Senior Product Owner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Oversee the delivery for the Billing and Data teams by managing team backlogs, facilitating Agile ceremonies, and ensuring that work is clearly defined, prioritized, and ready for engineering execution.

• Create comprehensive feature epics and user stories with clear acceptance criteria.

• Manage and conduct UAT, including writing and executing SQL queries against BigQuery to confirm data accuracy and the integrity of pipelines.

• Coordinate release planning, draft release notes, and manage internal communication regarding rollouts.

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and the Program Manager on dependencies, strategies, capacity, sequencing, and coordination.

• Define and validate MVPs that align with NMI's strategic objectives.

• Provide product training and enablement for customer-facing teams, support staff, and internal stakeholders.

• Communicate upcoming work, progress, and timelines to stakeholders and executives.

• Acquire in-depth knowledge of NMI's five billing platforms and act as the primary contact for billing-related matters.

• Collaborate with finance and cross-functional teams to ensure compliant, auditable billing integrations.

• Identify risks related to platforms, technical debt, and opportunities for consolidation.

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of data ingestion pipelines, transformation layers, and data artifact delivery on GCP and BigQuery.

• Work alongside data engineering on data models, views, and dashboards.

• Champion data governance, lineage, scalability, usability, and compliance in data handling.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Technical Product Manager, demonstrating a strong history of feature ownership in platform, infrastructure, or data-centric environments.

• Proven capability to become the primary Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the products and features you oversee, encompassing both technical depth and business context.

• Strong understanding of cloud-based data platforms, pipelines, and tools such as BigQuery, dbt, and Airflow.

• Ability to write and execute SQL queries against BigQuery for UAT validation, ensuring that pipeline outputs, transformation logic, and data accuracy meet specified acceptance criteria.

• Proficient in Agile development frameworks and tools, including Jira, Confluence, and Figma.

• Experience in conducting and managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure product quality and satisfaction among stakeholders.

• Strong communication skills that effectively bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience in coordinating software release cycles, QA processes, and documentation.

• A passion for understanding end users and transforming insights into actionable product improvements.

• A technical background, such as a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience, is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary + bonus

• A remote-first culture!

• Flex PTO

• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• 13 Paid Holidays

• Company volunteer days