Senior Product Owner

Onico Solutions; Richmond Hill; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Product Owner to lead Agile teams and set strategic product visions. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders, managing product backlogs, and guiding multidisciplinary teams. This is a contract opportunity with a focus on delivering exceptional quality products timely.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of industry experience as a Product Owner or similar role.
• Understanding of Agile principles and experience with Scrum.
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategic product vision for an enterprise product platform.
• Lead an Agile ‘scrum of scrums’ team to define the product backlog.
• Collaborate with product managers and teams to improve the product.

Skills

Agile product ownership principles

Analytical thinking

Excellent verbal and written communication

Effective decision making

Negotiation

Influencing stakeholders

Education

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Job description

The Senior Product Owner will advocate for the users’ needs and will address their pain points, balancing the business requirements whilst monitoring market trends and the competitive landscape. This experienced professional has a track record of leading multiple Agile teams to ship products that are high in business value, on-time, measurable and are of exceptional quality.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategic product vision for an enterprise wide product platform through company-wide stakeholder engagement
• Create alignment with the product vision across the various contributing teams
• Lead an Agile ‘scrum of scrums’ team and align multiple product owners to define the consolidated product backlog
• Determine the best delivery approach for quicker speed to market and improve the process on a continuous basis
• Collaborate with product managers, design, technology and operations to co-create solutions that continuously improve the product and generate business value
• Owns, prioritize, and maintains the product backlog as well as create user stories and their acceptance criteria
• Build platform roadmaps for initiatives and manage competing priorities, adjust for risk, and prioritize product backlog
• Lead ideation sessions, workshops, and requirements gathering engagements
• Guide and inspire multidisciplinary agile teams from ideation to execution
• Coach other Product Owners and be a change advocate within the organization
• Work closely with change management on Agile releases, providing input into training content, approach and schedule
• Maintain product ownership processes in line with best practice and introduce useful tools and practices

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of industry experience as a Product Owner/Product Manager/Agile/ Digital Transformation
• Understanding of Agile product ownership principles with Scrum is expected
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience is a plus
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) – an asset
• Thrives in an Agile, lean and fast-paced environment
• Ability to influence stakeholders on product ownership
• Analytical thinking in a sometimes ambiguous ecosystem
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Effective decision making, negotiation and influencing
• Ability to multi-task in a deadline driven environment
• Continuously learning and experimenting

This is a minimum 6 month contract opportunity (work from home) located in Toronto, ON.