AI Product Owner

Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group (CC&L); Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group (CC&L) is hiring an AI Product Owner in Toronto to lead stakeholder engagement and manage the delivery pipeline in a regulated environment. You will drive prioritization, maintain clear specifications, and ensure quality while interacting with senior leaders. The role requires strong experience in product management, specification writing, and stakeholder accountability. The salary range is between $130,000 - $150,000 annually, plus performance bonuses.

Qualifications

• Product Owner or Senior Business Analyst experience with full delivery pipeline ownership.
• Proven ability to work directly with senior stakeholders and drive decisions.
• Exceptional writing skills to produce clear and testable requirements.
• Understanding of risk, controls, and stakeholder accountability in financial services.
• Ability to partner effectively with AI technical leads without being an engineer.
• High autonomy and judgment in turning ambiguous requests into structured work.
• Strong communication skills maintaining trusted stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Own stakeholder relationships and serve as the main contact for AI requests.
• Run intake and prioritization processes with the Technical Lead.
• Lead discovery sessions to define problems and set success criteria.
• Ensure every use case entering build has a complete and approved specification.
• Manage feedback from UAT and drive timely sign-offs.
• Maintain visibility on progress, dependencies, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Directly manage a future Business Analyst and ensure consistent quality.

Skills

Product Owner experience

Stakeholder engagement

Specification writing

Financial services experience

Technical fluency

High autonomy

Constructive assertiveness

Job description

Interested in joining one of Canada’s top-performing asset managers? We’re hiring an AI Product Owner in our AI Solutions engineering team. You are the engagement lead for affiliate and FG stakeholders into the solutions team, owning intake, prioritization, and the translation of business demand into signed‑off, build‑ready work. You protect engineering capacity by driving scope discipline, defining clear success measures, and ensuring the team builds the right things, safely and responsibly, in a regulated financial services environment. We operate on a hybrid model with three days a week in-office to facilitate team collaboration.

What You Will Do

• Own affiliate and FG stakeholder relationships, be the primary point of contact for AI requests, status, and decision‑making
• Run the intake and prioritization operating rhythm with the Technical Lead. Triage requests, maintain the pipeline, and make trade‑offs explicit (now / next / later)
• Lead discovery and use‑case shaping, facilitate sessions to define the problem, map workflows, identify constraints, and set measurable success criteria
• Own the specification “contract”, ensure every use case entering build has a complete, approved spec (inputs, outputs, acceptance criteria, risks/assumptions, and data access requirements)
• Own the feedback‑to‑scope loop through UAT, translate stakeholder feedback into precise spec changes, control scope creep, and drive timely sign‑off
• Maintain portfolio visibility, track progress, dependencies, blockers, satisfaction, and pipeline health; provide clear reporting to stakeholders and AI leadership
• Directly manage a future FG Business Analyst, set priorities, review specs, and ensure consistent quality and stakeholder experience across engagements

What You Bring

• Product Owner / Product Manager / Senior Business Analyst experience owning a delivery pipeline from discovery through release (not just requirements gathering)
• Proven ability to work directly with senior stakeholders (portfolio managers, investment leaders, executives), set expectations, drive decisions, and hold the line on scope
• Exceptional specification writing, produce clear, testable requirements and acceptance criteria that engineering can build from without repeated clarification
• Experience in financial services or another regulated environment, with an understanding of risk, controls, privacy, and stakeholder accountability
• Technical fluency, able to challenge assumptions, understand architectural implications, and partner effectively with AI technical leads (without needing to be an engineer)
• High autonomy and strong judgment, turn ambiguous requests into structured, prioritized work with clear outcomes and constraints
• Constructive assertiveness and strong written communication, protect scope and timelines while maintaining trusted relationships

The salary range for this position is $130,000 - $150,000. The salary range provided reflects the base salary range for this position as required by legislation. In addition, there is an annual performance bonus which contributes to the total compensation for this position. Further questions may be directed to the HR team during the interview process.

For a closer look at how you can build your career with us, we invite you to explore cclgroup.com.

CC&L Financial Group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or expression, disability, or age.

Your application will be reviewed by a member of the hiring team - AI is not used in the screening, assessment or selection of applications at this time.