Staff Product Consultant (6-month contract)

**Job Title:** Staff Product Consultant (6-Month Contract) **Primary Job Location:** Hybrid, Toronto / Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Ontario, Canada **Engagement Type:** Independent contractor, 6 months, with the option to convert to full-time **Division:** CrossDock Studios **Hiring Timeline:** Immediate **Compensation:** Competitive contract rate, shared on the first call **Application Deadline:** Open until filled. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. **About Fulfillment IQ (FIQ)** Fulfillment IQ is a supply chain engineering and transformation company that helps brands, retailers, and 3PLs design, build, and scale high-performance logistics operations. We work at the intersection of strategy, supply chain, and technology where we solve complex, real-world problems across warehouse design, automation, order management, transportation, and end-to-end supply chain execution. Our teams combine deep domain expertise with strong technical capability, delivering outcomes through consulting, systems implementation, and proprietary platforms that accelerate time-to-value and reduce delivery risk. **Role Overview** CrossDock Studios is FIQ's product studio. It houses our proprietary software, including Workbench, our warehouse-design platform that lets a solutions engineer draw a warehouse the way an architect draws a building. Product managers, engineers, designers, and scientists work side by side in the studio, and our PMs bring deep, hands-on supply chain expertise. We're looking for a senior product leader to build the studio's product practice and work alongside our PMs as a player-coach. You'll bring a clear, problem-first way of doing product management, help the team apply it to real work, and design the process that carries it across every product the studio houses. This is a 6-month engagement with the option to convert to full-time if it's a fit for both sides. **What You'll Do** * Bring a practical product management philosophy and method and help the team put it to work: problem definition (context, objective, scope, KPIs), root-cause analysis, hypothesis testing, and turning recommendations into a sequenced, prioritized plan. * Work side by side with PMs on live problems across CrossDock Studios products, including Workbench: reviewing problem statements, pressure-testing the "why," and running working sessions. * Design how product work moves from problem intake to discovery to solution options to engineering handoff, and own its adoption across the studio, including holding the team to the standard. * Help PMs run discovery directly with prospects, customers and internal stakeholders and build lasting relationships with them. * Help PMs build value and effort cases with finance, and set up the measures that show whether shipped work delivered its value. * Bring engineering into problem framing early, so solutions are shaped together rather than handed over. * Lean on AI tools for execution and sp