Senior Product Coordinator

Okanagan College; Kelowna; On-site; CAD 48,216 - 55,104; Full time

Job summary

Okanagan College is seeking a Senior Product Coordinator, Digital Experience to drive priorities and evolve key digital products used by learners and staff. This ownership role translates complex needs into clear roadmaps and guides cross-functional teams from concept to implementation.

Reporting to the Associate Director, Digital Experience, you will manage the product lifecycle, backlog, and release success, ensuring accessibility, measurable outcomes, and alignment with institutional

Qualifications

• Four-year degree plus at least 4 years of hands-on experience in digital product ownership or related Agile delivery.
• Experience configuring and supporting enterprise digital platforms and leading discovery, user research, and UAT.
• Strong Agile fundamentals and ability to translate feedback into clear requirements.
• Familiar with UX, accessibility standards, and analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the digital experience vision to support learners and staff.
• Lead backlog management, sprint planning, and release coordination.
• Translate business and user needs into a clear, outcome-driven product roadmap.
• Collaborate with AI & Automations Development Team Lead to align priorities.
• Coordinate across technical, design, and operational teams to ship user-centered solutions.
• Utilize analytics and user feedback to validate priorities and optimize.
• Drive change management and adoption to ensure impact.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile methodologies

UX principles

Power BI/Excel analytics

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Four-year degree in Business Administration/CS/IS or related

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

When you join Okanagan College, you’re joining a team that’s transforming lives and communities.

Every course you create, every student you support and every connection you build, it all matters.

Be a part of a vibrant campus community, where the work you do every day truly makes a difference.

Desired Start Date: August 17, 2026

Appointment End Date: January 15, 2027

Salary range: $35.07 to $40.07

Classification: Support Services Coordinator II

Bargaining unit: Support

Type of appointment: Non-Regular Full-time

Schedule: Monday- Friday 8:00-4:30 (negotiable)

Closing date: August 3, 2026

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Shortlisted internal candidates must notify the current Support Staff Bargaining Chairperson and People Services if they want a Union Observer during interviews and final selection of candidates

Your Opportunity

The Senior Product Coordinator, Digital Experience drives the priorities and continuous evolution of key digital products that serve learners, employees, and the institution. This role identifies opportunities for improvement, builds the case for change, and takes ownership of product vision, roadmap development, backlog management, and prioritization. This isn't a support role — it's an ownership role, accountable for guiding initiatives from concept through to implementation and ensuring digital products deliver meaningful, measurable outcomes. Reporting to the Associate Director, Digital Experience, the Senior Product Coordinator sits at the intersection of business, technology, and user experience — translating complex organizational needs into clear roadmaps, aligning cross‑functional teams around shared priorities, and ensuring every product decision connects back to institutional objectives and real value for the people the College serves.

Functions and Duties

• Lead and evolve the digital experience vision for learners and staff — ensuring it directly supports Okanagan College's digital strategy and delivers measurable outcomes.
• Champion user‑centered thinking across every product decision, from discovery through delivery and continuous improvement.
• Leverage analytics, user feedback, and service insights to validate priorities, measure performance, and drive ongoing optimization.
• Ensure solutions are accessible, intuitive, and built around the real needs of the people who use them every day.
• Lead the product lifecycle from discovery through delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement, with accountability for user experience and business impact.
• Identify and prioritize initiatives across products and platforms, translating complex business and user needs into a clear, outcome‑driven roadmap.
• Develop forward‑looking plans for how systems, integrations, and platforms need to evolve — building a cohesive, scalable, and future‑ready digital environment.
• Lead the full product lifecycle: discovery, delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement — with accountability for both user experience and business impact.
• Work closely with the AI & Automations Development Team Lead to ensure product priorities and technical feasibility are always in sync.
• Lead backlog management, sprint planning, acceptance criteria, retrospectives, and release coordination to keep delivery consistent and efficient.
• Coordinate across technical, design, and operational teams to ship high‑quality, user‑centered solutions — balancing speed, quality, and value.
• Support change management and release readiness to ensure solutions land well, get adopted, and deliver their intended impact.
• Identify opportunities to automate workflows, simplify processes, and reduce friction across institutional digital services.
• Stay curious about emerging digital trends, tools, and capabilities — and bring relevant insights back into product planning.
• Explore how AI‑enabled services, automation, and modern platforms can meaningfully improve learner and staff experiences.
• Contribute to the evaluation of new technologies, platforms, and approaches that could advance the College's digital strategy.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships across academic, administrative, and technical teams — creating shared understanding and alignment on priorities.
• Communicate product vision, priorities, decisions, and outcomes clearly and consistently to stakeholders at all levels.
• Provide transparency into product direction and trade‑offs, enabling informed decision‑making across the organization.

Education and Experience

• A four‑year degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline — plus at least 4 years of hands‑on experience in digital product ownership, business transformation, business analysis, or technical project delivery in Agile environments. Or an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated experience configuring and supporting enterprise digital platforms, contributing to process improvement or automation initiatives, and leading discovery, user research, and UAT activities.
• Strong Agile fundamentals — sprint planning, backlog refinement, iterative delivery, and retrospectives.
• The ability to turn user feedback, analytics, and service insights into clear requirements, confident priorities, and well‑communicated product decisions.
• Experience with wireframes, prototypes, and user flows; a solid grasp of UX principles and accessibility standards; and comfort with analytics tools like Power BI or Excel.
• A natural communicator who can bridge technical and non‑technical audiences, and a sharp, organized thinker who stays calm when priorities compete.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), or a similar designation is considered an asset.

Our Values

• Students first: Creating meaningful life‑long educational opportunities of the highest quality for alumni, current, and future students is at the heart of everything we do.
• Community: We are one College. We enthusiastically embrace the opportunity to work with, learn from, and support everyone we encounter collaboratively and collegially.
• Respect: We welcome, embrace, and celebrate that which make us unique in creating an environment in which every individual is valued, affirming our commitment to human dignity for all.
• Courage: We are courageous in our actions in areas that contribute to positive change in our communities and beyond. We have the courage to be vulnerable. We are truthful, sincere, and act ethically with honesty and fairness.
• Relationships: We steward meaningful relationships built on a foundation of reciprocity. We are compassionate, empathic, and care for the holistic well‑being of students, employees, community members, and the land.
• Distinction: We choose activities in which we can achieve excellence and positively impact society.

Okanagan College is committed to increasing the equitable and inclusive participation of marginalized people in all aspects of college life. We welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, Black People, members of racialized groups/visible minorities, people with disabilities and people with diverse gender identities or expressions. People with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, [e-mail].