#4492 Product Owner

Employment Term: Full-time
Location: Toronto , ON

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Our client, one of Canada's leading companies, is hiring a Product Owner in Toronto, ON! In this role, you will be responsible for overall project management and planning coordination with Scrum Master and Delivery Lead.

Note: This is a remote role.

Perks You'll Love
- Join one of Canada's leading companies
- Tackle new development projects
- Enjoy top career & development opportunities

What You'll Be Doing
- Overall Project Management and Planning coordination with Scrum master and Delivery Lead
- Track product performance metrics, analyzes user data, and uses insights to inform future product decisions.
- Product owners' main responsibility is to manage the product backlog and oversee a product's development stages. They take part in every step, from planning, refinement, review, to sprint.
- Create and Document User stories, derive requirements from Operations and SME
- Lead scope and requirements gathering from all stakeholders, functional groups (Dev, QA etc. ). Collaborate discussions across all disciplines
- Lead/Support Product grooming sessions, provide support to technology team
- Anticipating Client needs acting as their primary liaison
- Competitor analysis, analyzing how we compare with the competition, making product recommendations to ensure our product is competitive
- Learning customer and market needs
- Understanding of software development methodologies (Agile), principles and practices
- Functional expertise in several areas of PB ( IE. Payments, Carrier integration etc.)
- Create Product Vision and contribute to Roadmap Planning (2-3 yr roadmap) and feature prioritization, developer business cases for features
- Evaluate and identify partnership opportunities (i.e. Heradl API)
- Good interpersonal skills and coordinate & work with various customers from technology & business teams.
- Open to assist junior members if required & provide support to QA and UAT test team.
- Flexible to support Prod and work on critical issues from production.
- Must take responsibility and ownership of processes within the team and mentor the team members

Skills & Experience You're Bringing
- 8 years min. working as a product manager or as a Sr Business Analyst
- Bachelor's Degree in Business or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years Experience working in the Insurance Industry with Insurtech experience preferred
- Previously developed Insurtech platforms

Canadian Work Authorization
All applicants MUST be authorized to work in Canada. Any applicants not meeting this criteria will not be notified and will not be considered eligible for the position.