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Level: Intermediate/Senior

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Scheduling: Full-time (35 hours a week)

Salary: Starting $90K (CAD) annually

💭What is the opportunity?

We are looking for a talented Product Owner to join our team! The ideal candidate is always looking for ways to improve a product or service to make it better, faster, and more user-friendly. You are responsible for producing technology solutions from concept to delivery that satisfy customer needs in alignment with our overall strategy.

Candidates must be based in Toronto or willing to relocate. This is a hybrid opportunity.

🚀What will you do?

• Lead, inspire and support your cross-functional, agile team to deliver value
• Inspire the scrum team by painting the vision, plans, objectives, and progress
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into a workable backlog
• Prioritize and sequence the product backlog to provide the most value
• Understand technology trends to apply to software design
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency
• Drive Scrum ceremonies like planning, reviews, and refinement
• Create user stories and acceptance criteria
• Own and maintain the product backlog and the release plans
• Monitor team velocity and seek to continuously improve the product development process
• Participate in internal testing and demos to engage stakeholders to validate deliverables and drive product iteration toward a long-term vision
• Manage cross-product dependencies
• Serve as a product expert, product evangelist, and the voice of the customer
• Work cross-functionally to gather Responsibilities, and customer feedback, and communicate priorities
• Create mockups and prototypes to assist with the development
• Analyze metrics to understand customer and product performance
• Create and update design documents in confluence
• Create analytics to measure sprint success and identify improvement opportunities

💡What do you need to succeed?

• 5+ years of working experience as a Product Owner (or similar role)
• 3+ years of Agile-related delivery experience Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification and project management experience considered an asset
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications or experience operating in scaled agile delivery considered an asset
• Love to lead agile team(s)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to inspire the scrum team with company vision(s)
• Able to balance different projects & stakeholders (internal and external)
• Set priorities, goals, and enable the team to continuously deliver
• Good at understanding requirements, especially the tricky and technical ones to turn them into workable backlogs
• Love to and knows how to write user stories
• Understands acceptance criteria
• Experience working in the software industry – SaaS would be the best fit
• Business minded and has a good technical understanding (or the other way around)
• Love for customers and understanding their needs

🔋Nice-to-have

• Bilingual (French and English)
• Technical background (coding)
• Agile certifications
• Experience with Jira Software
• Experience working with children or in the education sector
• Able to commute to work in the downtown Toronto area

👀Why join our team?

• Join a highly anticipated multi-million project funded by the Government of Canada, and get ready to rub elbows with top-notch governmental heads and executive leaders across Canada, including the Minister of Official Languages.
• Drive innovation and push lasting technologies. Get ready to learn and geek out on cool new approaches as we rethink the learnability, efficiency, and usability factors of our platform. Let’s create the future together!
• Work for a meaningful cause of accessible education worldwide and take pride in making a significant impact while growing with our dynamic company and helping to shape the project from start to finish
• Move up the career ladder within the company and make your mark as the project progresses. We want you to reach for the stars and pursue your passions.
• Get ready to socialize and have some fun! We have bi-weekly social activities and monthly team-building outings and games. Let’s bond and create great memories!
• Trust and support are the name of the game. Own your work and push your ideas from inception to execution.
• Our office is an awesome space! With comfy couches, a creative workspace, a lakeside view, a gorgeous rooftop patio, and more – we have it all! You won’t want to leave!
• Embrace lots of autonomy and our flexible work culture. We trust you to work hard and achieve great things, all while balancing your personal and professional life. Your work-life balance is our top priority!
• Be heard and make a lasting impact – your ideas count, and we welcome leadership initiatives. Let’s innovate together and make a difference in the world!
• Join our diverse and inclusive Voilá family. You’ll be valued and supported by a team that values uniqueness and inclusivity.
• As part of our commitment to the well-being and work-life balance of our employees, full-time employees are entitled to six (6) paid sick days and four (4) paid personal days annually.
• Employees are eligible to request remote work for up to 30 days

Please send your resume and cover letter to laiba.khaqan@voilalearning.com