Software Product Owner

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of, manage, and prioritize the team backlog to ensure it aligns with product strategy, the technical roadmap, and business objectives.

• Convert business needs, customer feedback, and product priorities into well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items.

• Establish sprint objectives and assist the team in delivering incremental value during each iteration.

• Engage actively in SAFe ceremonies, such as PI Planning, iteration planning, backlog refinement, system demonstrations, and inspect-and-adapt sessions.

• Work collaboratively with Product Management, Portfolio, Solution Designers, Business Analysts, UX/UI, QA, and development teams to shape, refine, and deliver product capabilities.

• Ensure that backlog items are clearly understood, appropriately sized, sequenced, and ready for delivery.

• Make well-informed product decisions at the team level and offer clear prioritization guidance to the development team.

• Decompose larger features or value streams into smaller, deliverable increments of value.

• Assist in aligning testing, quality, usability, and delivery expectations across teams.

• Validate completed work against acceptance criteria and ensure that outcomes align with business and customer expectations.

• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and obstacles, and work with stakeholders to find resolutions.

• Advocate for continuous improvement and contribute to Agile maturity within the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A solid understanding of Agile delivery practices, especially within a SAFe framework.

• Proven experience in managing and prioritizing a team backlog.

• Capability to translate business and customer requirements into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Strong collaboration skills with technical teams, business units, QA, UX/UI, and portfolio stakeholders.

• Good grasp of the software development lifecycle, quality practices, and product delivery processes.

• Ability to weigh business value, technical feasibility, risk, and delivery capacity when prioritizing tasks.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management abilities.

• Ability to make decisions, provide clear direction, and assertively decline requests when necessary, backed by solid business rationale.

• Experience in participating in PI Planning or similar cross-team planning activities is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Paid time off

• Flexible work arrangements

• Professional development opportunities