Product Owner

3 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Univeris Full time

Who we are
Univeris has been successfully building and modernizing wealth management software for over 30 years. We are the go-to solution for many financial services firms (e.g., mutual fund dealers, securities dealers, wealth management firms and insurance companies) that want to stay competitive in an intriguingly digital world. To date, more than 25,000 financial advisors and 1.5 million investors in 12 countries have converted to our money-managed platform—with over $450B in Assets Under Administration. Why? Because we have the technology to streamline portfolio management, drive efficiencies and improve productivity.

At Univeris, we value talent and ideas. This means our employees have the freedom to do things they know would be great and meaningful for our clients and for the company. We’re looking for people who are creative, get excited by new opportunities to learn and grow and feel at home by an organization that supports them. Ready to start your career?

The Opportunity

Univeris is in the midst of an exciting transformation of our Enterprise Wealth Management Platform, focused on both the expansion of the features we offer to our current market and the expansion of the markets that we serve with our platform. To achieve this objective, Univeris needs a dynamic Product Owner to lead new and enhanced products and capabilities to market and to help strengthen our Product Management practice. The Product Owner is the Product representative on an Agile Product Team, responsible for maintaining and prioritizing the team's Product Backlog so as to streamline the execution of program priorities. The role has significant interactions outside the local team, including working with customers, internal stakeholders and software engineers and architects.

The Role
The Product Owner is embedded in one or more cross-functional Product Teams and fulfills the primary accountabilities outlined below for all assigned Products and Product capabilities.
Defining and communicating relevant Product Requirements prior to development in collaboration with team members, product leadership, customers and other stakeholders.
Maintaining and prioritizing a sufficient backlog of ready to work backlog items to facilitate Sprint Planning, such as Epics, User Stories and Tasks
Accepting User Stories as being completed based on their established acceptance criteria and Definition of Done. In so doing, the Product Owner also fulfills a critical quality assurance function, focusing primarily on fitness for use.

The Product Owner fulfills the following responsibilities for all assigned Products and/or Product capabilities:
Understanding the company long and short term Company Goals and Objectives and defining annual product objectives to meet the corporate strategy
Owning the Product Roadmap for the assigned products and capabilities
Preparing Business Requirements Documents based on market analysis for new products and capabilities to demonstrate the business value of the proposed work
Collaborating with Product Team members in writing stories, taking accountability for having a backlog of ready to work stories and prioritizing them for Sprint Planning
Collaborating with Scrum Masters to practice agility and capitalize on Scrum to maximize the product value and ensure continuous improvement.
Ensuring each User Story has the necessary Acceptance Criteria defined in collaboration with the Product Team
Coordinating dependencies and activities with other Product Owners as necessary to support "Team-of-Teams" initiatives
Sharing market information and business insights with the Product Team to give context to the requirements to help ensure that the right problems are being solved by the team
Continuously developing relevant product domain expertise and market insights and sharing that expertise with the Product Team
Participate in Product Increment planning, tracking progress towards increment and release objectives and communicating to the organization
Defining new User Personas as necessary in conjunction with the Product Team and user experience experts.
Participating in all Agile ceremonies with the Product Team including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos and retrospectives.
Presenting the summary of work for the Product Team in Sprint Reviews and inviting appropriate stakeholders to give feedback.
Reviewing and contributing to the user and technical guides to ensure that they are updated and completed to coincide with Release milestones, and ensures that all product documentation follows corporate standards and practices
Preparing product release documentation
Participate in product launch planning and execution in collaboration with Product Marketing
Assisting Product Marketing with the preparation of product sheets and other collateral to ensure relevance and accuracy

In addition, the Product Owner acts as an important representative to customers, including:
Representing the voice of the custom

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