Job Description

Job Title: Product Owner

Location: Toronto Canada (Hybrid Min 3 days in a week)

Onsite/Hybrid from day 1 Toronto, ON M5A 0L6, Canada

Note: Must have worked on customer facing products, particularly focused on customer centric application

Job Description:

Roles & Responsibilities

• Vision and roadmap creation for client organizations
• Understands Product Discovery
• Facilitate product ideation/discovery phase. Confidence with techniques such as
  • Persona development
  • UX Design Thinking
  • Paper (whiteboard) Prototyping
  • Wireframes
  • Story Mapping
• Work with development teams to rapidly develop product increments, potentially launching them into minimally viable products
• Ability to facilitate teams in the organization on general agile disciplines and/or product design
• Provide training sessions to Product groups to mentor individuals to become good Product Managers/Owners
• Provides UX/UI Oversight to the design teams. Steer design sprints
• Business Value delivery to the organizations through holistic prioritization of functional and nonfunctional requirements
• Define product vision, and growth opportunities with the team.
• Create a roadmap balancing business value, vision and technical requirements.
• Define and create clear MVP products with your product team.
• Lead sessions around epic sizing, refinements or other ways to help prioritize and create a high standard of output.
• Ensure clear and timely communication with all stakeholders.
• Collaborate with internal and external contacts to analyse needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals.
• Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to create and maintain product backlog according to business value.
• Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities.
• Enable the team to have focussed and productive sprints, for example by having prepared and prioritized tasks ready to be picked up and working with clear sprint goals.

Key Skills

• Hands on experience in user story writing and elicitation techniques
• Knowledge and concepts of Story Mapping, Empathy Mapping
• Knowledge and concepts of INVEST, DEEP, DoD, DoR
• Knowledge and concepts of Kano Model, MoSCoW, WSJF, Cost of Delay
• Knowledge and concepts of Release Planning, Burndown Charts, Burn Up Charts
• Knowledge and concepts on ROI, Business Value

Minimum Qualification

• Master's degree in business and/or technical sciences.
• At least 3 years experience with product and/or project management
• Experience working with / and managing Agile / Scrum projects
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Excellent at building relationships to achieve success for your market
• Ready to travel (Mandatory)
• Product Management Certification (Preferred)

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