IT Product Owner (PO)

Leon's Furniture•Toronto, ON

About The Position

The product owner acts as the primary liaison between Business Units and Information Technology. This role focuses on understanding organizational structure, operations, and strategic objectives, ensuring technology solutions support and enhance business outcomes. The product owner is responsible for identifying business needs, translating requirements into cost-effective IT solutions, and guiding initiatives through the full project lifecycle. The Product Owner supports both IT and operational teams through analysis, solution design, prioritization, project and change management.

Requirements

Excellent interpersonal skills, oral and written business communications.
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strong sense of business understanding and urgency.
Experience in support and the ability to operate in Agile / Scrum methodology.
Stakeholder management.
Demonstrated ability to self-motivate and ability to prioritize multiple projects to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Experience in defining product vision and managing product roadmap.
7+ years of experience as a Product Owner.
Successful track record of delivering high value IT products to the business
Able to demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience in serving as a subject matter expert for applications
Experience in leading and managing projects until completion

Responsibilities

Define Product Vision and Strategy
Working with the business to define the product vision and roadmap
Drive business process improvements to align product with business strategy
Ensure the development team understands the product vision and roadmap
Build a strong partnership with the business to understand strategic plans, operational needs, and upcoming initiatives
Facilitate early-stage project scoping, including business objectives, requirements, and high-level cost/benefit considerations
Stakeholder Management and Prioritization of Initiatives
Project management. Create project plan, project charter and provide project update to business stakeholders and senior leaders. Acting as the primary liaison between customers, stakeholders, and the development team, ensuring business needs are met
Creating, refining, and assisting in prioritizing product initiative items (user stories) to ensure alignment with business value and product / organization strategy
Work jointly with business stakeholders to clarify and specify their requirements.
Track and communicate project progress, risks, and impacts to stakeholders
Define Requirements and Acceptance Criteria
Collaborate with business and business analyst to define and document business requirements
Work with business to provide acceptance criteria
Clearly define functional and business rules
Challenge assumptions and business processes to ensure all exceptions are fully understood
Support development team in understanding the project deliverables
Facilitate Scrum meetings; Accept or Reject Work.
Lead and manage projects, business-driven initiatives until completion
Facilitate daily standups, and sprint planning to provide immediate feedback
Help development estimate and establish/confirm sprint goals
Review completed features from the development team to ensure business requirements are met
Support user acceptance testing (UAT)