Role overview

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Forward-Deployed Product Manager - FDPM based in Canada.

This role is designed for a product leader who thrives at the intersection of customers, engineering, and product strategy.
You will act as a critical connector between client needs and technical teams, ensuring successful implementations and impactful product decisions.
The position combines customer discovery, requirements management, communication, and roadmap influence in a fast-moving software environment.
You will help transform complex business challenges into clear solutions while improving processes for scalable delivery.
Working closely with technical teams and customers, you will shape product improvements driven by real-world usage and feedback.
This is an opportunity to have direct influence on product evolution while helping organizations build flexible, modern operational workflows.

Accountabilities:

In this role, you will serve as the primary bridge between customers and internal product and engineering teams, ensuring alignment, clarity, and successful delivery. You will manage customer interactions, translate business requirements into actionable plans, and identify opportunities to improve products and processes.

Work directly with customers to understand business challenges, operational needs, and workflow requirements.
Translate customer feedback and business goals into clear, prioritized product requirements for engineering teams.
Own client communications throughout onboarding, discovery, scoping, and delivery phases.
Manage expectations, timelines, priorities, and feedback loops to ensure smooth collaboration.
Provide engineers with the context needed to deliver effective solutions aligned with customer needs.
Ensure consistency between customer requests, product decisions, development work, and delivered outcomes.
Identify recurring customer challenges and create repeatable frameworks, documentation, templates, and processes.
Improve internal workflows related to requirement gathering, handoffs, communication, and deployment processes.
Analyze customer insights to identify strategic product opportunities and contribute to roadmap planning.
Partner with product teams to prioritize impactful improvements that align customer needs with long-term product vision.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate combines strong product management experience with excellent communication skills and the ability to operate effectively between technical and business stakeholders. You should be comfortable managing ambiguity, understanding customer problems, and collaborating closely with engineering teams.

5+ years of experience in product management, solutions, customer success, consulting, or similar customer-facing roles.
2+ years of experience working within a software company, ideally in SaaS, ERP, enterprise software, or composable software environments.
Proven ability to manage relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong experience translating business requirements into actionable product specifications.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex concepts and create alignment.
Strong organizational skills and a structured approach to solving ambiguous problems.
Technical fluency sufficient to collaborate effectively with engineers and understand product development workflows.
Experience supporting customer onboarding, implementations, deployments, or solution delivery.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and balance competing stakeholder needs.
Willingness to travel approximately 15–20% as needed.
Experience with ERP platforms, internal tools, operational SaaS products, APIs, data workflows, developer platforms, or consulting environments is a plus.

Benefits:

Competitive salary range of $130,000 – $170,000 USD, plus bonus opportunities.
Fully remote work environment across North America.
Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
Flexible paid time off.
Opportunity to work closely with product and engineering teams on an innovative technology platform.
High-impact role with direct influence on customer outcomes and product strategy.
Exposure to complex operational challenges and modern software development practices.
Collaborative environment with ownership, autonomy, and opportunities for professional growth.

How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
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