Product Owner

Product Owner

Quebec City, QC (Hybrid) Full Time

Role Summary

As part of their duties, the Product Owner (PO) will be paired with a talented and professional development team that is used to tackling varied and complex challenges. The multidisciplinary team is responsible for setting up and developing a solution to accelerate the industrialization of artificial intelligence models.

The team defines and deploys an automated processing chain aimed at facilitating the training of artificial intelligence models in order to increase and facilitate the analysis of collected data. The team is made up of developers and artificial intelligence specialists.

Essential Functions

As a Product Owner, your responsibility is to align the product vision with the strategic and functional stakes of the various stakeholders.
Vision and direction
• The PO must be able to fully understand the issues of users and stakeholders, and must understand the technological and budgetary limitations of the product in order to make good decisions in building the system to maximize performance and value add.
• They document the vision and functional roadmap of their product; defining functions, technological needs, and product evolutions;
• They work closely with other teams using their product to align their development roadmaps with the product roadmap.
Planning
• The product owner organizes quarterly project planning;
• They validate the functional breakdown and ensure the consistency of all product functions;
• They define and document the work plan as well as user stories that they write and prioritize in a backlog;
• They participate in estimating the overall development and support cost structure of the product;
• The product owner must be able to maintain and communicate the release plan to various stakeholders;
• The product owner prioritizes user needs across different projects using the product to ensure alignment with the overall product vision based on project constraints;
• The product owner communicates with stakeholders related to different projects using the product to take into account issues that could impact product priorities and deliverables;
• The product owner is responsible, jointly with the team, for respecting the product delivery commitments.
Validation
• The product owner validates the alignment of the team's work with the product vision during sprint reviews.
• They validate the quality of the team's work in sprint reviews where they test and execute system test scenarios;
Communication and documentation
• The product owner must maintain and communicate the product roadmap to various stakeholders and product users;
• The product owner must present the product internally and externally;
• They communicate with various stakeholders related to the product in order to take into account issues that could impact priorities and deliverables (project manager, UX designer, technical lead, scientists, clients, collaborators...);
• The product owner may have to contribute, with the rest of the team, to the functional and user documentation of the solutions developed.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or any other related field is relevant;
• The candidate should have at least 10 years of relevant experience;
• Good command of French and English, spoken and written;
• Have good communication, be a good listener and demonstrate openness in order to work with various stakeholders such as clients, project managers, scientists, designers and the development team;
• Have a good sense of organization, responsibilities and prioritization;
• Having intellectual curiosity, the desire to learn and diversify is essential;
• Have aptitude for teamwork and promote collective intelligence;
• Capacity for functional analysis and breakdown into functional blocks.

This position requires a good knowledge of English for drafting technical documents, to interact with, support and/or provide services to international clients, employees and/or partners as well as to foreign government authorities who do not speak French.

Desirable Qualification

• Experience with Agile development methods (Scrum, Kanban) is an asset;
• Demonstrated expertise in the field of complex and distributed software solutions

Special Job Requirements

Travel: between 4 and 6 trips to Europe or elsewhere in Canada are expected per year