Senior Product Owner to manage and oversee all aspects of agile feature teams for a new digital service. 

Job Type: Contract
Positions to fill: 1
Start Date: Jan 01, 2023
Job End Date: Mar 31, 2025
Pay Rate: Hourly: Negotiable
Job ID: 125411
Location: Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Vancouver, Victoria, Winnipeg
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Senior Product Owner to manage and oversee all aspects of agile feature teams for a new digital service. 

Initial contract will run until March 31st, 2023 with 2x 1 year option periods to renew.

Must Haves:
  • A minimum of 8 years of experience as a Product Owner
  • Experience managing complex digital transformation projects with multiple interdependencies including major business transformations, strategic communications and the oversight of system integrators.
  • Experience leading, using, and promoting the agile principles.
  • Experience delivering digital products or services and implementing channel shifts strategies to move users from traditional to digital delivey channels 
Nice to Have: 
  • Public Sector Experience 
  • Scrum/Agile certifications 

Deliverables:
 
  • As a Product Owner, for three interdependent Agile product teams, lead the delivery of a new product and/or iterations to an existing product to meet user needs and experience expectations.
  • Creates and manages product roadmaps, including identifying constraints, ensuring standards are being met, tracking progress, issues and managing risks. 
  • Designs and plans operational processes for running and maintaining of a product and/or service throughout their product life cycle.
  • Creates effective, prioritized product descriptions and delivery plans to meet user and stakeholder needs in a cost-effective way.
  • Interprets user research to make the correct product decisions, noting that users do not always know what they want.
  • Makes decisions with long-term enterprise impacts related to the outcomes, objectives and goals of programs products.
  • Manages the creation and monitoring of the budget as related to the building and maintaining of the products
  • Maintains currency of changes to user habits, preferences and behaviors across various digital platforms and their implications for successful delivery of government digital products.