Product Owner, News - Toronto, Canada - CBC/Radio-Canada

CBC/Radio-Canada

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Toronto, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job Family Media Production

Primary Location Toronto

Position Language Requirement English Only

Language Skill Level (Reading)

Language Skill Level (Writing)
Language Skill Level (Speaking) Status of Employment Permanent

Work schedule(s) Full-time

Working at CBC:

At the CBC, we all have a story to tell. What's yours?
If you share our passion for Canadian storytelling and you wish to help us engage with individuals and communities across our various digital platforms, this is where you'll want to be

Every day, you will have an opportunity to shape the way in which Canadians see themselves reflected in our digital services.

Your work will have a direct impact on how millions of Canadians from various communities connect with our products, with one another, and with the diverse voices that make our country so unique.

You will have the opportunity to play a part in enlightening and entertaining Canadians through our innovative work in building the mediums that deliver our content.

We are an innovative hub, where the talented professionals we work with are respected and valued for their contributions. Our product teams are vibrant and our work culture strives to achieve the highest standards of diversity and inclusion.

We believe that hiring people with different career paths and backgrounds is fundamental in our shared success and in building healthy and highly performant teams.

When you join our mission, you are not only shaping the vision of the CBC, but the future of our country.

We know that commitment to equity, inclusion and diversity is essential to creating content that mirrors and resonates with the rich and evolving makeup of our country.

We're also committed to reaching out and connecting with our audience on multiple platforms this includes creating virtual places where communities can come together.

This role offers the possibility of full-time telework or hybrid.

Here's why we should work together:

Our digital teams' values
collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement
embody who we are as a people-focused, digital-forward employer. We follow lean startup principles and use an Agile approach. Our dedicated people managers work closely with every individual to ensure we are leveraging their strengths, championing their ideas and supporting their pursuit of new skills and their desired career progression.
Here at CBC Digital Strategy & Products, we want you to be happy and feel good at work. It is essential that work be a safe space where our employees are able to share their authentic selves with one another and to push each other to challenge conventions.

Why is this role important?

The Product Owner for our News & Sports Apps product team creates inclusive, engaging and accessible product experiences for people in Canada through our CBC News and CBC Sports apps.

Your work will be informed by clear, measurable key results and delivery expectations.

You will be responsible for managing and delivering the backlogs related to the CBC News and CBC Sports apps, including the Olympics app experience.

You will be responsible for coordinating the execution of work with developers and designers, taking strategic product direction from the News & Sports Apps Product Manager.

How you will make an impact:
As the Product Owner with the News & Sports App team, you will create user and business value through managing the product backlog and delivery

Your responsibilities will include:

Ensuring alignment to the overall product strategy through collaboration with the Product Manager.
Creating and managing the product backlog, epics and user stories to deliver the most value to CBC's priorities and objectives across the News & Sports Apps products.
Coordinating and facilitating scrum events (e.g. backlog refinement, planning).
Contributing to the News & Sports Apps product roadmap and prioritization.
Supporting planning and implementation planning for quarterly team objectives.
Establishing measurable product outcomes (product performance metrics) across apps and web, with a focus on alignment of metric values across products.
Overseeing and monitoring releases and validating quality with team.
Collaborating with the Agile Team Lead and other product teams and internal teams to manage dependencies, optimize our value delivery and minimize code/release conflicts.
Liaising with the Product Manager to define product priorities, decisions, resolutions.
Liaising with the Lead Developers and Solution Architect to align on technical priorities, decisions, resolutions.
Clearly articulating and plan for the execution of development and QA tasks.
Facilitating removing obstacles related to product priorities/goals/vision.
Communicating delivery progress.
Participating in identifying and solutioning product risks related to Value, Viability, Usability (with Product Design and Research) and Feasibility (with the Solutions Archite