Technical Manager – OTT Team, French Services

Radio-Canada

Technical Manager leading and empowering cross-functional digital squads at CBC/Radio-Canada. Focusing on building capabilities and engineering excellence in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 6/3/2026contractMontreal • 🇨🇦 CanadaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Managing various development teams, supporting them on all technical aspects of the product to achieve the objectives and priorities set by Management.
Advising management teams in the analysis, design, planning, and evaluation of upstream work.
Acting as a catalyst in implementing technical solutions in collaboration with architects, development management, and the development teams.
Acting as a partner with directors and heads of Digital Media to ensure consistent direction: Demonstrating strong leadership by leading by example.
Acting as a leader and ambassador in implementing new ways of working and changes.
Taking a leadership role in identifying, communicating, and resolving issues encountered.
Attempting to resolve them before escalating them to the respective responsible parties.
Proactively proposing ideas and solutions to improve our ways of working and achieve our objectives, and actively participating in their implementation with management.
Responsible for global communication of all technical aspects of the OTT product.
Raising potential technical and human issues to Management; proposing solutions to these issues; Attempting to resolve them before escalating them to the respective responsible parties.
Ensuring proactive monitoring to propose improvements in OTT product work methods.
Based on the technical needs of the portfolio, guiding technology choices, as well as the training plans necessary for the implementation of these choices.
Responsible for hiring talent into the team; supporting hiring in related fields.
In charge of setting objectives and evaluating the performance of developers under their responsibility.
Accountable for the integration of talent into their respective teams.
Supporting management in their assignment choices for different projects; Representing the team's needs during management's assignment choices.
Monitoring employee progress; coaching/mentoring.
Contributing to the internal and external visibility of the product.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3-5+ years of experience in team management, either in a specific expertise or product, or a multidisciplinary team.
Experience in managing technical teams in an OTT context.
Experience in establishing agentic practices within development teams.
Ability to work in a team, excellent communicator.
Ease in navigating ambiguity and uncertainty.
Great ability to simplify technical concepts.
Excellent judgment, sense of initiative, great autonomy.
Your ability to rally the troops, to offer an inclusive, open, and collaborative work environment.
Rigor, autonomy, and a strong sense of responsibility.
Your knowledge of best practices in digital development workflows.
Your ability to manage complex situations with strategic, financial, political, operational, and human aspects.
Your ability to ask the right questions at the right time.
Proficiency in French and English.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work schedule prioritizing you, your family, and your work.
Possibility of working from home.
Competitive total compensation.
Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies.
Continuous learning and professional development opportunities.
Opportunity to be part of our affinity groups.
Buddy program and mentoring opportunities, allowing you to learn from the best in the industry.
Creative and dynamic work environment where your ideas and contributions are heard, valued, and respected.
A supportive leadership team committed to upholding the highest standards of diversity and inclusion.
An environment that encourages experimentation and an iterative approach to achieve the most advanced forms of technical innovation.

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Hard Skills & Tools

team managementtechnical team managementdigital development workflowsagentic practicesproactive monitoringperformance evaluationhiring talentcoachingmentoringproblem resolution

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationinitiativeautonomyjudgmentsimplifying technical conceptsnavigating ambiguityrallying teamsresponsibility