Digital Product Owner responsible for maximizing product value in Sun Life Financial's investment services. Collaborating with stakeholders to deliver advisor and client-focused digital solutions.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain a product vision and roadmap aligning to overall strategic vision
Create, prioritize and manage a Product Backlog to maximize business value, maintaining an adequate backlog of user stories to sustain persistent agile team’s delivery capability
Communicate business, client/advisor and end user goals, decisions and priorities
Develop user stories, define acceptance criteria and be available to the agile delivery team to provide clarity whenever required
Sync with other Product Owners when needed from an overall product, company, or advisor/client perspective to ensure there is consistency across products and product releases
Be an agile change agent; support organizational change management, when required
During Sprint Execution, the Product Owner will be involved in:
Sprint Planning preparation
Participating in daily Scrum meetings
Prioritizing the team’s backlog. Includes balancing new features, enablers, defect fixes, dependencies, and removing technical debt
Backlog grooming and refinement
Articulate and validate the Definition of Done, the Definition of Release and validate/provide acceptance on user stories once they are completed
Providing acceptance when user stories are completed
Participate in business validation of product releases
Lead Sprint Demo/Review sessions and participate in Retrospective ceremonies
Assess risks, impacts and manage dependencies across delivery teams
Requirements
Knowledge of the investment services and investment funds industry or related wealth management experience
Demonstrated knowledge of technology or ability to learn about technology and digital products
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work collaboratively, develop solid relationships, manage differences and influence change
Be a capable decision maker and influencer that can drive decisions with executives, stakeholders and cross-functional teams
Ability to collaborate with and make decisions with the agile team’s technical lead, with support from the Platform leadership team, when needed
Ability to assess an audience to shape communications and clearly articulate thoughts and ideas
Ability to manage and lead the team to push solutions forward
Ability to deal with ambiguity be flexible and adaptive to change
Ability to work independently and exercise judgement
Empower others to fail, learn and grow
Benefits
Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family
A friendly, collaborative and inclusive culture
Joining a reputable organization with over 150 years of history
The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
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