Digital Product Manager

Insight Global; Toronto; On-site; CAD 199,752,000 - 223,502,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Digital Product Owner for a Big 5 banking client. This role focuses on executing and delivering on an established roadmap for a digital business banking product, ensuring successful partner and technology integration with the platform.

The role is 20% strategic roadmap development and requirement gathering, and 80% agile delivery. You will lead agile teams through the development lifecycle and ensure timely delivery of high-value features.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years in digital product ownership.
• Experience delivering digital applications in financial services.
• Proven cross-functional team delivery in small groups.
• Strong ability to translate tech language to business language.
• Experience with Confluence and JIRA.
• Understanding of systems architecture.

Responsibilities

• Drive roadmap execution and deliver features aligned with objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify requirements and report progress.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog for the development team.
• Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Lead agile ceremonies and remove blockers.
• Monitor sprint progress and delivery metrics.
• Collect user feedback to refine backlog.
• Identify delivery risks and mitigate them.
• Support the development team to foster collaboration.

Skills

Digital product ownership

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder collaboration

User story development

Backlog management

Team leadership

Requirements gathering

Tools

Confluence

JIRA

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Digital Product Owner for a Big 5 banking client. This role focuses on executing and delivering on an established roadmap for a digital business banking product, ensuring successful partner and technology integration with the platform. This role will be 20% strategic roadmap development and requirement gathering, and 80% agile delivery. You will lead agile teams through the development lifecycle and ensure timely delivery of high-value features.

Key Responsibilities

• Roadmap Execution: Drive delivery of features and enhancements according to the established roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with business stakeholders to clarify requirements and provide updates on delivery progress.
• Product Backlog Ownership: Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring the development team focuses on the most impactful items.
• User Story Development: Write and refine user stories and acceptance criteria for clarity and completeness.
• Agile Ceremony Leadership: Actively participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews to guide the team and remove impediments.
• Quality Assurance: Validate completed work against acceptance criteria and approve deliverables that meet quality standards.
• Performance Monitoring: Track sprint progress and delivery metrics, reporting on outcomes and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Continuous Feedback Loop: Collect input from users and stakeholders to inform backlog refinement and future iterations.
• Risk Mitigation: Identify delivery risks early and implement solutions to keep development on track.
• Team Support: Provide leadership and support to the development team, fostering collaboration and resolving blockers.

Must-Haves:

• 3-5+ years of experience in digital product ownership
• Experience working on digital applications
• Experience within financial institutions/bank
• Proven track record of delivering value with small, cross‑functional teams
• Experience leading an agile team & strong understanding of agile methodologies
• Ability to write clear, structured user stories in an agile environment
• Confluence and JIRA
• Understanding of technical requirements for digital products
• Ability to translate technical language into clear business language (and vice versa)
• Understanding of systems architecture
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong ownership of product outcomes

Plusses:

• Business banking experience
• Previous Business Analyst (BA) experience
• Regulatory project experience
• AML/KYC experience Credit card/lending product experience

Vacancy: This posting is for a currently vacant role, and the successful candidate will be hired into an existing open position.

Pay Rate: $70-78/hr

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