Product Manager

About the Role

We are looking for someone who wants to develop AI-backed products that have direct impact on the Government of Alberta's (GoA's) strategic priorities.

This person enjoys finding new business ideas through discussion with government leaders, end-users, decision-makers, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders. 

They discover: they excel at communication and work to deeply understand workflows, and pain points. They use their strong technical understanding of ML, and Agentic AI to identify where these technologies can solve problems to transform how ministries and programs work. They use their product and business acumen to identify solutions that could create outsized impact for the GoA and beyond, grounded in responsible AI and designs that ensure transparency and trust. They go on to test these ideas by getting the product into users' hands, collecting feedback, and iterating towards higher impact.

They execute: they collaborate with cross-functional teams to maximize speed towards delivering impact to customers. They must understand where business value, user needs, and technical feasibility connect to deliver scalable, adoptable solutions for public sector innovation. They must be able to conduct thoughtful market research, identify assumptions, create hypotheses, design experiments, and track industry / tech trends. All the while, they identify risks and assumptions and adjust the aspirational vision to meet the program's needs. They balance speed and excellence, delivering high-quality work at the pace innovation demands.

Finally, they humbly evaluate our own processes and outcomes and iterate to improve performance, ultimately driving the GovLab program's success and delivering products that have valuable impact to Albertans.. 

• Run discovery calls or workshops with a wide variety of internal and external users/stakeholders/customers to deeply understand workflows and pain points and identify product opportunities. Strong communication is paramount as this will involve collaboration with sales, operations, delivery, and technical teams, both internal and external. 
• Prioritize opportunities based on their potential value to citizens, technical feasibility, and strategic alignment with GoA priorities. 
• Assess and quantify the value of opportunities and delivered products, using both qualitative feedback and measurable outcomes to ensure initiatives create real impact for Albertans.
• Work collaboratively with our machine learning, software development to execute on product development using agile processes. 
• Identify and prioritize assumptions and hypotheses to effectively de-risk and validate product opportunities, including looking for opportunities beyond the first customer/users. Research product and tech trends to keep up to date with the rapidly evolving world of technology.
• Articulate a clear and compelling product vision and translate it into a detailed roadmap outlining key milestones, features, and timelines.
• Scale the product team's impact by championing product principles and practices across the AltaML organization.
• Ruthlessly examine our own processes and drive continuous improvement.

• Experience acting as a Product Manager for at least 3 years.
• Confident, clear, and concise communication, both internally and externally.
• Professional interaction with customers and executives.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Ability to make data-informed decisions.
• Experience with machine learning, including Agentic AI.
• Experience with building wireframes and prototypes.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and lean startup principles.
• Great storyteller

• Experience working in a startup
• Experience with 0-1 product management, ie. managing the full life cycle of a product, from conception to release and revenue.
• Experience managing multiple products.  
• Experience working directly with the public sector or government partners,navigating complex stakeholder environments and policy-driven constraints.
• Knowledge of additional functional areas such as Engineering, Sales, UX/UI, Customer Support, Marketing, or Finance
• Certification or training in Product Management through organizations such as Pragmatic Marketing or Scaled Agile
• Entrepreneurship training, for example going through Tech Stars, Y Combinator, and so on