New Value Solutions, a national IT consulting company, is seeking a Product Owner to support the discovery, planning, prioritization, and delivery of digital products with cross-divisional impact.
The Product Owner will focus on translating strategic direction and user needs into actionable product roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, user stories, and sprint-ready requirements. The successful candidate will work closely with Product Leadership, Business Leads, Scrum Masters, Development teams, Business SMEs, and CX/UX Research and Design teams to ensure products deliver meaningful business and user outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Conduct product discovery activities, including current-state analysis, user research, problem definition, and identification of user needs.
- Apply strategic thinking to align product initiatives with broader organizational priorities and desired business outcomes.
- Collaborate with CX/UX Research and Design teams to gather user insights and translate findings into actionable product requirements.
- Partner with Product Leadership and business stakeholders to help shape product strategy and support business case development.
- Create, maintain, and communicate product roadmaps and release plans aligned with strategic goals.
- Define, prioritize, and continuously manage the product backlog based on user needs, business value, technical feasibility, and delivery capacity.
- Write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, sprint goals, and supporting product documentation.
- Work with Scrum Masters and Development teams to ensure the backlog is well-groomed, understood, and ready for upcoming sprints.
- Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
- Understand development team capacity and velocity and use this information to help guide sprint commitments and product prioritization.
- Collaborate with Business Leads and SMEs to ensure delivered products integrate effectively with operational processes and provide measurable business value.
- Work with CX/UX teams to support design fidelity, usability, and accessibility throughout delivery.
- Monitor product progress throughout the delivery lifecycle and validate completed features against business and user outcomes.
- Identify and help resolve impediments that may affect team progress or product delivery.
- Provide regular updates to stakeholders and senior leadership regarding product priorities, progress, risks, issues, and outcomes.
- Build strong relationships across business, design, technology, and leadership teams through continuous and effective communication.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of product management, Agile delivery, technology, and team collaboration practices.
Requirements
- University degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
- 3+ years of experience working as a Business Analyst and/or Product Owner.
- Minimum 2 years of direct hands-on experience working within Agile delivery environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with product backlog management, prioritization, user story development, acceptance criteria, and sprint planning.
- Experience conducting user research, discovery activities, current-state analysis, and problem definition.
- Ability to translate user needs and business objectives into actionable product requirements and delivery priorities.
- Experience developing and maintaining product roadmaps and release plans.
- Strong understanding of Agile and Scrum practices, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across business, product, design, UX, engineering, and technical delivery teams.
- Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, including experience communicating with senior leadership.
- Product Owner or Agile certification such as CSPO, PSPO, SAFe Product Manager/Product Owner, PMI-ACP, IEEE Computer Society Scrum Product Owner Certification, or similar is preferred.
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If you have the necessary expertise and are able to work in Canada, please submit your resume. While we thank all candidates in advance for their application, only those shortlisted will be contacted.
