Product Owner - Direction Innovation H/F

Univeris has been building and modernizing wealth management software for over 30 years. We are the go-to solution for many financial services firms - including mutual fund dealers, securities dealers, wealth management firms, and insurance companies - seeking to stay competitive in a digital-first world. Today, more than 25,000 financial advisors and 1.5 million investors in 12 countries rely on our platform, representing over $450B in Assets Under Administration.
We help our clients streamline portfolio management, drive efficiencies, and create meaningful value. At Univeris, we value talent, innovation, and ideas. The Opportunity We are looking for a Product Owner to play a critical role in our ongoing SaaS transformation and product modernization journey.
This role is ideal for a product professional who takes pride in quality, clarity, and delivery excellence — someone who thrives at the intersection of Product Management and Engineering and is motivated by ensuring that what ships is complete, correct, and fit for use.
The Role As a Product Owner at Univeris, you are accountable for delivery readiness, backlog integrity, and system quality within your product domain.
You do not own the product roadmap or commercial strategy - that accountability sits with Product Management. Instead, you own how value is delivered, ensuring that work is well-defined, validated, and ready to ship with confidence.
Ensure work entering development is sufficiently defined, understood, and sequenced for effective sprint execution.
Own requirement quality, not document volume - producing lightweight, fit-for-purpose artifacts (including PRDs when appropriate).
Requirements & Quality Ownership
Identify and incorporate non-functional requirements such as security, data integrity, performance, and scalability.
Act as the quality gatekeeper for your domain, with authority to accept or reject work based on acceptance criteria and readiness standards.
Sprint & Iteration Planning
Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives to support predictable, high-quality delivery.
Develop deep understanding of product workflows, data models, integrations, and downstream impacts.
Protect long-term product quality while enabling continuous delivery.
Customer & Stakeholder Collaboration
Engage customers and internal stakeholders for requirements clarification, workflow validation, UAT, and post-release feedback.
Represent the voice of the customer within the delivery team to ensure solutions solve real problems.
Validate release readiness for your scope, ensuring quality, completeness, and operational readiness.
Lead technical and functional training for Client Success, Support and Sales teams prior to every release.
Oversee user manuals and configuration guides, ensuring that Marketing and Sales materials are technically accurate.
Use AI tools to improve clarity, quality, and delivery efficiency.
Apply AI to synthesize feedback, validate requirements, surface edge cases, and improve documentation quality.
Product Managers trust that outcomes are translated accurately and executed with quality.
3–5 years of experience as a Product Owner or in a similar product delivery role within an Agile environment.

• Experience delivering B2B SaaS or enterprise software; fintech or regulated industry experience is a strong asset.
• Solid understanding of iterative delivery, Agile principles, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to define high-quality requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Comfort working with complex systems, data flows, and inter-team dependencies.
• Proven Qualities

Strong sense of ownership and accountability for quality and readiness.
Advanced degree in a technical or business field.
Experience with regulatory frameworks.
Compensation will be aligned with internal equity, experience, and scope of responsibilities.
The Work Environment Downtown Toronto HQ, with hybrid flexibility (3 days in-office/remote). Values clear ownership and high-quality execution.
You’ll help build software that financial advisors and firms rely on every day - and you’ll do it in an environment that values clarity, trust, and impact.

Univeris is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from qualified individuals of all backgrounds. Accommodations are available upon request during the recruitment process.

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