Simone T.

About Me

A passionate and driven team player with more than 16 years of online experience, Simone is committed to creating fantastic customer digital journeys. She has experience working in online gaming, the domain sector, and eCommerce. Having worked at small companies with significant digital footprints and Fortune 500, Simone offers expertise as a digital product manager and is certified as an agile scrum product owner (SPO) and an agile scrum master (SCM).

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Work history

Al Shaya
eCommerce Project Manager
2022 - Present (3 years)
Remote
  • Worked with teams to build the Online Returns functionality on a platform supporting over 90 global brands.

  • Managed vendor relationships that are supporting the eCommerce capabilities needed through the order management systems.

  • Collaborated with stakeholders to gather their requirements and provide timelines on delivery.

  • Supported a legacy OMS and IBM Sterling OMS and was part of the digital transformation occurring in the organization to move towards more eCommerce capabilities.

Pick n Pay
Program and Product Management
2021 - Present (4 years)
Remote
  • Collaborated with senior executives to build a product roadmap and product strategy for the next two years.

  • Mentored the UX team and set up customer insight tools to test the hypothesis and focus on the right features to bring to life based on what customers wanted.

  • Led the redesign of the eCommerce website focused on improving efficiencies and UX journeys and deploying a headless storefront with Hybris Spartacus.

  • Improved shoppable moments for favorites, shopping lists, and purchase orders that allow customers to add to the cart quickly and easily.

  • Participated in the build and launch of the AI search tool to improve the customers' personalization as they search for products they love and are yet to discover.

  • Created documentation to map out promotions linking, CRM promotions, a platform for eCommerce promotions, and ERP promotions platforms looking to streamline the complexity amongst the systems.

  • Researched progressive web app features to apply to the retail grocery website.

Stanley Black & Decker
Product Management Contractor
2021 - 2022 (1 year)
Remote
  • Collaborated with business stakeholders to define digital requirements needed to run their business channels.

  • Defined requirements with the front-end and back-end development teams.

  • Merged with third-party vendors to enrich eCommerce websites.

  • Collaborated with teams to build out pilot websites to test and learn.

  • Acted as the lead product manager on the employee store rebuild to allow employees to access the discounted product.

  • Acted in the scrum master role while coaching eCommerce project manager how to fill the role.

Grocery Gateway
Head of Digital Product Management
2019 - 2021 (2 years)
Remote
  • Worked with the digital team to build a product roadmap.

  • Served to build requirements for a digital transformation of the grocery website.

  • Coached and mentored four product owners to become subject matter experts.

  • Collaborated with business channels to define requirements into working digital components to achieve sales growth but also focused on user experience.

  • Incorporated Agile processes within a waterfall environment, converting teams to work agile.

  • Crafted hybrid mobile apps and gained exposure to setting up a progressive web app for an online grocery chain.

Tucows
Digital Product Lead
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
Remote
  • Managed a SaaS platform for millions of website owners as the senior manager for product management in the internet industry.

  • Built and maintained APIs from bugs to improvements and integrated new value-added services for customers to manage their website globally. Managed vendors for all API endpoints and new contract sign-ups.

  • Served as product owner, writing detailed user stories with acceptance criteria using Atlassian products and defining the definition of "done" across the scrum teams.

  • Launched GDPR (General Data Privacy Regulations) onto the platform and APIs managing thousands of retailers and hosted registrars. Worked with marketing on go-to-market strategies and regular newsletter content.

  • Launched new top-level domains to the B2B market, orchestrating launch and marketing endeavors.

  • Set up a process to streamline incoming vendor communication to write user stories for updates to the platform and APIs.

  • Coached and mentored junior project managers, orchestrated lunch-'n-learns to share information on product management and ongoing updates within the product team.

  • Conducted client surveys to validate hypotheses for upcoming platform upgrades.

  • Communicated the weekly progress of the product team with internal stakeholders and created an intake form of new requests and could be prioritized against the RICE method.

Well.ca
Head of Product Management
2015 - 2017 (2 years)
Remote
  • Negotiated promo deal with Visa and development funds to integrate Visa Checkout payment solution in the checkout flow.

  • Worked closely with VP of Operations on supply chain management through improved order management and warehouse systems.

