About the Role
The Product Owner for Crew OpsMOD is responsible for representing business needs and ensuring the accurate, compliant, and reliable delivery of crew pay functionality within the Crew Pay environment. This role combines strong operational expertise with product ownership accountability, ensuring delivered capabilities align with business priorities, contractual obligations, and regulatory requirements while delivering measurable value.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage the product backlog for Crew Pay OpsMOD-related capabilities
- Define, prioritize, and continuously refine business requirements based on operational needs
- Make informed decisions on scope, trade-offs, and priorities to maximize business value
- Partner with leadership to support product vision and roadmap development
- Act as the primary liaison between operations, business stakeholders, and delivery teams
- Engage stakeholders across Crew Scheduling, Tracking, Planning, HR, and IFS management functions
- Balance competing priorities to ensure timelines are met
- Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements and user stories
- Define acceptance criteria and ensure solutions meet business expectations
- Support testing strategy including functional, regression, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
- Interpret and apply collective agreement rules (CUPE)
- Ensure accurate configuration of pay rules within the crew pay system
- Validate pay outcomes across standard and complex scenarios
- Identify, assess, and resolve pay discrepancies
Requirements
- Significant experience in crew scheduling, planning, tracking, or pay environments (typically 3+ years preferred)
- Strong analytical skills with ability to validate complex pay scenarios
- Ability to translate business needs into structured requirements
- Experience with crew systems (IFS, Jeppesen, Navblue,) is an asset
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Product ownership mindset with accountability for outcomes
- Strong collaboration and teamwork across business and technology teams
- Sound judgment and decision-making
- High attention to detail with a focus on quality and accuracy
- Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment
- Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest at the time any offer of employment is made and are responsible for obtaining any required work permits, visas, or other authorizations necessary for employment.
- Prior to their start date, candidates will also need to provide proof of their eligibility to work in the country of interest.
Skills
- Crew scheduling
- Crew planning
- Crew tracking
- Crew pay
- Analytical skills
- Product ownership
- Collaboration
- Teamwork
- Judgment
- Decision-making
- Attention to detail
- Punctuality
- Dependability
Experience Level
- 3+ years preferred
About the Company
- Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America.
- Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.
Equal Opportunity
- Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.
- As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.
