Product Owner - Advanced

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Hybrid (Downtown, Toronto)
Duration: 12 months

Our client, a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto, is looking for a Product Owner - Advanced to be responsible for the product vision, establishment, communication, stakeholder management, and product success. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in role:

• Manage day-to-day operation of Bank's Wealth Management’s global public web properties as a partner to global marketing teams. Tasks can include, but are not limited to platform readiness activities, issue solutioning, stakeholder management, digital content, and campaign delivery.
• Own the responsibility for building the right product and to be the voice of the customer (e.g. external customer, internal operations user, etc.) to the team.
• Ensure optimal Feature delivery; the product owner collaborates with the product manager to align to features and outcomes.
• Participate in sprint planning and own the product backlog for a low-medium complexity product being developed by the team on behalf of the line of business they represent.
• Perform typical product owner duties on lower complexity initiatives, collaborate with a senior product owner on higher complexity initiatives in support of the design, development, and delivery of their product.
• Success in this role is measured in terms of maximizing ROI and customer satisfaction.
• Develop product recommendations based on customer feedback, User experience (UX) interpretation of customer feedback, commercial/technical/legal assessments, and leveraging their own domain of experience.
• Ensure the right product is built, creating user/customer value while meeting the needs of the LoB stakeholders for a product.
• Understand and represent/convey the vision to the scrum team.
• Understand the strategy and product roadmap to ensure product backlog prioritization is in alignment with the roadmap timing of customer-facing features/functionality.
• Support the creation of the strategy/roadmap that contributes to the product's revenue and profitability targets.
• Assist the development of business cases.
• Identify product opportunities and challenges and recommend expanding product offerings to ensure competitive positioning.
• Refine and prioritize the product backlog, including non-functional requirements, on a regular basis in collaboration with the team such that it mitigates operational/technical/financial risk, accelerates team learning, achieves expected outcomes, and optimizes the value of the work performed.
• Prepare and maintain the overall success of sprint planning for a product.
• Ensure in advance that there are enough ready User Stories in the product backlog at all times and that the Product backlog is visible and transparent.
• Ensure User stories are well-formed; meet the “definition of ready”, detailed acceptance criteria, clear to all, etc.

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong time management and organization skills, Advanced problem solving ability, strong communication and stakeholder management.
• 5 to 9 years of product management or agile development experience, two of which are in relevant product/service domain.
• Business experience, preferably within the financial industry and relevant line of business.
• Experience with the agile process.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Product Ownership (CSPO) experience.
• Financial industry experience.
• Technical solutioning.

Soft Skills Required:

• Communication, presentation skills, conflict resolution/problem solving.

Education:

• Undergraduate Degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.

Finance professional is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.