Mike Mariano

Senior Technical Product Manager — TELUS SmartHome+ · Intelligence & Automation

Summary

Strategic product leader with 10+ years building and scaling connected platforms — IoT ecosystems, AI-powered experiences, and high-performing product teams. Currently leading the SmartHome+ Intelligence & Automation portfolio at TELUS, translating household data into awareness, guidance, and action through alerts, insights, recommendations, and routines. North star: moving customers from reactive device management toward an intelligent home. Operates at Director scope; consistently given responsibility beyond title.

Experience
TELUS
2014 – Present · Progressive technical and product leadership across SmartHome and Health portfolios
Senior Technical Product Manager, Global Product, SmartHome+ Jun 2022 – Present
  • Founded and lead the SmartHome+ Intelligence & Automation portfolio — built around three questions every smart home should answer: What is happening? What should the customer know? What should happen next?
  • Deliver that vision through alerts, insights, recommendations, and routines — spanning Activity History through to future agentic experiences, moving customers from reactive device management toward an intelligent household operating system.
  • Defined north-star vision, operating model, and roadmap from scratch — aligning engineering, commercial, and executive stakeholders around a platform with long-term strategic differentiation.
  • Own strategy and roadmap for smart home automation and video products across mobile, backend, and connected hardware.
  • Bridge TELUS, device manufacturers, and platform teams — aligning firmware, cloud integrations, and feature design across the full stack.
  • Diagnose and resolve cross-layer reliability issues (mobile ↔ cloud ↔ firmware ↔ Wi-Fi) through telemetry analysis and cross-functional coordination.
  • Mentor junior PMs and shape team rituals that improve execution velocity and alignment.
Product Manager, Products & Services, SmartHome Nov 2020 – Jun 2022
  • Owned full product lifecycle for connected video — hardware, firmware, cloud, and mobile — from concept to post-launch.
  • Launched targeted initiatives that improved camera uptime, activation rates, and subscription yield.
  • Closed the loop on reliability by partnering with support and ops to reduce escalations post-launch.
Senior Client Relationship Manager & Project Manager II, TELUS Health Sep 2014 – Nov 2020
  • Led a delivery team executing digital product initiatives for national enterprise healthcare clients.
  • Held the line on scope, compliance, and client expectations simultaneously — often in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
  • Built deep client trust that sustained and grew long-term accounts through proactive issue ownership.
Dynacare
2010 – 2014 · Transformation & Project Management Office
Project Manager / Business Systems Analyst 2010 – 2014
  • Digitized high-volume operations through system transformation initiatives, eliminating manual workflows at scale.
  • Navigated complex regulatory requirements while scoping and driving technology projects with cross-functional leaders.
PointClickCare
2008 – 2010 · Long-term Care SaaS Platform
Product Owner — eMAR & Physician Orders 2008 – 2010
  • Owned backlog and end-to-end delivery for eMAR and physician order workflows in a leading long-term care SaaS platform.
  • Shipped compliant, intuitive experiences in a tightly regulated environment — bridging dev, QA, and regulatory teams.
  • Turned user feedback and competitive signals into sharp, actionable requirements that actually shipped.