Product Manager

Product Owner

• Experience working for medium to large-scale products.
• Experience working as a part of a larger Product Management team fostering alignment.
• Experience in understanding use cases and anticipating requirements. Experience with writing user stories (USs) and guiding teams to write effective user stories (USs).
• Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict.
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, and Lean / Agile methodologies.
• Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict.
• Effective and flexible communication, interpersonal, and mentoring skills.
• Ability to coach and support a team in serving leadership capacity for the Scrum / Kanban Team.
• Ability to adapt to constantly changing environment and needs.
• Ability to handle ambiguity.
• Expertise in Jira-Align, Jira and Confluence.

The Product Owner will work and collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure high levels of product quality and process effectiveness.

• Act as a bridge between Product Management and Engineering Agile Teams. Remove barriers between stakeholders and Teams. Help teams execute on a shared vision.
• Be the advocate of Customer / Product Management for the Engineering teams and be the advocate of Engineering teams for the Product Management as part of the Agile team.
• Demonstrate accountability for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Agile Team in alignment with the broader Product Management strategy and roadmap. Involve in day-to-day activities with the team.
• Manage the Team’s Team Backlog effectively, which includes and not limited to developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal and Sprint Goal for the sprint, creating and clearly communicating Team Backlog items for the Agile team, ordering Team Backlog items, and ensuring that the Team Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.
• Team Backlog Management is expected to be performed in collaboration with Product Managers, Architects, internal stakeholders, customer representatives and Agile Team to formulate, create and clearly communicate Team Backlog items. Anticipate their needs, have a conversation, and translate them into Team Backlog collaboratively.
• Effectively breakdown the product requirements into minimal marketable, demonstratable / testable backlog items by negotiating the acceptance criteria for features and user stories (USs) with the development team. Prioritize and order user stories (USs) and ensure work aligns with product management strategy.

 

Qualifications

• Act as a bridge between Product Management and Engineering Agile Teams. Remove barriers between stakeholders and Teams. Help teams execute on a shared vision.
• Be the advocate of Customer / Product Management for the Engineering teams and be the advocate of Engineering teams for the Product Management as part of the Agile team.
• Demonstrate accountability for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Agile Team in alignment with the broader Product Management strategy and roadmap. Involve in day-to-day activities with the team.
• Manage the Team’s Team Backlog effectively, which includes and not limited to developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal and Sprint Goal for the sprint, creating and clearly communicating Team Backlog items for the Agile team, ordering Team Backlog items, and ensuring that the Team Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.
• Team Backlog Management is expected to be performed in collaboration with Product Managers, Architects, internal stakeholders, customer representatives and Agile Team to formulate, create and clearly communicate Team Backlog items. Anticipate their needs, have a conversation, and translate them into Team Backlog collaboratively.
• Effectively breakdown the product requirements into minimal marketable, demonstratable / testable backlog items by negotiating the acceptance criteria for features and user stories (USs) with the development team. Prioritize and order user stories (USs) and ensure work aligns with product management strategy.
• Maintain a healthy Team Backlog that exhibits DEEP (Detailed appropriately, Estimated, Emergent, and Prioritized) Characteristics of. Anchor the practice of Definition of Ready.
• Represent the needs of many stakeholders including Product Management in the Team’s Team Backlog.
• Practice scrum events in both spirit and letter. Provide continuous feedback to the Agile team and accept / reject the deliverables from the Agile team in alignment with the acceptance criteria and Definition of Done. Participate in the team retrospectives.
• Help and guide the Agile Teams during the Sprint Review and Demo. Provide constructive feedback.
• Use engineering tools such as Jira-Align, Jira and Confluence to create, track and manage Team Backlog items.
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Client-provided location(s): Kanata, Canada

Job ID: o9sIxfwA

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-09T18:35:26