Product Owner

Product Owner

Position: 6 month contract with strong chance of extension based on performance and budget

Client: Big Five Bank

Location: Hybrid (1-2 days a week) Toronto, Downtown Core

What you'll be doing:

Salesforce Product Delivery & Enablement team, responsible to deliver enhancements to optimize productivity and growth, for a high profile project. As a Product Owner you'll support end-to-end project implementation and act as a subject matter. You'll ideate and collaborate with a diverse team to create and build flexible, innovative solutions that deliver a best-in-class client experience.

Who you are:

• Collaborate with Product Managers to establish a product release vision
• Lead your features through to completion, managing discovery and changes along the way
• Create, maintain, and continuously prioritize product and/or release backlogs, and conduct backlog refinement sessions with respective Scrum team
• Ensure product backlog themes are addressed in the release backlog according to the priority order
• Work with peer Product Owners regarding cross-team dependencies and appropriate scheduling and prioritization of work
• Participate in all relevant sprint meetings, including daily meetings, sprint planning, review, and retrospective sessions, as well as lead backlog refinement sessions
• Coordinate with other teams (User Experience, Quality Assurance, Customer Support, etc.) in regard to your feature set
• Communicate with internal departments to understand and explain functional requirements
• Communicate with external customers on topics such as requirements gathering, product feedback, and production-related issues

How You'll Succeed:

Create and maintain a prioritized Product Backlog

Work closely with business partners to gather complex business requirements. Working with Stakeholders to develop a product vision that satisfies their requirements, and define delivery priority taking into consideration strategic alignment, scope and complexity.

Drive user stories & product requirement creation – Support product team in the development of product feature and user stories in a collaborative fashion with business system analysts, UX design, technology teams, lines of business and various members of the product team.

Work with and drive alignment with stakeholders – Assist product team in ensuring that we are delivering the right initiatives at the right time and keeping our stakeholders engaged throughout the delivery life-cycle. Understand and support the team in managing competing needs & priorities.

Identify & document key processes and procedures – Working closely with the product team and key stakeholders, serve as process subject matter expert for the assigned product, projects and/or initiatives.

Leading and Mentoring – Support end-to-end project implementation as a subject matter expert and provide guidance to a diverse team of technology and project professionals. Maintain a collaborative work environment and support team members to resolve organizational, operational, and process problems.

Requirements

7+ years of experience as a Product Owner building multifaceted/hybrid enterprise solutions.

Practical experience with SaaS or ERP solutions and data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.

Worked on 2-3 Salesforce projects (FSC or Sales Cloud)

Ability to create business cases and roadmaps that clearly demonstrate the value of proposed solutions.

Exceptional communication skills with experience presenting to C-suite stakeholders and leading cross-functional teams to promote adoption

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

Experience working with Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum

Proven experience working on cross-product platforms

Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes

Familiarity with Agile project management tools, such as JIRA

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in the areas of Information Science, Computer Science, or related disciplines

Nice to have:

Direct experience within Capital Markets, Corporate Banking, or the broader Finance sector.

Apex pay scales are determined by role, experience, skill set, and location. For this new position, the estimated hourly range is provided below as a guideline; however, total compensation may vary based on individual circumstances.

• Role Type: Current opening
• Location: Ontario
• Hourly Range: $65-$70.00