Product Owner/Manager

Not a BA Role, apply only if you are PO or Product Manager

Contract Period: 18 months with potential to extend or convert

Location: Toronto, ON

Location Type: Hybrid; In office 2 days a week -Tuesday is anchor day

Business Hours: Monday to Friday; Core Business Hours

Experience & Qualification Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree or product management certificate, and / 7 or more years relevant experience
• 3 or more years Product Owner or Agile related delivery experience
• Previous product experience typically required
• Thorough understanding of Canadian money movement capabilities and eco-system, and thought leadership required to understand the ever-changing online money movement and payments landscape
• Advanced knowledge of and ability to conduct product research, product analysis and development, forecasting, pricing, competitive intelligence
• Knowledge of competitor and market trends
• Skill in preparing and managing budgets
• Skill in using analytical software tools, MS Office, data analysis methods and reporting techniques

Job Responsibilities:

• Partner with management to support the delivery of a product vision
• In alignment with the product vision, create and maintain a product backlog and continuously re-prioritize user stories that will provide the most customer or end user value
• Review performance analytics; recommend and champion strategies to enhance the customer or end user product experience
• Proactively engage established business process partners to ensure customers or end users are prepared for application changes and establish Day 2 processes
• Manage delivery initiatives and oversee development team (pod) backlogs
• Consider development team and stakeholder feedback in backlog management, facilitating conversations with multiple stakeholders representing competing priorities
• Understand the internal business and technical environment, proactively defining, aligning, or integrating with relevant stakeholders, shared services control groups (or platform as appropriate