Product Owner

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Who we're looking for:
The Manager, Data Science Product Owner is responsible for the Portfolio & Product Management, managing the roadmap, prioritization, and lifecycle of Machine Learning (ML) models and model feature-store capabilities. Acting as the primary interface between business stakeholders and the Model Development & Strategy (MDS) team, this role translates business opportunities and requirements into a prioritized portfolio of data science and data capabilities. The role works closely with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, MLOps teams, and business partners to ensure initiatives are properly defined, prioritized, delivered, adopted, and continuously optimized throughout their lifecycle.

This role requires a strong understanding of the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle and the ability to balance business value, technical feasibility, delivery effort, and available capacity across a complex portfolio of initiatives.

What you'll do:

Portfolio Roadmap & Prioritization

Own and maintain the roadmap and backlog for machine learning models and feature-store assets.

Balance investment across new capability development, enhancement of existing assets, model retraining, and ongoing maintenance activities.

Evaluate and prioritize competing requests based on business value, strategic objectives, delivery effort, dependencies, risks, and available capacity.

Support portfolio planning activities and provide recommendations to Data Science leadership regarding priorities and sequencing.

Business Partnership & Demand Management

Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and the MDS organization.

Gather and assess demand from business teams and translate business problems into clearly defined use cases, requirements, expected business value, success metrics, and implementation needs.

Facilitate intake, discovery, and requirements discussions to ensure initiatives are appropriately defined before entering the delivery pipeline.

Build strong relationships with stakeholders to understand evolving business priorities and identify opportunities for new analytical and machine learning capabilities.

Delivery Coordination & Execution

Coordinate end-to-end delivery across Data Science, Data Engineering, MLOps, and other teams responsible for developing and operationalizing solutions.

Manage dependencies, delivery sequencing, risks, and cross-functional coordination across multiple concurrent initiatives.

Partner with technical specialists to evaluate feasibility, implementation approaches, delivery effort, technical dependencies, and resource requirements.

Facilitate planning, status reviews, and stakeholder updates to ensure successful execution and deployment.

Model & Feature Store Lifecycle Management

Maintain visibility into the inventory, status, and health of production models and feature-store capabilities.

Track assets throughout their lifecycle, including intake, development, validation, deployment, monitoring, enhancement, retraining, and retirement.

Support governance reviews, lifecycle checkpoints, and model portfolio management activities.

Ensure appropriate documentation, traceability, and portfolio reporting are maintained.

Adoption, Performance & Value Realization

Track adoption, utilization, and business impact of delivered models and feature-store capabilities.

Monitor asset performance and identify opportunities for optimization, reuse, consolidation, enhancement, or retirement.

Support measurement and reporting of business outcomes and value realization.

Prepare portfolio dashboards, performance reporting, and executive-ready summaries for leadership review.

What you bring:

3+ years working in Data Science or AI/ML, with experience in Product Management, Portfolio Management, or Program Management.

Strong understanding of the machine learning lifecycle, including feature engineering, model development, validation, deployment, monitoring, retraining, and retirement processes.

Experience working with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, MLOps teams, and business stakeholders.

Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and coordinate cross-functional initiatives.

Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills.

Experience translating business requirements into actionable delivery plans.

Preferred

Experience supporting machine learning, customer decisioning, marketing analytics, or AI product portfolios.

Familiarity with feature stores, MLOps practices, model governance, and model lifecycle management.

Experience with Databricks, Azure ML, Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar platforms.

Telecommunications, marketing analytics, or customer analytics experience.

Success Measures

Portfolio priorities are transparent, aligned, and effectively managed.

Business demand is translated into a well-defined and actionable delivery pipeline.

Models and feature-store capabilities are delivered efficiently and adopted by stakeholders.

Portfolio health, lifecycle status, and business impact are consistently tracked and reported.

Opportunities for enhancement, reuse, optimization, and retirement are proactively identified and executed.

What’s in it for you? 
We believe in investing in our people and helping them reach their potential as valuable members 
of our team. As part of our team, you’ll have access to a wide range of incredible resources, growth 
opportunities, discounts, and perks, including:

Competitive salary & annual bonus. 

Competitive & flexible health and dental benefits, pension plan, RRSP, TFSA, and Stock matching programs. 

Discounts: Enjoy up to 50% off Rogers Services and Blue Jays Tickets, 25% off TSC items, and a 20% discount on all wireless accessories sold in Rogers stores. 

Paid time off for volunteering. 

Company matching contributions to charities you support. 

Growth & Development Opportunities: 

Self-driven career development programs. 

Rogers First: priority in applying to internal roles of interest. 

Wellness Programs: 

Employee & family assistance program. 

Virtual Healthcare.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). 

Low or no-cost fitness membership. 

Our commitment to diversity: 

An inclusive and diverse workplace where you can bring your whole self to work. 

To protect our people, brand and assets, a pre-employment background check will be conducted. As part of our selection process, all candidates must clear a criminal background check. Additionally, a credit check and drivers abstract may be required depending on the role.

Schedule: Full time
Shift: Day
Length of Contract: Not Applicable (Regular Position)
Work Location: 1 Mount Pleasant (083), Toronto, ON 
Travel Requirements: Up to 10%
Background Check(s) Required: Canadian Criminal Record Check 
Posting Category/Function: Technology & Information Technology
Requisition ID: 344128

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Posting Notes: Corporate