Product Owner

What you'll do:

As Product Owner your focus will be to help build on this foundation by delivering value to our customers via innovative registry solutions products and services supporting land-related solutions in the public interest. 

Reporting to the Product Team Manager and as an integral part of the product management team, you will be responsible for ensuring that communication and processes are flowing smoothly within the development team and that client needs are at the center as you help build the product roadmap. Your excellent communication skills will enable you to thrive at identifying user needs, gathering feature requests, coordinating sprints and managing releases within a cross-functional team.

Responsibilities include: 

• Lead a collaborative needs gathering process with customers to elicit and document business, functional and non-functional requirements. 
• Author high quality user stories and acceptance criteria and work with others such as Architects, UX professionals and other product team members to do the same.
• Own and maintain the product backlog by building, maintaining and prioritizing the team backlog of user stories, defects and enablers with input from Product Managers,Architectsand other stakeholders.
• Review, reprioritize and communicate story details to facilitate effective sprint planning and management of dependencies between stories and teams.
• Track and communicate progress on all requirements associated with releases.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager to help plan, prioritize and scope the product roadmap.
• Provide ongoing guidance and support for scrum ceremonies and offer key inputs based on the performance of previous sprints and challenges experienced.
• Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to facilitate team demos.
• Actively participate, support, and continually improve each release through all release activities including sell off, acceptance testing and all associated formal testing.
• Lead the resolution of key customer and stakeholder concerns and escalations.
• Ensure that post operations activities and action items are completed including final formal test/operations, smoke testing, etc.
• Work with the Technical Lead to accept development user stories as complete based on the definition of done.
• Work closely with the Release Manager and Operations to ensure release notes are created, required training is performed, and communications are supported.

We encourage you to apply if you have:

Education and Experience:

• A technical or business degree in a related field with 4-5 years of experience delivering products leveraging geospatial technology
• Experience with SaaS, regulated environments, agile development, and managing multiple stakeholders would be ideal
• Experience with geomatics, surveying, land developmentor legal conveyancing processes would be an asset
• Demonstrated ability to effectively translate business requirements into technical/functional requirements and launching new features into production
• Extensive understanding of the development cycle, agile frameworks, and how to manage a development sprint
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to adapt to multiple stakeholders and clients

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present ideas in user-friendly language
• A self-starter with the ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Strong knowledge of Jira and Confluence 
• Experience delivering information technology solutions bridging customer segments, including geospatial services an asset
• Understanding of British Columbia’s real property, survey and/or land development sectors and systems an asset
• Knowledge of business and systems deployments in the public sector would be an asset.