Description
Riipen is looking for an experienced Product Manager to join our growing product team.
In this role, you will own a significant portion of the product roadmap and work closely with design and engineering to shape, prioritize, and deliver meaningful improvements to the Riipen platform. You will lead product development for a dedicated engineering pod of 4–5 engineers and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure the features we build deliver real value to our users and the business.
This role will have a focus on mobile product development (including our Hotwire Native mobile app) and enhancing communication and collaboration tools across the Riipen platform. These systems are central to how students, educators, and employers interact, making this an opportunity to directly influence core user experiences at scale.
You will play a key role in identifying product opportunities, defining solutions, and guiding features from discovery through delivery. We are looking for a product manager who is comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution, and who enjoys working closely with engineers and designers to solve complex problems.### Key Responsibilities
Own delivery for a portion of the product roadmap, ensuring features and improvements are delivered with high quality and meaningful user impact
Lead product development for a dedicated engineering pod of 4–5 engineers, planning and managing engineering sprints in collaboration with the engineering lead
Translate product strategy and user needs into clear product requirements and well-defined development work
Collaborate closely with design to shape user experiences and provide thoughtful feedback on proposed solutions
Partner with engineering to scope features, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and ensure efficient implementation
Prioritize new features, improvements, and technical investments based on customer needs, product goals, and business impact
Conduct customer discovery and user research to inform roadmap decisions and validate solutions
Work with QA to ensure high-quality releases and conduct user acceptance testing prior to deployment
Coordinate with other product managers to align roadmap priorities and ensure cross-team initiatives move forward effectively
Communicate product updates and roadmap progress to internal stakeholders
Identify opportunities to improve workflows, communication tools, and mobile experiences across the platform
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
You may be a good fit if you have: 5+ years of experience in product management*, ideally in a B2B or B2C SaaS environment
Experience owning product initiatives from discovery through delivery
Strong ability to translate customer problems into clear product solutions and requirements
Experience working closely with engineering and design teams in agile development environments
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Comfort making prioritization decisions in complex environments with competing needs
Experience with product development tools such as Jira or similar platforms
Nice-to-Have Skills Experience building or improving mobile applications*
Experience working on marketplace platforms or multi-sided products
Some technical or coding background
French language skills
Benefits
Remote/travel working opportunities (when appropriate)
️ 4 weeks of annual vacation
Paid sick leave
Extended Health and Dental benefits from your first day
We will ensure you have a great work-from-home setup
Learning \& Development Stipend after 6 months of employment
We appreciate your interest and application. Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Riipen is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, colour, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.### About Riipen
Conceptualized by Dana Stephenson and Dave Savory for their capstone entrepreneurship project at the University of Victoria, Riipen addressed an issue that they faced personally as learners — the challenge of gaining relevant work experience, building a network of possible employers, and then demonstrating their skills to that network in order to find work that would help them start their careers. They were facing the graduation conundrum — You can’t get a job without experience, but you can’t get experience without a job.
Since inception in 2013, Riipen has expanded its reach internationally and has developed a state of the art technology platform that caters and provides significant competitive advantages for organizations and academic institutions while staying true to their original goal of supporting student development. Riipen has enabled 193,000+ students at 590+ post-secondary institutions and training providers to partake in applied learning with 31,000+ companies. All of this leads us to our mission: Eliminate Underemployment.