Technical Product Owner

**Career Opportunity**

GeoSpectrum Technologies Inc. is growing and has a new career opportunity for an experienced Technical Product Owner who is passionate about software product development that meets our customers needs.

As a Technical Product Owner, you are responsible for bridging the gap between business objectives and technical execution for embedded systems, while ensuring our products meet customer needs and align with the product roadmap. You’ll collaborate closely with key stakeholders, product management, and the development team. You will distill product requirements and bug reports into stories in a prioritized backlog for execution by development teams.

**Explore GeoSpectrum’s Story**

GeoSpectrum Technologies is a rapidly growing company that designs and manufactures state of the art underwater acoustic components, transducers and integrated end-to-end systems for maritime surveillance and exploration. GeoSpectrum is known for its innovation and designing leading-edge products.

With clients across ocean science, defence and homeland security, and oil and gas industries, we’re proud of delivering reliable, customized solutions that go above and beyond the requirements of our customers.

GeoSpectrum was founded in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and continues to grow after three decades of engineering. Our company’s core values are woven into the fabric of our work, commitment to employee engagement, and client service.

**Responsibilities**
- **Product Ownership and communication**
- Build a comprehensive understanding of the current product and its product roadmap.
- Work with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, design/user experience, hardware engineering, and sonar operations experts to inform the product features and prioritization.
- **Technical Understanding;**
- Utilize a strong understanding of embedded systems, including hardware-software interaction, real-time operating systems, data flows and system architecture, to inform product decisions.
- **Backlog Managemen**t:

- Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog to ensure your team is always working on the highest priority tasks, balancing the development of new features, iterations, bug fixes, and other internal tasks.
- Create clear, fully scoped stories and train the development team on best practices for story definition and pointing.
- Ensure that the backlog is visible, transparent, and understood by the development team.
- **Task Definition**:

- Develop detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and product requirements.
- Collaborate with the development team to refine and clarify requirements.
- **Sprint Planning and Review**:

- Participate in sprint planning meetings to help the team understand the priorities and scope of work.
- Participate in sprint reviews, reminding all parties of the requirements being implemented and accepting stakeholder feedback to inform sprint planning.
- **Applied Agile Methodology**
- and mentor teams on Agile values, principles, practices, and tools.
- Support continuous improvement of GeoSpectrum’s Agile processes.
- **Additional Responsibilities**
- Participate in organizational occupational health and safety education, prevention, promotion, and reporting.
- Proactively participate in performance reviews, professional development and required company training.

**Qualifications**
- A degree/diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer, Engineering, Software Engineering or a related field.
- Experience with Agile methodologies, including SCRUM and are a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM).
- At least 5 years of experience building systems as a Product Owner and/or Software Developer in an engineering environment.
- Proficient in Agile project management tools such as JIRA and/or Confluence.
- Strong technical background in embedded systems, including knowledge of microcontrollers, firmware, and hardware-software integration.
- Preferred working in Linux / Unix operating systems
- Preferred experience in C or C++
- Preferred experience with applied algorithm development, physics, and / or real time processes

**Security Requirements**

**Explore our Culture and Benefits**

At GeoSpectrum, we take pride in fostering a workplace that based on professional relationships, innovation and continuous improvement, and agile. Our employees work together in a collaborative, cross-functional approach. Enjoy having fun at work? Our social community is next to none Our leadership team encourages our people to contribute their ideas, insight, and feedback for innovation, continuous improvement, quality management, and workplace safety.
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Work-life balance with core hours
- Paid Time Off
- Employee-Family Assistance Program
- Group Plan Benefits
- Virtual Healthcare
- RRSP matching
- Corporate Discounts and perks
- Career development opportunities
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