Product Owner - Toronto, Canada - CGI

CGI

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Our Product/IP team is quickly growing thanks to our success in the market, we are proud to be launching a brand-new product for Financial Planning / Financial Wellness.

This will be a new product, based on the acquisition of a client solution.

This is a unique opportunity for a Product Owner to drive and execute the roadmap, turning the solution into a marketable SaaS product, and taking the new offering to market.

This team is driven by collective success. Collaboration and the power of an inclusive team are at the forefront of creating a shared vision.
Insights you can act on

While technology is at the heart of our clients' digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.

When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes.

We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of.

This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today — one of the world's largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.

At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

Ready to become part of our success story? Join CGI — where your ideas and actions make a difference.
Your future duties and responsibilities
At CGI, our product owners work in cross-functional teams to balance client needs, market needs, and user experience.

Our PO's own the product backlog and roadmap and are accountable for ensuring that what we release to production lives up to our standards.

Leading the definition of the product vision, roadmap, and highlevel product backlog for assigned areas of the product.
Defining the key users and use cases / user journeys and mapping in collaboration with our UX partners
Collaborating on UI designs with our UI designers
Maintaining a groomed backlog of requirements through the lifecycle (from client or market Requirement, to Epic, to Story)
Aligning the needs of clients by collaborating with client BA's and working directly with clients to understand needs, and grooming/prioritizing your backlog/roadmap accordingly
Reviewing test plans/cases and serving as business acceptance stakeholder for our releases
Collaborating with engineering teams (incl. BA's, Dev, QA) to ensure they can deliver your roadmap successfully.
Deep experience in AGILE development, SCRUM or SAFe and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)) is critical in this role
Participating as the business stakeholder in sizing, estimation, and sprint planning
Collaborating with the Product Director and Product Manager to support reviews by the Advisory Board, the CGI IPMF review process, and new proposals

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

5+ years of experience in projectbased services or software delivery environments.
Industry experience and vision experience with financial planning / financial wellness solutions, key use cases, users / journeys, and market / industry needs. Certified Financial Planner (CFP) certification.
Product ownership knowing how to make a product successful in the market (from vision to execution)
Excellent communication skills the ability to summarize for executive consumption, to write clientfacing communication, and to moderate discussions
Good stakeholder management skills knowing how to manage stakeholder expectations, communicate status and proactively followup, escalate issues for resolution, and enforce proper governance
Outcomefocused constantly reviewing priorities, drivers, objectives, to ensure you are addressing the need and not just completing the task

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