation of large-scale projects.
- You are experienced in change management and risk management principles and processes to provide leadership in the development of strategic plans and change management initiatives and their roll-out.

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