Product Owner Data & Analytics Practice

British Columbia Lottery Corporation; Kamloops, Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 88,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) seeks a Product Owner to lead an internal Agile product team. You will define the mission, translate business needs into product requirements, and align with stakeholders across multiple pods to deliver value.

You will shepherd the backlog, participate in agile ceremonies, and drive cross-functional workshops to clear blockers and deliver outcomes on time. This is a temporary full-time role based in BC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or IT Management is required.
• 4–6 years of relevant leadership experience in product teams.
• Experience translating ambiguous situations into deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Defines and manages the product backlog with stakeholder input.
• Leads prioritization, planning, and breakdown of work for the team.
• Identifies impediments and facilitates agile ceremonies.
• Evaluates outputs and ensures alignment with stakeholders.
• Collaborates with product owners and cross-functional teams.
• Manages risks and communicates progress to leadership.

Skills

Backlog management

Prioritization

Agile ceremonies

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk identification

Technical guidance

Documentation

Cross-team dependency planning

Leading projects

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or IT Management

4–6 years of relevant experience

Leadership experience

Tools

None

Job description

BCLC exists to generate win-wins for the greater good.

For our people, our players, our communities, our industry, and our planet.

Lottery | Casino | Sports

Being a social purpose company, we are not only able to better align our business decisions with our purpose, but more importantly, we are committing to doing our part in creating a better world.
We bring our purpose to life by ensuring all our actions, behaviours and decisions create benefits for communities and the planet.
Motivated and guided by our social purpose, everything we do must benefit the greater good. And we encourage our employees, partners, players, industry and communities to engage with us on this ambition.

We want you to be where you feel you can do your best work. Most of our jobs can be done remotely providing you reside in BC.

For those who prefer working in a community with others, we have two beautiful offices in convenient locations:

74 Seymour Street W, Kamloops

This is a Temporary < 12 Months, Full Time opportunity with an approximate duration of 8 months

Expected Salary Range: $87,530.00 - $109,414.00 - $136,768.00

Our typical hiring range will be +/- 5% of the midpoint shown above

Factors influencing this decision include qualifications and market conditions for the role

The Company

For nearly four decades, BCLC has delivered exceptional gambling entertainment for British Columbians. To fulfill our social purpose we have a vision to revolutionize gambling entertainment through engaging experiences that build and benefit communities. We operate national and provincial lotteries in partnership with 3500 retail partners, provide the games, technology & oversight to 37 brick & mortar casinos, and operate a safe secure and 100% legal online gambling presence PlayNow.com. In our recently completed fiscal year, BCLC generated a record $1.4 billion in net income to the Province of B.C. to support First Nations, host local governments, health care, education and community programs across the province.

Job Summary:

The Product Owner works under the guidance of their manager to lead the mission of the internal Agile product team. This role is responsible for defining the mission of the team and bringing the vision to the product team. The Product Owner collaborates with key stakeholders to deliver product requirements and maintain close interaction with the Agile product teams, key business stakeholders, enterprise enablement teams and supporting capability pods to ensure alignment.

Key Accountabilities:

• (With guidance from their leader,) Defines and manages the product backlog collaborating with stakeholder groups across the organization to understand the business strategy and determine priorities.
• Leads the prioritization, planning, and breakdown of the product teamwork in collaboration with the product team.
• Works within an agile framework to identify operational inefficiencies and blockers for the teams. Participates in the product team's agile ceremonies such as planning sessions, stand-ups, retrospectives, and sprint review meetings.
• Evaluates the outputs on behalf of stakeholders, including user acceptance of final product.
• Engages specialists across the organization, or contractors, in addition to product team members.
• Facilitates cross-functional workshops to drive decisions and consensus across functional areas.
• (With guidance from their leader,) negotiates with leaders and other stakeholders to remove team impediments, issues, and blockers, including escalating to the appropriate levels within the organization when they cannot be resolved at the team level.
• Collaborates with other product owners on the prioritization of cross-team dependencies and deliverables required by other product teams.
• Reports to stakeholders on the progress and status of product team deliverables. Proactively identifies risks and opportunities and makes recommendations for resolution.
• Identifies risks related to their specific area and works with stakeholders and leadership as needed to develop and implement risk mitigation strategies and reports on risks.

Minimum Required Qualifications

Education and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology Management or a related discipline;
• 4 to 6 years of relevant experience as well as experience in a leadership capacity;
• An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered.

Technical Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to build strong and trusting relationships with managers, employees and peers;
• Able to interpret andtranslate ambiguous situations into structured and clearly defined deliverables;
• Excellent business and technical acumen;
• Excellenttime management,organizational and multi-tasking skillsto manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups or activities;
• Proven ability to lead technical projects and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, providing technical guidance;
• Strong technicalwriting skills, and able to write reports and document procedures;
• Strongcommunication and presentation skills, with an ability to communicate and address issues at all levels of the organization and with external stakeholders;
• Understanding of Agile methodology or experience working with a cross-functional team environment;
• Understanding of B.C. gaming industry would be an asset.

What’s in it for you

Robust wellness programs to enhance your physical, mental, social, financial and career well being

We pride ourselves on our flexible working model which supports work-life integration and our 37.5 hour work week

Our Play It Forward program provides volunteer hours for our people each year

We hire people for skills, capabilities and potential, not just education and experience.

We value Respect, Integrity and Community, and we provide an inclusive environment where everyone can feel like they belong .

Our social purpose is much more than returning 100% of net income to the province in the form of healthcare & education programs, and community gaming grants. Check it out !

Did you know BCLC is an industry leader in player health and safe & responsible gambling? Find out more !

If you require accommodation so you can be at your best in the interview, please let us know: [e-mail] .

All candidates must be at least 19 years of age and legally eligible to work in Canada