Product Owner - Toronto, Canada - KEV Group

KEV Group

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

About KEV:

KEV Group is an enterprise SaaS company that provides an all-in-one activity fund management solution for K-12 schools.

By seamlessly integrating and automating all fee management processes, the SchoolCash platform provides real-time visibility and control over how districts and schools create, collect, manage, track, and reconcile these funds.

Parents benefit from an easy-to-use solution that offers convenience and supports all payment types. More than 22,000 schools across North America rely on SchoolCash to manage over $4 billion in activity funds annually.

The company is headquartered in Toronto, with offices in the Cambridge, ON and the U.S.

KEV is a portfolio company of Serent Capital, a leading middle market private equity firm focused on high growth technology businesses.

Why Join KEV?

Work in an industry that benefits children, parents and schools
Do meaningful and purposedriven work, and make a real impact
Join a quickly growing organization with real opportunity for learning and growth
Passionate and accessible leadership team that cares about people, personally and professionally
Hybrid work environment (3 days a week in either our Cambridge or North York office)
Amazing Product team

At KEV, we are the market leaders in student activity fund management.

Our school cash management, payments, and donations suite are used by tens of thousands of schools and millions of parents and guardians across North America.

Start-up meets corporate in this hybrid organization where we think big, pivot quickly to succeed, and are always asking 'what if?'.

About The Role:

We are looking for a Product Owner to join our team.

You will help us executing the product roadmap, prioritizing, writing business requirements and user stories, coordinating day-to-day activities for our school accounting, payments, and donations suite, used by thousands of schools and over a million parents and guardians across North America.

If you'd like to learn more and are passionate about product management, then please get in touch as we would love to chat with you.

You will work with the Product Manager to:

Execute the product roadmap
Meet with end users and stakeholders to understand their problems, and analyze product data and usage patterns to identify opportunities.
Define requirements, prioritize tickets and set expectations to deliver high value solutions.
Own the deployment process, release notes, and collateral for internal education.
Perform product demos.
Drive endtoend product development to execute product initiatives.

You Bring:

24 years of product management experience.
Experience with Agile development processes, writing user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Previous responsibility for daytoday interactions with large or multiple development teams clarifying requirements and troubleshooting issues.
Strong analytical and problemsolving skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret market needs and translate them into requirements that can use to inform technical designs.
Longterm thinking to daytoday interactions and decisions.
Detailoriented, resourceful, and able to prioritize under deadlines.
Strong desire for continuous learning and growth.

You're Extra Awesome With:

Accounting background
Have experience in the K12 market.
Have Ecommerce, FinTech or similar experience.
Have experience with WalkMe, Pendo or similar DAP software.
Have experience with JIRA or Azure DevOps.

We Offer:

Competitive salary
Comprehensive health and dental benefits.
Professional development opportunities.
Continuing Education.
Casual Office.
Snack packed kitchen.
Great colleagues and collaboration

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected.

It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required by the incumbent.

Incumbent may be asked to perform other duties as required.

KEV Group is pleased to accommodate individual needs in accordance with the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA), within our recruitment process.

If you require accommodation at any time throughout the recruitment process, please speak with Human Resources or the hiring manager.

KEV Group is an equal opportunity employer who agrees not to discriminate against any employee or job applicant because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.

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