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About the Role

The Product Owner serves as the main link between Business Units and Information Technology, ensuring technology solutions align with business objectives. This role involves identifying business needs, translating them into IT solutions, and managing projects throughout their lifecycle, supporting both IT and operational teams.

Responsibilities

• Define Product Vision and Strategy
• Work with the business to define the product vision and roadmap
• Drive business process improvements to align product with business strategy
• Ensure the development team understands the product vision and roadmap
• Build a strong partnership with the business to understand strategic plans, operational needs, and upcoming initiatives
• Facilitate early-stage project scoping, including business objectives, requirements, and high-level cost/benefit considerations
• Manage stakeholders and prioritize initiatives
• Create project plans and charters, and provide project updates to stakeholders and senior leaders
• Act as the primary liaison between customers, stakeholders, and the development team
• Create, refine, and prioritize product initiative items (user stories)
• Clarify and specify business stakeholder requirements
• Track and communicate project progress, risks, and impacts to stakeholders
• Define requirements and acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with business and business analysts to define and document business requirements
• Provide acceptance criteria with business input
• Clearly define functional and business rules
• Challenge assumptions and business processes to understand exceptions
• Support the development team in understanding project deliverables
• Facilitate Scrum meetings, accept or reject work
• Lead and manage projects and business-driven initiatives to completion
• Facilitate daily standups and sprint planning
• Help the development team estimate and establish sprint goals
• Review completed features to ensure business requirements are met
• Support user acceptance testing (UAT)

Requirements

• Excellent interpersonal skills, oral and written business communications
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong sense of business understanding and urgency
• Experience in support and ability to operate in Agile / Scrum methodology
• Stakeholder management experience
• Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and prioritize multiple projects to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in defining product vision and managing product roadmap
• Successful track record of delivering high value IT products to the business
• Able to demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience in serving as a subject matter expert for applications
• Experience in leading and managing projects until completion

Skills

• Product Vision
• Product Strategy
• Roadmap Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Stakeholder Management
• Project Management
• Agile/Scrum Methodology
• Requirements Definition
• Acceptance Criteria Definition
• User Story Creation
• Risk Management
• Communication
• Problem-Solving
• Analytical Skills
• Subject Matter Expertise
• Team Facilitation

Experience Level

• 7+ years of experience as a Product Owner

Salary/Compensations

• $90,000–$115,000 annually

Benefits

• Comprehensive Employee Benefit Package after 3 months
• Profit Sharing
• Employee Discounts & Partner Discount Programs
• Opportunities for growth
• Continuous, quality education and training on products and sales techniques

About the Company

• Leon’s is a financially stable, well-respected, truly Canadian company with opportunities for growth from coast to coast.

Equal Opportunity

• We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences. Accommodation is available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment process. Candidates with accommodation needs, can email their accommodation requests to recruitment@leons.ca.