Product Owner - Metro Vancouver Regional District, Canada - TransLink

TransLink
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Metro Vancouver Regional District, Canada

1 week ago

Sophia Lee

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Marketing Statement:


A career at TransLink and our family of companies means working with people with a wide range of skills and perspectives, all teaming up towards a common goal: preserving and enhancing the region's world-envied quality of life.

Together, we connect the region and enhance its livability by providing a sustainable transit and transportation network, embraced by our communities and people.


At TransLink we are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live.

We're committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace, recognizing the unique value and skills every individual brings.


Looking for a great place to work where your contributions are valued and you can make a difference in a vibrant city? At TransLink, one of BC's Top Employers, you'll help make Metro Vancouver a better place to live, built on transportation excellence.

Put your future in motion


Responsibilities:


PRIMARY PURPOSE


Manages the product lifecycle within the strategic framework of BTS and relevant business units, working collaboratively with various stakeholders (including senior leaders) across the enterprise.

Works with business stakeholders, BTS, and solution providers to ensure products deliver on user needs, maximize value, and facilitate effective communication.


KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Contributes to the vision, roadmap and return on investment of one or more products. Oversees short to medium-term planning and manages the product life cycle. Accountable for continuously adding value to the product and empowering the development team. Assess the true needs of the business and decide on work to be performed by the team. Makes recommendations to the stakeholders in making informed decisions about product delivery.


Manages overall budget for the product, including developing, planning, monitoring, and making decisions on the reallocation of resources cross-functionally to deliver the product.


Responsible for communicating effectively with key stakeholders, including senior leaders, executives, customers, business managers, and the development team to make sure the goals are clear, and the vision is aligned with business strategies and objectives.

Tracks and communicates progress on all requirements associated with product releases. Communicates with Product Managers and other key stakeholders to report or discuss vision, progress, risks and issues.

Leads collaborative elicitation and documentation of business, functional and non-functional requirements. Translates the ideas and requirements into high-quality agile artifacts, such as epics, features, and user stories. Adheres and contributes to Agile standards and best practices, including documentation and processes.

With the vision, strategy, and product priorities set, the product owner owns the lifecycle of the product. A key player throughout each event, including planning, refinement, review, and sprint. Responsible for product backlogs.

Leading the definition, maintenance and prioritization of user stories, defects and enablers in collaboration with users, architects, Agile team members and other stakeholders.

Acts as an expert at understanding and anticipating the client's needs to manage the development process more effectively. Elaborates story details to facilitate effective sprint planning and management of dependencies between stories and teams. Leads the resolution of key customer and stakeholder concerns and escalations.

Participates in Scrum ceremonies and provides ongoing guidance and support to the Agile team. Offers key inputs based on the performance of previous sprints and challenges experienced. Provides key decisions for the Agile team.


Validates completed stories meet the predefined acceptance criteria and comply with the Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD).

Also, assures the built-in quality of the product, focusing on maximizing value. Collaborates with the team and stakeholders to facilitate Sprint reviews and product demonstrations.

Works closely with the Product Manager and Business stakeholders to ensure release notes and other implementation documentation are created and reviewed, the required training is delivered, and product release communications are supported


Works with the solution providers and software suppliers to anticipate, plan for and provide feedback on changes that will impact the product(s), such as new features, versions, patches and other material changes.


Works in cross-functional project teams across the enterprise having matrix reporting and provides feedback that will affect people management practices e.g., performance management succession planning, talent mapping etc.


Qualifications:


EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
The requirements for this job are acquired through a bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science or related discipline plus seven (7) years of related, demonstrated exp
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