Senior Product Owner

• Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
• Type: Contract
• Job #14331

MatchBox Consulting Group is currently seeking a Senior Product Owner for a 12-Month contract position. This role will work out of our clients downtown Vancouver office. This is a hybrid role (2 days in office and 3 days remote).  

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Lead a collaborative needs gathering process with customers to elicit and document business, functional and non-functional requirements
• Author high quality user stories and acceptance criteria and work with others such as Architects, UX professionals and other product team members to do the same
• Own and maintain the product backlog by building, maintaining and prioritizing the team backlog of user stories, defects and enablers with input Product Managers,?Architects and other stakeholders.
• Review, reprioritize and communicate story details to facilitate effective sprint planning and management of dependencies between stories and teams
• Track and communicate progress on all requirements associated with releases
• Collaborate with Product Manager to help plan, prioritize and scope the product roadmap
• Provide ongoing guidance and support for scrum ceremonies and offer key inputs based on the performance of previous sprints and challenges experienced
• Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to facilitate team demos
• Actively participate, support, and continually improve each release through all release activities including sell off, acceptance testing and all associated formal testing
• Lead the resolution of key customer and stakeholder concerns and escalations
• Ensure that post operations activities and action items are completed including final formal test/operations, smoke testing, etc.
• Work with the Technical Lead to accept development user stories as complete based on the definition of done
• Work closely with the Release Manager and Operations to ensure release notes are created, required training is performed, and communications are supported

Qualifications
Education and Experience

• A business or technical degree with 4-5 years of experience in product management
• Experience with SaaS, regulated environments, agile development, and managing multiple stakeholders would be ideal
• Experience with real estate or legal conveyancing processes would be an asset
• Demonstrated ability to effectively translate business requirements into technical/functional requirements and launching new features into production
• Extensive understanding of the development cycle, agile frameworks, and how to manage a development sprint
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to adapt to multiple stakeholders and clients

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present ideas in user-friendly language
• A self-starter with the ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Extensive information technology experience preferred (such as computer science or systems engineering)
• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence
• Knowledge of business and systems deployments in the public sector would be an asset

For more current job opportunities,  Follow  MatchBox at  linkedin.com/company/matchbox-recruitment/

_________________________

About MatchBox

Headquartered in downtown Vancouver and serving clients nationally,  MatchBox is one of the leading recruitment and solutions firms that specializes in the fields of IT & Technology, Engineering & Technical, Real Estate & Construction, and Accounting & Finance. We offer unrivaled expertise with our team's extensive experience in the recruitment and professional services industry. We are dedicated to building great connections and creating strong opportunities within the workforce and the labor market.

Equal Opportunities

MatchBox is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including members of minority groups such as racialized individuals, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, and Indigenous peoples. It is a priority for us that all candidates are treated fairly and without discrimination. Our recruitment teams receive ongoing training on using objective criteria for evaluating candidates and other related topics to create an inclusive and welcoming environment for all.

Work Permits

Please note that we require all interested candidates to obtain the necessary work permits from the Government of Canada prior to submitting an application. This position is open exclusively to individuals residing in Canada and legally authorized to work in Canada. Applications not meeting these criteria will not be considered.

Further Consideration

We receive a high volume of applications and are only able to contact candidates who are selected for further consideration.

#LI-MB1