Product Owner I - Toronto, Canada - TD Bank
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Department Overview
- The Product Owner I is responsible to ensure that a development team (pod) is creating value for the organization through the delivery of customerfocused product increments. This entails aligning with other Product Owners and senior management to follow a product vision, creating and maintaining a prioritized product backlog, managing delivery blockers, continuously assessing customer feedback. The Product Owner I should always be considering how to maximize value, assessing how the product or the delivery process can be continuously improved, contributes to a positive work environment and ensures that work embodies the Agile principles of transparency, collaboration and engagement.
- Partner with management to support the delivery of a product vision
- In alignment with the product vision, create and maintain a product backlog and continuously reprioritize user stories that will provide the most customer or end user value
- Continuously align with senior management on the product delivery roadmap, defined Minimum Marketable Features or Minimum Viable Products and release cadence
- Review performance analytics; recommend and champion strategies to enhance the customer or end user product experience
- Participate in scrum or Kanban events (e.g. standups, retrospectives), express new ideas for improving product value or delivery efficiency, sharing with leadership as appropriate
- Create a valuefocused product backlog and continuously iterate, ensuring there are user stories scoped and prioritized
- Provide user story design, development and completion oversight; accepting / rejecting user stories based on the agreed upon Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria
- Manage delivery initiatives and oversee development team (pod) backlogs
- Proactively raise issues that impede the efficient delivery of customerfocused increments
- Responsible for defect management and prioritization
- Adhere to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to activities for own business area / journey
- Ensure ongoing strategic alignment with senior management, providing feedback as appropriate
- Consider development team and stakeholder feedback in backlog management, facilitating conversations with multiple stakeholders representing competing priorities
- Understand the internal business and technical environment, proactively defining, aligning or integrating with relevant stakeholders, shared services control groups (or platform as appropriate
- Lead the submission and discussion on the Quarterly Business Review, with respect to their product
- Proactively manage business stakeholders to obtain inputs needed for product development in a timely manner
- Monitor the regulatory environment and partner with the senior management to consider changes to product strategy as needed
- Actively coordinate and engage in risk, quality and/or business testing management
- Empowered to make product delivery decisions, escalating to senior management as appropriate
- Actively communicate to business, technology and senior management regarding product changes and backlog priorities
- Single point of escalation for development team, providing guidance and decisioning as needed
- Work cohesively with peers to reinforce Agile processes
- Compile performance metrics and share with relevant stakeholders
- Define the OKRs in partnership with numerous stakeholders across the organization
- Protect the interests of the organization
- Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts
- Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite
Job Requirements
- Undergraduate degree and / or product certificate
- 7+ years relevant experience
- 3+ years Product Owner or 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
Additional Information
- Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
- Provide thought leadership and/ or industry knowledge for own area of expertise in own area and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit
- Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
- Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team
- Keep others informed and uptodate about the status / progres
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