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Senior Product Manager, Digital Credentials

Toronto, ON · Hybrid · Contract

Rate

CAD $100–$110/hr

Duration

12 months

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Required skills

  • Agile product management
  • Mobile application development (Kotlin
  • Swift
  • React Native)
  • Backend services (Node.js
  • Go
  • Python)
  • Digital credentials architecture
  • W3C Verifiable Credentials
  • API design and microservices
  • Cloud infrastructure (Azure
  • AWS)

About the role

Requirements: What you'll need

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications

Agile Product Leadership, Collaboration & Delivery

  • Establish and maintain the agile environment required for teams to build, test, and iterate on user centred digital credential products.
  • Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams through daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and iteration reviews.
  • Apply user centered design practices to ensure product decisions are informed by user research, accessibility needs, and real world usage patterns.
  • Manage iterative product development cycles, validating features through rapid prototyping, user testing, feedback loops, and continuous improvement.
  • Define the product roadmap aligning service needs and technical features with business goals.
  • Translate market, regulatory, and standards trends into actionable product direction
  • Own product KPIs and success metrics such as adoption, credential issuance volume, and trust scores
  • Manage the agile process for multidisciplinary teams—including product managers, developers, UX designers, researchers, DevOps engineers, architects, content creators, and identity/security specialists.
  • Remove delivery obstacles and coordinate with internal and external partners to maintain delivery momentum and unblock dependencies.

Technical Expertise

A solid computer science foundation that supports clear, effective communication with software engineers and technical specialists, enabling informed decision-making and technical alignment.

Has demonstrated previous experience with hands-on development and/or architecting software solutions. Examples may include (but not limited to):

  • Has knowledge and experience with developing software with at least one primary stack (e.g., Kotlin/Swift/React Native for mobile; Node/Go/Python for backend services)
  • Systems designs that consider services, data stores, queues, APIs, security monitoring/logging and scaling requirements
  • Strong familiarity with API design, micro services patterns and modern cloud infrastructure (Azure/AWS), supporting scalable and secure product delivery.
  • Proven hands-on experience building any software solutions including but not limited to development of open SDKs, backend APIs, and other technical components that support product delivery.
  • Practical experience working with modern mobile technologies, such as React Native, Swift, Kotlin, or similar frameworks, enabling effective collaboration with engineering teams across platforms.
  • Demonstrated understanding of mobile app architecture, eg. SDK management, API integration and related architectural considerations.

Digital Credentials Subject-Matter Expertise

  • Understand and articulate the technical architecture of digital credentials ecosystem including wallet components, credential issuers, verifiers, and trust registries, to ensure product decisions align with platform capabilities and ecosystem constraints.
  • Staying constantly informed on industry standards and innovations in digital credentials wallet.
  • Assess the impact of evolving digital identity frameworks (e.g., PCTF, NIST, eIDAS) on product functionality, compliance, trust scoring, and integration strategies.
  • Understand and articulate the roles and interactions of issuer, holder, and verifier, including trust chain considerations, protocol flows, and governance implications.
  • Evaluate and translate technical requirements related to W3C VC, decentralized identifiers (DIDs), credential status, revocation mechanisms, cryptographic assurances, and secure exchanges into clear product features and roadmap priorities.
  • Translate technical concepts (e.g., attestation, holder binding, revocation registries, storage models) into user-focused requirements and clear documentation that informs design, development, and stakeholder decisions.
  • Contribute to standards discussions, ecosystem alignment, and interoperability planning for digital credential platforms and wallets.

Must Have

  • Product Manager with Mobile application experience.
  • Agile and user-focused Product Manager with experience delivering enterprise mobile applications and digital products.
  • Strong technical background with hands-on software development knowledge across mobile technologies (Kotlin, Swift, React Native) and backend services (Node.js, Go, Python).
  • Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional engineering teams, business partners, and external stakeholders to drive product success.
  • Experienced in managing product roadmaps, project timelines, dependencies, and risks, while providing clear executive-level reporting on milestones, progress, and success metrics.

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