Product Owner

Insight Global; Toronto; On-site; CAD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global seeks an experienced Product Owner to lead digital product initiatives for a leading Canadian financial institution, focusing on the home financing journey transformation and improving the homebuying and lending experience.

You will own complex initiatives, translate strategy into product roadmaps, and deliver actionable work for Scrum teams, partnering with business, technology, and executives to move initiatives from strategy to value.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Product Management or Product Ownership, with digital products or transformation focus.
• Experience in banking or financial services.
• Strong knowledge of home financing lifecycle: origination, adjudication, fulfillment, servicing.
• Experience creating and maintaining product roadmaps.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum, user stories and backlogs.

Responsibilities

• Lead digital product strategy and roadmap for banking initiatives.
• Collaborate with business, technology, operations and executives.
• Translate strategic goals into executable work for Scrum teams.
• Drive benefit realization and measure outcomes.

Skills

Product ownership

Banking knowledge

Lending products

Roadmapping

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Business case

Education

Prosci Change Management Certification

PMP Certification

CFA designation

Tools

AWS

Job description

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Product Owner to provide digital product leadership for one of Canada’s leading financial institutions. This individual will play a key role in a major home financing journey transformation, helping deliver digital solutions that improve the homebuying and lending experience for customers while enhancing internal processes and workflows. The successful candidate will bring strong experience within banking and lending products, with an understanding of the end-to-end home financing lifecycle, including origination, adjudication, fulfillment, and servicing.

This role requires someone who can operate comfortably in an ambiguous and evolving environment, take ownership of complex initiatives, and translate strategic objectives into clear product roadmaps and executable work for Scrum teams.

A key focus of the role will be supporting the Digital Refinance initiative, as well as developing internal workflows related to a centralized funder model. The Product Owner will partner closely with business, technology, operations, and senior executive stakeholders to move initiatives from strategy through execution and benefit realization.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of Product Management or Product Ownership experience, ideally supporting complex digital products or transformation initiatives.
• Previous experience working within the banking or financial services industry.
• Strong hands‑on experience with lending products, with a particular focus on home financing, mortgages, refinancing, or related lending solutions.
• Strong knowledge of the end‑to‑end home financing lifecycle, including origination, adjudication, fulfillment, and servicing.
• Demonstrated experience creating, maintaining, and executing against product roadmaps.
• Experience working directly with Agile/Scrum development teams, including creating and managing user stories and product backlogs.
• Strong experience managing and influencing senior executive stakeholders across both business and technology functions.
• Experience developing business cases and supporting the measurement or realization of expected business benefits.
• Excellent communication and relationship‑management skills, with the ability to translate between business objectives and technical delivery teams.

Nice‑to‑Have Skills & Experience

• Experience working with AWS‑based workflows or cloud‑enabled product environments.
• Prosci Change Management Certification or experience applying structured change‑management methodologies.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Lending, banking, finance, or investment‑related professional accreditation, such as the CFA, or another relevant industry designation.

Compensation:

$70-$80/h

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.

Artificial intelligence tools are used to assist in screening and assessing applicants for this position.

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