Manage the Product Ownership Function, ensuring product delivery aligns with strategy, while fostering relationships with stakeholders and leading the team effectively.
Key Responsibilities
Product Delivery
- Be accountable for the success of the Product Ownership Function within the technology organization
- Ensure a steady flow of high-quality user stories to feed the SCRUM teams.
- Be accountable for product delivery in line with the strategic roadmap and tactical initiatives on committed delivery dates.
- Identify and solve dependencies within and beyond your product area to ensure efficient delivery.
Stakeholder Management
- Represent the business for the product area, fostering strong relationships with key global stakeholders to ensure that their views and requirements are captured in the product backlogs.
- Act as the ambassador for your product area, showcasing the key functionalities, driving product adoption, and assuring operational excellence together with IT peers.
- Manage relationships outside the product area efficiently to ensure that the product teams can work autonomously.
Backlog Management
- Drive the evolution of the product area backlogs in collaboration with the product managers.
- Coach the product owners to ensure that the product teams are delivering the right enhancements at the right time to drive consumer and business value.
- Influence backlog priorities.
People Management
- Lead the Product Ownership team. Ensure compliance with the staffing and contractor budgets, following the appropriate capitalization procedures.
- Build the appropriate structure and framework to be able to manage the team effectively, identify and develop the future talents and create realistic succession scenarios for key positions.
- Ensure appropriate leadership skills are present at every level by creating a motivational and supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained, and provided with career opportunities through development.
- Continuously monitor and evaluate team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of data and team feedback and make appropriate changes to meet business needs.
- Provide team members with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and Purpl objectives.
- Regularly present the Product Ownership framework and practice to key stakeholders and ensure alignment to then effectively guide the team to produce high-quality output.
Requirements
Education & Experience
- 5+ years’ experience in financial services, managerial experience
- A technical or business degree
- Professional Scrum Product Owner certification, or equivalent, preferred
- AWS Cloud Practitioner certification preferred
- Experience working with stakeholders at various organizational levels
Soft Skills
- Strategic mindset and ability to prioritize and delegate high numbers of tasks with varying workload and importance
- Ability to handle ambiguity and untangle complex situations into actionable activities
- High resilience to change
- Proactive approach to solving problems, and willingness to brainstorm with key players to determine the best solution
- Very strong leadership skills
Hard Skills
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry
- Expert knowledge of Agile working methods (e.g., Scrum/Kanban)
- Comfortable working with enterprise-level platforms and technologies
- In-depth understanding of IT products and capabilities
- Fluent in English and French
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Fairstone Bank Montréal, Québec, CAN Office
630 Boulevard René-Lévesque, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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