Technical Product Manager
Role Overview
Oversee development, evolution, and operational success of the Villager CMS platform and SPACES.
The role combines technical project management, including coordination, delivery, QA, and stakeholder communication, with product strategy, roadmapping, and innovation.
Work across editorial teams, developers, business leadership, and licensing partners to scale the platforms.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Oversee development, evolution, and operational success of the Villager CMS platform and SPACES.
The role combines technical project management, including coordination, delivery, QA, and stakeholder communication, with product strategy, roadmapping, and innovation.
Work across editorial teams, developers, business leadership, and licensing partners to scale the platforms.
Products and organization
Villager is a CMS built for hyper-local news media, powering 27 owned and operated community news sites across Ontario and licensed by media partners worldwide.
SPACES is a hyper-local social platform connecting residents, businesses, and local organizations.
Together, Villager and SPACES support community journalism and engagement.
Strategic leadership
- Define and own product vision, roadmap, and strategy with executive and editorial stakeholders.
- Prioritize features using user feedback, analytics, and digital-publishing market trends.
- Manage products from concept through launch and post-release analysis; develop business cases for features, integrations, and partner opportunities.
- Monitor competitors and emerging technologies; identify global product needs and localization opportunities with licensing partners.
Delivery and operations
- Manage timelines, sprint planning, and development deliverables; serve as liaison among editorial users, technical teams, and partners.
- Turn business requirements into technical specifications and oversee implementation and QA.
- Maintain product, API, and technical-standard documentation and ensure uptime, scalability, and performance targets.
Stakeholder collaboration
- Represent the product to internal teams and external licensees.
- Coordinate training, onboarding, and support for partner news organizations.
- Gather feedback from editors, developers, and management to improve platform usability and functionality.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of technical product management experience for web platforms, ideally in digital media, SaaS, or CMS environments.
- Strong understanding of web technologies, including CMS frameworks, APIs, and cloud hosting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including communicating technical information to non-technical stakeholders and engineering teams.
- Experience defining and delivering goal-aligned product roadmaps and writing Product Requirements Documents.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in news media, publishing, or content management systems.
- Familiarity with SEO, analytics, ad operations, and audience engagement tools.
- Working knowledge of UX/UI principles and user-centred design collaboration.
- Experience managing global partners or licensees.
Workplace
- The employer ideally wants the role to work from its Sault Ste. Marie office and is open to remote candidates in Ontario.
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