Product Owner

Buyatab, a Corpay line of business is a FinTech maverick and officially one of the most popular technology companies in BC. Buyatab is a leading supplier of advanced online gift card infrastructure, technology and marketing services for leading brands. Working with some of the world’s leading brands (including Four Seasons, Fairmont, Whole Foods Market, Lowes), we are recognized for our solution and design flexibility, focus on client brand standards, high-quality customer support, and fraud protection guarantee. As a result, our clients are positioned to grow their gift card business, enhance their brands, gain a competitive edge, and leverage the rapid growth in mobile device use and social media.
We’re looking for a Product Owner to join us and make a real impact
You are passionate about agile methodology and thrive in a highly collaborative team environment. You think critically as well as have an ability to empathize with different team perspectives and user groups. You want to be involved in the entire product development cycle, balance big picture strategy with day to day needs, and to bring people with varied perspectives, needs, and ideas together toward meaningful action and delivering value. This is an ideal opportunity for an individual looking to add a great product to their portfolio, work in a highly iterative environment and within a Product team dedicated to building a better gifting experience for the user.
If problem solving is your specialty and analytical is your middle name, get in touch
**What you’ll get to do**:
Work with Product, Client Success and Customer Service teams to research, understand, and validate user needs and market opportunities; and translate them into product requirements.
Form a deep understanding of our users and new markets by conducting user research, synthesizing data from metrics and sales/customer conversations, and testing core assumptions.
Assist the Product Manager on defining product strategy by closely working with all stakeholders to achieve company’s strategic goals.
Work with highly efficient engineering teams to deliver products built with cutting edge technology effectively and usefully.
Manage project scope by making tradeoffs between key software requirements such as time vs cost, software security vs speed.
Create and groom the product backlog based on priority driven from users and Product Strategy.
Work with engineering teams to assess and mitigate potential security vulnerabilities in the product.
**You are someone who has**:
2-3 years of experience as a Product Owner. You have seen a successful track record of delivering high value products to customers.
A Computer Science or Engineering background ensuring you can intelligently communicate with all stakeholders about technical tradeoffs and product details.
Excellent communication skills. Able to convey complex ideas to elicit stakeholder alignment and buy-in across all levels of the business.
Strong understanding of how product development teams operate cross functionally. You have the know-how to talk with engineers about architecture and technical considerations that impact the Product.
High EQ. Able to motivate people around a common goal, and facilitate thoughtful and constructive conversations between disparate groups.
Strong hands-on experience managing digital product (like ecommerce site) development including developer facing products (like APIs) and shipping elegant client facing products.
Strong sense of software security and experience of working with engineering or security teams at early stages of product development.
You are comfortable thinking through processes and workflows, anticipating points of failure, and working to make processes robust.
Experience of working with one or multiple high-performing teams of software engineers using Agile software development practices.
Experience with data analytics to understand product usage, identify opportunities, measure product performance and to suggest improvements to increase usage.
Proficiency in latest Product Management theory and concepts. Strong understanding of product design thinking and usability heuristics.
A strong understanding of Lean, Agile, and Product Management best practices, product design thinking and usability heuristics.
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