Lead Product Manager, Ownr

**Job Summary**

Ownr, an RBCx company, is hiring a Lead Product Manager to join our team in Toronto, ON. Ownr is the leading platform for entrepreneurship in Canada. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in developing Ownr’s product roadmap and strategic vision as we grow the platform to support even more entrepreneurs and small businesses in the future. Ownr is set to embark on its next growth phase, with the full support of RBC, and the Lead Product Manager will work closely with Ownr’s Head of Product to identify and build for new opportunities while supporting and refining our core services of business registration, insurance, and capabilities supporting the next generation of Canadian entrepreneurs and small businesses.

**About Ownr**

At Ownr, we have built the leading business registration platform in Canada and have helped over 200,000 Canadians establish their businesses. We take pride in simplifying what it takes to start a business, and we provide ongoing support that helps entrepreneurs succeed.

**What will you do?**

As a Lead Product Manager, you will be the driving force behind Ownr’s product strategy and ensure the product performs to expectations. Your role will include but not be limited to:

- Drive the execution of high-level product roadmaps into features and product delivery.
- Own the translation of business requirements; execute to deliver solutions that expand our product offerings in new experiences and value, to both our B2B and our B2C customers.
- Understand our key drivers, customer use cases, and full user flow impact across all platforms.
- Create, manage, and maintain KPI’s to monitor, analyze and improve conversion
- Lead the product planning and development process through backlog grooming, refinement, and prioritization activities
- Define and detail User Stories and prioritize team backlogs in accordance to our business drivers.
- Evaluate and document the requirements for each product feature, articulate these requirements, answer questions and make scope trade off decisions as needed.
- Ensure optimal delivery by removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance and develop contingency plans to demonstrate adaptability while supporting continuous learning.
- Bridge technical, business and creative worlds, engaging with matrixed teams including development, UX/UI design, copy, legal, risk and compliance, creating a collaborative environment while maximizing on business return.
- Drive internal stakeholders and cross functional business unit engagements necessary for an optimal on-time launch.
- Focus on backend functionality as well as user-facing features that make world class user engaging platforms.

**What will you need to succeed?**
- 6+ years of experience in product management for scaling technology companies
- Demonstrated experience scaling a B2B or B2C SaaS platform business in the SMB space or financial services.
- Experience translating business requirements to actionable software solutions.
- A clear understanding of software development processes, SaaS product platforms, and emerging technology tools.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with an ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Extensive experience developing use cases, epics and stories in a clear and concise manner, enabling the engineering team to deliver maximum productivity and value
- Experience maintaining and prioritizing the backlog in accordance with business and technology drivers.
- Experience in the planning of product releases and setting expectations for delivery of new functionality.
- A Proven ability to make hard decisions in a fast-paced environment, while actively identifying and mitigating issues that have an impact on successful completion of goals.
- Proven experience in developing and executing ambitious product roadmaps. A track record of driving significant product development directly impacting revenue growth and customer acquisition.

**Nice to Have**
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Self-Starter: Proven ability to operate autonomously, manage multiple priorities, independently contribute, ability to deal with ambiguity, and execute consistently in a dynamic environment.
- Financial Services and Banking: Well-versed with banking and financial products such as credit cards, payments, accounts, and debt services.
- Experience with the development process, use of tools like GitHub
- Experience using analytics tools such as: SQL, amplitude, and metabase

**What’s in it for you?**

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- Be part of Ownr’s collaborative, progressive, and high-perfor