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Project Lead, Digital Development (Telework/Hybrid)
- Location
- Toronto · Montreal
- Type
- Full time
- Posted
- 2H AGO
About the role
Position Title:
Project Lead, Digital Development (Telework/Hybrid)Status of Employment:
PermanentPosition Language Requirement:
English, FrenchLanguage Skills:
English (Reading - C - Advanced), English (Speaking - C - Advanced), English (Writing - C - Advanced), French (Reading - C - Advanced), French (Speaking - C - Advanced), French (Writing - C - Advanced)Work at CBC/Radio-Canada
At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance.
Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.
Unposting Date:
2026-11-26 11:59 PMThis position will not be filled until consideration has been made by the CBC/Radio-Canada/APS Workforce Adjustment Committee.
This is a hybrid position with a mix of in-office and remote work. Work arrangements will be discussed with hiring managers per departmental guidelines.
Your Role
Reporting to the Program Manager, you will join the Digital Products and Innovation team, where a major initiative to modernize CBC/Radio-Canada's digital ecosystem is underway to make it more resilient in a changing media landscape. This work is being done in close collaboration with several departments and will contribute to building the future of the public broadcaster.
As a Project Lead, you oversee the entire lifecycle of your projects. While ensuring adherence to deadlines, budgets, and defined scope, you provide motivating leadership to teams to guide their work, distribute responsibilities, and maintain a high level of commitment.
To achieve this, you will first need to contribute to the analysis and feasibility of the projects and propose the best approaches to meet the mandate's objectives. You will also need to plan the lifecycle stages of each project, from initiation to launch. Furthermore, you will need to follow up with relevant stakeholders and members of the various teams involved to ensure project progress, implement proactive risk management, and communicate status updates to stakeholders.
Note that our working methodology is hybrid (Agile and Waterfall).
What will your responsibilities be?
- Evaluate, coordinate and optimize human resources material, budgetary and project activities.
- Advise, guide and provide specialist expertise during the evaluation, planning or development of projects.
- Recommend solutions taking into account management objectives and CBC/Radio-Canada policies.
- Orchestrate the team's calendar, including agile events such as daily stand-ups, planning (sprint or kanban), retrospectives, reviews, cross-team dependency alignment, and any other relevant meetings.
- Develop the timeline based on the Product Manager's priorities (and/or sprints), factoring in scope, estimates, target delivery date, required resources, and budget.
- Formally manage requests for scope changes in evaluating and communicating their impact on timelines, team capacity and initial budgets.
- Align project timelines with the interdependencies of other initiatives and ensure that communication remains fluid between the different teams and stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain the project risk register and develop the necessary mitigation plans.
- Participate in negotiating agreements with internal and external stakeholders as needed for the projects.
- Establish control processes at different stages of the project and ensure compliance with acceptance criteria.
- Take full accountability for project reporting and status updates, and, in collaboration with the Product Manager and Program Manager, serve as the primary point of contact for senior leadership and executive committees.
- With the help of experts, find solutions to both technical and operational problems and constraints.
- In collaboration with the program manager, he defines and enforces the project governance structure (e.g., steering committees).
- Transmit blocking elements to higher hierarchical levels if support is needed.
- Identify, define, track and analyze key indicators to measure team delivery and performance.
- Fostering a self-organizing and high-performing team culture by promoting autonomy, accountability and cross-functional collaboration, while helping teams establish and overcome barriers to ensure smooth progress and value delivery.
How will you make the difference?
- Knowing how to apply Agile and waterfall work methodologies (waterfall).
- Adhere to best project management practices in order to strengthen quality and productivity standards.
- To foster a culture of collaboration across different teams.
- Support and motivate your team members.
What profile are we looking for?
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, master's degree in project management, or other relevant university degree (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum of seven years of experience as a project manager delivering complex digital products and projects, including end-to-end accountability for projects with significant cross-functional dependencies and alignment with governance committees as needed.
- Proven mastery of the complete project lifecycle: work organization, budget management, capacity management, scope control, risk assessment/mitigation and governance.
- Ability to manage projects with a strong technical focus.
- Excellent judgment, strong autonomy, ability to manage competing priorities.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience in leveraging the iterative cycle: frequent deliveries of new versions enabling rapid improvement.
- Mastery of Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, Tempo) and Google suite; knowledge of Google's artificial intelligence tools is an asset.
- Inclusive and unifying leadership, demonstrated ability to mobilize cross-functional teams, build trust and positively influence without formal authority.
- Demonstrated ability to move with ease and composure in rapidly changing environments. Great personal resilience, ease in the face of ambiguity and ability to positively support teams through change.
- Ability to quickly assimilate new technologies and adapt to changes by learning.
- Ability to share one's knowledge.
- Strong communication skills (oral and written).
- Excellent level of spoken and written French.
- PMP certification, agile certification or lean management an asset.
- Bilingualism (French and English).
Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.
We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next
step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes:
A mandatory Criminal record check.
Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.
CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That’s why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster. For more information, visit the Diversity and Inclusion section of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to recruitment@cbc.ca.
You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our corporate website. All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on conflicts of interest. In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.
Primary Location:
1000, Rue Papineau, Montreal, Quebec, H2K 0C2Number of Openings:
1Work Schedule:
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