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Assembly (formerly a Redbrick company) is now proud to be part of SJC. SJC creates, publishes, and prints best-in-class content. SJC and Assembly are recognized as being the best at what they do, with a combined audience of over 35 million unique visitors per month.

SJC is Canada’s largest privately owned communications company. We partner with our clients to provide marketing solutions that inform, inspire, and empower audiences across every platform. As the owner and publisher of Canada’s most iconic portfolio of media brands—Maclean’s, Chatelaine, and Toronto Life to name a few—we provide incredible reach to an influential audience.

Assembly has been disrupting the digital publishing industry with innovative and award-winning technology that has turned traditional and digital media on its head. Since its inception, Assembly has experienced meteoric growth and now, as part of SJC, is positioned for the next phase of that growth. SJC has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for the last 18 years.

Are you ready to join a forward-thinking, creative, and collaborative team? Then come join us at SJC Media in this Director, Product role.

About The Role

In this role you will:

• Establish project scope by studying strategic business drivers; discovering and validating business and technical requirements and parameters; obtaining input from subject-matter experts; examining and recommending changes to current business practices.
• Develop and write proposals.
• Develop solutions by formulating objectives; planning project life-cycle deliverables and resource availability and application; preparing implementation and modification specifications; leading the exploration, evaluation, and design of solutions.
• Monitor project progress; track action items; conduct design and implementation reviews; examine, research, and resolve issues; escalating issues to appropriate authority; responding to team member’s concerns; coordinating requirements with interested departments.
• Provide project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.
• Accomplish organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Be the hub of communication for assigned projects – keep in regular contact with internal and external partners engaged in delivering the product.
• Balance project requirements across the organization, prioritizing projects, and tasks based on available resources and direction set by stakeholders.
• Conduct competitive research to ensure projects are considering the latest trends and technology in the marketplace.

Leadership

• Help establish the vision for each digital property; articulates and communicates the vision in a clear and compelling way to internal and external audiences.
• Deliver status reports to stakeholders as needed on business performance as it pertains to company products.
• Work with the Leadership team to implement strategy and business direction.
• Manage the hiring process, communicate responsibilities, and outline the workflow for all new product-focused employees.
• Manage the relationships of external partnerships and projects.
• Takes ownership for each digital property and is accountable for its measurable success.

Product Ownership

• Conduct competitive research to ensure digital properties are considering the latest trends in the marketplace.
• Continually explore opportunities to increase digital properties’ end-user value and revenue while working within advertising and business objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to establish, prioritize, and maintain the product roadmap for each digital property and make roadmap progress visible to stakeholders.
• Continuous use of evidence-based decision making in communication and prioritization decisions.
• Balances and coordinates requirements across digital properties, while ruthlessly prioritizing features and tasks based on input from stakeholders.

Agile Practices

• Follow contemporary Agile/Lean practices to deliver on business objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and the technical teams to groom the feature backlog, ensuring backlog items are ready to be actioned by the technical team.
• Clearly and concisely define feature acceptance criteria; collaborates with the technical teams and other departments as needed during feature implementation; verifies that the acceptance criteria met.

Operations

• Review digital property performance metrics (e.g., engagement, conversion rates, etc.); identifies and analyzes trends in performance metrics; escalates and reports on issues as needed; tracks issues through to resolution.

Other duties as assigned.

If this sounds right for you, click the apply link above!

SJC Values

• Amaze our customers: We put our customers’ evolving needs at the heart of the business and inspire through our ideas, quality and service.
• Be relentlessly curious: We take the initiative to learn, try new things and brainstorm the next big idea.
• Respect every individual as equal: We value diversity as the means to creativity and cultivate a collaborative environment where everyone belongs.
• Innovate and adapt with urgency: Forward-thinking and flexible, we react quickly and boldly to change.
• Contribute to our community: We apply our resources and passions to make a difference – for people and our planet.

SJC Perks

• Health and Dental Benefits
• Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP) and online health & wellness resources with Homewood Health
• Scholarship program for employees’ children
• Exclusive employee magazine subscription rates
• Discounted annual GoodLife membership

Accommodations at SJC

SJC is an equal opportunity employer. SJC is committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environments. If you are contacted for a job opportunity, please advise the Human Resources department if any accommodations are needed to ensure you have access to a fair and equitable process. Any information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.

Inclusion at SJC

Equality and respect for all is one of our founding values and core beliefs at SJC. We are a diverse group with associates of all ages, orientations, races and talents. We celebrate this diversity and we draw strength from it. Inclusivity at SJC means fostering a culture that welcomes and respects each individual as equal – both inside our walls and within the larger community.