Product Owner, Content Platform - Mississauga, Canada - World Vision Canada

World Vision Canada

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Mississauga, Canada

6 days ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Are you looking for more than a job? At World Vision Canada we offer challenging careers that change the lives of children all over the world and it will change yours too.

Come and be part of a team of 400 Canadians with a vision for the world:
Life in all its fullness for every child.

You will experience Christian faith in action helping to make real and lasting change in the lives of the world's most vulnerable children.

Join the World Vision Canada team and be part of a powerful and effective force for good:

For Children. For Change. For Life.

Position:
Product Owner, Content Platform

Reports to:
Impact Content, Lead

Position Term:
Full Time Permanent

Primary Location:
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Workplace Type:
Remote (Within Canada)

The Digital Content team focuses on delivering high-quality content that meets user needs and is data-driven, while supporting business goals.

The team is looking for a highly motivated individual with strong digital content background to work with content creators, product managers, researchers and marketers to plan and create content (product) for World Vision Canada, continually improve that content, and evolve WVC's voice and content standards.

Following a disciplined Agile Scrum approach, the Product Owner, Content Platform (operating as a Content Strategist) will be a part of dedicated agile team(s) focused on creating digital content in various formats, to be leveraged by different teams in a variety of channels and tactics.

The role is to establish and execute a strategy to guide content activities and decisions that meet user and business needs.

The product owner will champion data-driven decisions, market trends and testing, as World Vision Canada strives to be supporter-centric and differentiate with impact.

We are looking for high performing individuals who are:

Agile and innovative individuals, who can thrive in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold and strategic moves in this rapidly evolving environment.
Creative thinkers who take initiative and are capable of building, launching, and managing projects/programs/products that drive results for our customers.
Problem solvers with the ability to analyze and prioritize to meet business objectives.
Collaborative team players with superior influencing skills, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward and bring out the best of people.

Reporting into the Impact Content Lead, the Product Owner is a lead member of the Agile Scrum team that is responsible for both defining and prioritizing the Team Backlog so that the solution(s) meet organizational priorities and deliver stakeholder value.

S/he responsibilities include defining the features of the Content Platform, prioritizing such features, adjusting the features and priorities as needed after each sprint/iteration, accepting or rejecting work results, and keeping stakeholders informed on status as well as gain their feedback.

The Product Owner is also responsible for working closely with the Content Lead(operating as Product Manager) to ensure that the product (digital content) vision, roadmap, marketing and the backlog are all in alignment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Ensure team velocity and effectiveness

In collaboration with Product Manager, define the digital content roadmap, growth opportunities, and key metrics based on delivering organizational value
Own the process of ideation and creation of digital content, ensuring that maximum value is generated to the user by leveraging data, test results insights, best practices and current market trends
Understand the vision of digital content and evaluate various approaches to implement effective solutions
Provide vision to the Agile Scrum team members throughout projects and planning cycles
Drive innovation by translating thoughts and ideas into tangible requirements in the form of features, epics, capabilities, enablers and user stories
Ensure the Agile Scrum team has adequate amount of clearly defined and refined stories in the Team backlog to work on
Organize backlog prioritization to deliver epics, capabilities, features, enablers and stories with highest business value and eliminate or renegotiate scope of stories that do not align with the defined purpose of the Agile Scrum team
Play an active role working with the Scrum Master in mitigating, documenting, and removing impediments impacting completion of sprint goals and objectives
Prioritize needs between scope, budget and time weighing priorities according to supporter value
Actively participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, sprint review and retrospectives, sprint demos, and lead the planning release for output delivery
Can deep dive into the details while maintaining the roll up to 360 degree view

Act as primary interface with the organization