Product Manager at Swim Recruiting — NeverHard

6-month contract Product Manager focusing on developer experience for a global retail organization with an on site work environment. 6-month contract Product Manager role Growing team with strong ROI Primarily on-site work available in downtown Vancouver, 4 days a week in office What & Why: Our client is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for their Secure Delivery Platforms function which spans GitLab, Terraform Cloud, software supply chain security, DevOps transformation, and AI-enabled SDLC capabilities. This is a high-impact platform product role operating at significant enterprise scale, supporting 7 platforms across 23 products with over 1,000 customers each. You should be deeply customer-obsessed, with a strong track record of working directly with and on behalf of developer communities. You’ll define and drive a multi-year platform roadmap, translating enterprise priorities around security, compliance, and AI adoption into concrete platform investments. Day to day, this means partnering with engineering, security, and architecture teams to embed compliance and security standards directly into developer workflows, driving adoption of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-enabled tooling, and building the frameworks, golden paths, guardrails, self-service onboarding, that allow teams to move from idea to production securely and at scale. A key focus of this role will be supporting the organization's shift toward a more streamlined, consolidated platform model. This requires someone who can conduct meaningful market research, make informed recommendations on platform consolidation and tooling decisions, and bring both strategic thinking and technical credibility to those conversations. You can communicate equally well in an executive boardroom and a technical design session. Who: This client is one of the most recognizable Canadian brands, a true Vancouver success story who has expanded globally. They are well known for their corporate culture and has won major awards for their accomplishments. They have invested majorly in technology and have had an incredibly successful past few years, including a major strategic acquisition. They have an all-star leadership team who keeps you accountable and provides support while still affording you tremendous autonomy. They are located close to rapid transit in newly renovated offices in downtown Vancouver and this role will be primarily on site, 4 days a week in an office. You: You will bring the following education, skills and experience to the role: 8+ years of product management experience with a strong focus on platform engineering or DevOps ecosystems, including demonstrated experience owning developer experience as a product domain Hands-on familiarity with GitLab and Terraform Cloud is strongly preferred; experience with AWS or equivalent cloud platforms is a strong asset Proven ability to conduct market research and make strategic platform recommendations in environments undergoing consolidation or modernization Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage credibly at both the executive and engineering levels, across a complex, multi-team, large-scale platform environment Compensation: This role pays between $65-78 per hour. Next Steps: If the sound of this opportunity excites you, and you’re confident that it’s a good fit for your experience and career goals, then we’d love to hear from you! Please send your updated resume to us by applying to this posting and one of our awesome team of recruiters will be in touch.