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About the role

  • Product Owner managing Agile teams at Manulife, focusing on delivering innovative solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align product roadmaps with strategic goals.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the creation and ongoing refinement of Product Roadmaps that align with strategic goals and customer needs.
  • Participate in discovery activities with cross-functional teams to understand stakeholder requirements and inform backlog priorities.
  • Translate business objectives into clear User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
  • Use qualitative insights to support prioritization and decision-making at the team level.
  • Lead day to day backlog management ensuring work is well defined, prioritized, and ready for development.
  • Participate in agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Standups, and Sprint Retrospectives.
  • Make tactical trade-off decisions that balance scope, timeline, and quality within the team’s delivery boundaries.
  • Provide ongoing delivery updates to stakeholders and collaborate with teams to maintain alignment on sprint goals and timelines.
  • Ensure User Stories meet defined acceptance criteria and requirements.
  • Monitor product health and escalate risks or technical constraints that impact delivery.
  • Support change management plans, communications, and training efforts for new product releases.
  • Partner with marketing, operations, and sales teams to prepare for and execute go-to-market activities.
  • Gather feedback post-release to support continuous improvement and adoption.

Requirements

  • 2 to 3 years of relevant work experience agile methodology or project management
  • Experience working in the Insurance industry is an asset; general business acumen with the skills to increase/mature business acumen
  • Strong knowledge of agile principles, project and program management tools, techniques, and methodologies
  • Use of common agile tools and applications like Confluence, JIRA, etc.
  • SAFe or, PMP or, CSPO designation, Change Management experience and/or certifications considered an asset
  • Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively across teams / stakeholder groups
  • Strong ability to clarify and document requirements, resolve blockers, and align expectations across teams.

Benefits

  • health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage
  • adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits
  • employee/family assistance plans
  • retirement savings plans including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions
  • financial education and counseling resources
  • generous paid time off program in Canada including holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
  • full range of statutory leaves of absence

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

CA$70,500 - CA$117,500 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

PMP

Location requirements

HybridWaterlooCanada

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