  • Launched responsive site to allow customers to interact with Well.ca on their desktop, smartphone, and tablet.

  • Negotiated an affiliate opportunity to launch Well.ca baby registry using a third-party universal baby registry.

Walmart Canada
eCommerce Product Manager
2014 - 2015 (1 year)
Remote
  • Worked with third-party systems to build and maintain digital products and features on www.walmart.ca.

  • Worked with marketing, retail stores, legal and compliance, design, engineering, and content management teams to launch products to market and advocate for the best-in-class digital customer experience in an omnichannel environment.

  • Led the build of Lists from MVP to the more robust product offering.

  • Led the build of a baby registry, built all back-end and front-end user stories, and prioritized to launch MVP.

Betfair, MicroGaming, Atlantic Lottery
Digital Product Management
2000 - 2012 (12 years)
Remote
  • Worked to build product roadmaps with major business clients and account management teams in the gaming industry.

  • Built and supported business requirements with the development team to create new games and features on the casino platform.

  • Constructed Washer Toss, a mobile game for the lottery corporation, to support their mobile strategy into the Canadian Maritime demographic.

  • Worked with legal and compliance to ensure that all the work built met the standards of different gaming entities around the globe.

  • Built blackjack into the poker platform to support cross-functional gaming.

Bilditon
Product Management Consultant
Present (2025 years)
Remote
  • Collaborated with senior leadership to define business processes.

  • Wrote user stories for UX designers and developers, defining what the business wanted and why.

  • Performed user acceptance testing and created defects in Jira to prioritize work in a Kanban board.

  • Brainstormed new features and business logic with senior leadership.

  • Coached scrum masters in their role, trained teams on scrum ceremonies and how to get the most out of an agile team.

Metroland (Toronto Star)
Product Owner
Present (2025 years)
Remote
  • Built mobile push notifications for Android and iOS supported by the Appcelerator platform, acted as the product owner of the save.ca mobile app.

  • Trained and mentored the development and UX team to build user-centric features.

  • Constructed processes to support the Agile framework across the group.

Showcase

Responsive Website Build
  • Simone collaborated with design, front-end UI, and back-end development to prioritize and groom tasks for building a responsive website

  • Played key roles as product owner and scrum master to steer the project

  • Drove the responsive website project to its successful completion and deployment

Lists
  • Conducted market research, competitive analysis, defined user journey and customer analysis for the 'Lists' project

  • Built MVP for 'Lists', defining user requirements for APIs and UI

  • Collaborated with various teams to strategize go-to-market plans for both soft and hard launch of 'Lists'

Baby Registry Creation
  • Researched the Canadian and International baby market, built a business case showing target market share, and worked with UX for user journey definition.

  • Conducted focus groups, surveys, and collaborated with UX and engineering teams to define product and create a Minimal Viable Product (MVP). Prepared statement of work (SOW) for third-party front-end development and QA.

  • Implemented Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) for registry, and acted as product owner. Coordinated with various internal and external teams for successful product launch.

General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR)
  • Simone collaborated with internal stakeholders to identify and gather necessary domain lifecycle requirements

  • She ensured proper handling of end-user and B2B client data in compliance with GDPR

  • Worked globally, interacting with international clients

Search Improvements
  • Grocery Gateway utilizes internal Solr search on Hybris version 2011 for product search functionality

  • The original team implemented hardcoded search boost rules that didn't function properly

  • Simone improved the system by removing these hardcoded barriers to enhance the free-flowing search capability

eCommerce App
  • Simone served as the product lead in building a cross-platform eCommerce app for Android and iOS

  • The app makes it possible for clients to build affordable, robust mobile apps for eretail

  • The application reduces the necessity for large, expensive mobile development teams to publish and launch apps for end-users

eRetail in Hardware industry
  • Stanley Black and Decker is a top hardware company in the US with a strong global presence

  • In the era of digitization, the company is enhancing its existing digital capabilities

  • The project title is 'eRetail in Hardware industry'

Education

Education
Bachelor's Degree in Languages and Linguistics
Edith Cowan University
1994 - 1996 (2 years)
Education
National Diploma in Public Relations
Cape Technikon
1991 - 1993 (2 years)