Product Owner (Job Req #2025-077)

Ross Video; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Product Owner, where you'll play a crucial role in shaping innovative products for the broadcast industry. This exciting position involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to define product vision, manage backlogs, and ensure that user experience remains at the forefront of development. You'll leverage your expertise in Agile methodologies to drive product success and deliver exceptional value to customers. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make an impact in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience with 5+ product releases as product owner preferred.
• Understanding of Agile principles and practices is essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage product backlog and create user stories with the team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure product vision is met.

Skills

Agile principles

Backlog prioritization

User story development

Excellent communication skills

Collaboration

Detail-oriented

Education

Post-secondary degree or trade school diploma

Tools

Jira

Job description

Product Owner (Job Req #2025-077) Ottawa Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Req #2029 Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Why Work at Ross Video? We have a great group of people working together to create and deliver cutting edge products that look amazing and are easy to use. We go all out so that our customers can have the best possible experience and achieve quality results. If you've ever watched live television, news, sports, or entertainment, you've seen our products in use. All of the major Hollywood award shows, most professional sports teams, and many of the largest broadcasters in the world use Ross Video technology. If that resonates, and you’re someone with integrity, commitment, and a strong drive to deliver great products, we’d love to hear from you.

What the job is all about:

Responsible for execution of and/or participation in activities related to the product line, including but not limited to:

1. Collaboration:
   • Work with Product Management to ensure a deep understanding of the release goals/themes and product vision.
   • Define and monitor KPIs that indicate how the product investment is delivering value.
   • Develop domain knowledge and expertise.
   • Manage the product backlog, create and review user stories and acceptance criteria with the team, create epics and story maps, and capture feature requests and enhancements.
   • Provide feedback and suggestions to the Product Manager on their product roadmap, future release plans and product direction.
   • Work with subject matter experts to ensure a quality product.
2. Innovation, Design and Specification:
   • Promote use of experimentation to deliver innovative approaches to solving existing and emerging problems.
   • Gather UATs.
   • Create user experience artifacts to aid the team in keeping the user top of mind.
   • Work closely with User Experience Design team to create mockups and interaction designs for new features.
3. Stakeholder Management and Communication:
   • Maintain the priority of the items in the release backlog.
   • Regularly report on progress towards release goals to product stakeholders.
   • Explain and regularly communicate the rationale behind the priority of items in the product backlog.
   • Gather feedback from demos and reviews in collaboration with the product manager.

Who you are:

• Post-secondary degree or trade school diploma.
• Experience with 5+ product releases as product owner or 10+ product releases working as an Agile delivery team member is preferred.
• Understanding of Agile principles, practices and ceremonies.
• Experience with backlog prioritization, user story development.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Ability to work well with remote team members.
• Organized and very detail orientated.
• Proficient with Jira.

Bonus points if you have the following:

• Broadcast production experience is preferred.
• Software development experience is an asset.
• Experience working as a product owner in a technology company delivering solutions to the technology market.
• Able to work co-operatively with and across all company departments.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion: At Ross, we embrace diversity, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work. We are committed to building a team that includes a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Inclusivity drives innovation and creativity, and that’s something we’re passionate about at Ross!

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