Product Operations Specialist

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About the role

  • Product Operations Specialist improving processes, governance, reporting, and tooling at Kinaxis, a global supply-chain orchestration software company. Enabling consistent product delivery across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Product and Product Operations leaders to design, implement, and continuously improve Product delivery and execution frameworks, including execution planning, market validation, lifecycle governance, and standardized operating practices
  • Identify process friction, execution bottlenecks, tooling gaps, data-quality issues, inconsistent practices, and operational inefficiencies, and translate findings into scalable process, tooling, automation, and governance improvements
  • Establish and maintain program reporting structures, metrics, dashboards, definitions, and operating mechanisms covering execution progress, milestones, risks, dependencies, readiness, and outcomes
  • Drive consistency in product planning, lifecycle management, release readiness, and cross-functional decision-making
  • Optimize execution planning and delivery tools, workflows, integrations, and automation to improve consistency, data quality, visibility, and productivity while reducing manual effort and duplicate work
  • Facilitate alignment across Product, Engineering, UX, Customer Success, and other stakeholders to support successful delivery of strategic initiatives
  • Analyze operational data and trends to generate insights, recommend improvements, and support leadership decision-making
  • Champion continuous improvement by simplifying and standardizing Product execution practices, scaling proven approaches, and introducing best practices, automation, and AI-enabled ways of working

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Operations, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
  • 5+ years of progressive experience in Product Operations, Business Operations, Program Management, Product Management, or a related discipline
  • Experience supporting software, SaaS, or technology product organizations, with an understanding of how product strategy moves through planning, development, validation, release, and in-market operations
  • Demonstrated success designing, implementing, and improving scalable operational processes, execution frameworks, workflows, governance practices, and organizational standards across multiple teams
  • Experience leading cross-functional process and operational improvement initiatives and influencing stakeholders to adopt new ways of working without direct authority
  • Strong understanding of modern product development and delivery practices
  • Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and process-improvement capabilities, with experience identifying root causes and execution friction and translating findings into practical, scalable improvements
  • Experience developing operational metrics, reporting frameworks, and business insights
  • Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
  • Hands-on experience with product planning, work management, reporting, analytics, and workflow automation tools, with the ability to design scalable workflows, reporting structures, templates, and operating standards
  • Experience with Smartsheet and Atlassian is strongly preferred; experience with Aha!, Power BI, Microsoft 365 suite, or comparable enterprise platforms is an asset

Benefits

  • Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide days off)
  • Flexible work options
  • Physical and mental well-being programs
  • Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
  • Mentorship programs, training, and career development
  • Recognition programs and referral rewards
  • Hackathons

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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