Product Owner

Agility PR Solutions•Ottawa, ON

11h•Remote

About The Position

Reporting to the Vice President of Product Development, the Product Owner is responsible for understanding market and customer needs and translating them into clear and actionable items for our Engineering team. Agility is focussed on building production-grade agentic workflows and AI-driven applications. You will play a key role in shaping how intelligent agents operate across our platform—driving automation, insight generation, and decision intelligence for PR professionals. You will act as a customer advocate, and using your strong sense of leadership, you will work collaboratively with our Agile software development team and other stakeholders, including Sales Enablement, Customer Success, Channel Partnerships, and our leadership team to create the best products in our industry. You will be responsible for defining requirements and evaluating the work generated by the software engineering team to develop a product that delivers valuable business solutions to our clients and helps establish our company as the technology leader in the industry.

Requirements

2+ years as a Product Owner in an Agile environment.
You possess a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent experience).
Experience working with SaaS products and API integrations.
Demonstrated experience using data analytics, or other quantitative techniques to evaluate and guide product decisions.
Excellent communication and presentation skills that allow you to clearly communicate to both external users, and internal team members.
Experience with both JIRA and Confluence.
You are an avid problem solver - you will find a way through any challenge and think of hybrid solutions that meet stakeholder needs.
You are a leader/self-starter with vital project planning and organization skills.
You are data drive and use it as part of your decision-making process.
You're curious and take an experimental approach to your work, collect feedback at every step and gather customer data to validate, qualify, and refine your work.

Nice To Haves

Experience within PR Software and Newswire industry is an asset

Responsibilities

Serve as the voice of the client with our Agile software development team.
Develop scope and define backlog items (epics/features/user stories) that guide the Agile software development team.
Solve product-related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments.
Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.
Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product.
Help prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on initiatives with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
Work with Marketing to help articulate the value and value proposition for our products.
Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams.