Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Job Description: Product manager for back end platform used by internal and external users.

Duties and Tasks:
– Manage and groom product road map and product backlog/bugs for the back end platform
– Define the scope and create business requirements and user stories for new features and products
– Meet with customers to identify their pain points and understand their needs for a back end platform

Qualifications:

Training: Learned to use JIRA, PowerSteering, Basecamp, Wrike, MSOffice (Word, Excel), MSVisio, MS Project and Confluence.

Education: A Masters in business education and it’s nice to have Computer science degree/diploma, but not required.

Experience: Over 10 years of experience in
– Product management and development
– Project management
– Business analysis
– strategy development

Skills and Attributes
– Personable
– Ability to work with different types of people
– Always want to learn new things
– Not to be afraid to ask a lot of questions
– Ability to work with cross-functional teams
– Ability to work independently and in a team

The things Vivien likes about this job:

– Salary
– Co-workers
– Option to telecommute
– Mentally Challenging
– Interactions with others

The things Vivien dislikes about this job:

– The commute
– Long hours
– Too many meetings

Changes to this job in the next 5 years:

– More strategy development
– Developing stronger relationships with clients
– Improving products and creating more

Three reasons why I would like this job:
– The salary
– Casual work environment
– Ability to work with a team and independently

Reasons why I would dislike this job:

– Hours
– Not my interests or passion
– Being on-call

Is this job for me?

This job isn’t for me because of many reasons. I feel like this job would be too stressful for me and I am not interested in this domain. My interests are more along the lines of programming and not project management. I want to be more involved rather than simply managing.

The Value of This Experience

To be frank, this experience was not what I thought it would be. I got the opportunity to see what many different careers do. Some other grades nines and myself were lead around the office for a while and spent time in many different teams in the office. I found out a lot more than I thought I would. I met friendly people who were open-minded and would ask you the questions. Their questions would lead to all sorts of amazing ideas. To end off this day, I learned a little more about how to write a resume, a skill that will surly impact my future. The way they taught us to write it seemed like putting your personally on paper.

After this experience, I’m more sure of what I want to do. I met with quite a few people who worked in programming and got to ask them questions about their experience first hand. This has greatly affected what I will do in the future. I now realize that programming is something I want to look into. It’s strange that the career I took away the most from and the one I wrote this about were different, but that’s just what happened. While I was there, I mentioned that I wanted to go to school in Quebec and someone told me about this would be a great idea and give me more edge when I get into the programming career.

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