Product Owner II
$80,000–$95,000 year
HybridCalgary, Alberta, Canada or Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Job Summary
Conduct requirements analysis and gather business needs for global Finning business units, diving into both current and future states. Create and manage a backlog of well-groomed user stories, ensuring they meet the definition of ready and done while balancing feature delivery across multiple sprints. Collaborate with development, architecture, UX, UI, and QA teams to estimate work and maintain conceptual integrity. Support operational improvements to the development pipeline from planning through execution and provide comprehensive documentation for features. Participate in roadmap planning, wider platform demonstrations, and business case modeling for new solutions.
Required Qualifications
- Product owner skillset
- 5+ years of equivalent experience
- Agile practitioner in at least 1 professional role
- Full lifecycle software delivery
- Customer journey mapping
- Feature/Capability planning
- Experience with in depth requirements gathering
- A minimum of degree level education or the equivalent relevant industry experience
- Agile certification
- Ensure development teams have clear and concise user stories for at least 2 sprints
- Best practices and recommended Finning standards are followed
- Delivery of multiple features are balanced and delivered according to previously agreed timelines within 1 planning increment
- Estimations for feature work include input from relevant professional practices in Finning such as architecture, UX, UI, and QA
- Act as a Product Owner with development team(s)
- Create and manage a backlog of well-groomed user stories for the features that you are actively working on
- Ensure that stories are completed to an acceptable level, have the correct UX/UI inputs and are in line with our product strategy
- Ensure that the definition of ready and definition of done are met to a high level of quality
- Work with the product management team to understand the product
- Work on the near term roadmap by providing input into feature creation
- Participate in wider demonstrations of the platform to the wider Finning business and all stakeholders
- Provide comprehensive documentation on the features you are building
- Support and manage your squad members in the production of necessary documents
- Support operational improvements to our development pipeline from planning through to execution
- Follow best practice and ensure that you and your squad operate to a high standard
- Ensure that process is adhered to, ensuring that a quality delivery plan can be followed
- Proven track record of dealing with stakeholders
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
- Concise and clear written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to adapt to the needs of specific audiences
- Solid time management, planning and prioritization skills, with an ability to manage multiple task and priorities concurrently
- Solid organizational, interpersonal and customer service skills
- Resilience, with the ability to adapt under changing business priorities
- Ability to continue to learn and develop
Desired Qualifications
- Salesforce/CRM/ERP work experience
- A knowledge of current and emerging technology
- Knowledge of UX and CX
- Wireframing and rapid prototyping
- QA and UAT practices
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