Product Manager, Platform

About Kinaxis

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Ottawa and Toronto, Canada - Hybrid

This is an existing job vacancy.

The Product Manager, Platform, will own key components of the Maestro platform, including Embedded Algorithms, core application developer SDKs, and other core application services to support the platform modernisation. This role is ideal for a technically strong PM who can work across platform and developer-focused products.

• Play a critical role in developing and articulating the vision, strategy, roadmap and development for a new platform administration experience, improving configuration, monitoring, and admin workflows.
• Lead the roadmap and development for core application services, including Solver Studio and Advanced Solver Studio that allow developers to build custom heuristic and optimization solutions.
• Own Core SDKs ensuring usability, adoption, and ongoing enhancements for developers.
• Identify and lead updates and improvements to the application business logic tier.
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Architecture, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to deliver high-quality platform capabilities.
• Build trusted relations and engage with customers and stakeholders to validate requirements and ensure successful adoption.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, Computer Science, Operations, or related field. MBA or relevant advanced degree is an asset.
• Demonstrable Product Management experience ideally in enterprise software, platform environment, developer tools, or cloud infrastructure
• Strong technical background (software engineering, Dev Ops, computer science, or equivalent experience).
• Experience working with APIs, SDKs, platform services, and security features.
• Working knowledge of cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Strong communication, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to translate technical requirements into clear product direction and roadmap items.
• Agile and adaptable; excels at managing and prioritizing workloads in an environment of ongoing urgency, ambiguity, and change.
• Highly influential with experience gaining stakeholder buy-in and delivering a compelling Product vision

• Familiarity with optimization engines, scheduling systems, forecasting tools, or computation-intensive workloads.
• Experience collaborating with customers in highly regulated industries, understanding the unique challenges and requirements they face
• Experience with identity and access management
• Database experience – row level security is a plus

Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more.

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