Principal Product Owner-Remote

Job Description:

The Principal Product Owner is a key leader in the product organization, helping forge our processes, culture and business results, and will see real in-market impact from your work, all while helping build our future product business.

****This is a 1st shift remote role paying $120k-$140k CAD****

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

As a Principal Product Owner, you will:

• Define and communicate the long-term vision and strategic direction for the SaaS collaboration platform.
• Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and gather customer feedback to identify and prioritize product enhancements and new features.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align the product strategy with business objectives and ensure a clear product roadmap.
• Develop and maintain a detailed product roadmap, considering business goals, technical feasibility, and market trends.
• Break down the product roadmap into manageable milestones and prioritize features and initiatives based on value, urgency, and resource availability.
• Collaborate with development teams to estimate effort and plan sprints and releases.
• Serve as the manager for other product owner in an Agile/Scrum development environment, working closely with Senior Product Owners and development teams to ensure successful delivery of product increments.
• Write and prioritize user stories, create wireframes, and define acceptance criteria for development tasks.
• Conduct regular meetings with cross-functional teams to provide clarity, guidance, and feedback on product requirements.
• Work closely with UX/UI designers to ensure a user-centric design approach and a seamless user experience throughout the platform.
•  Conduct usability testing, gather user feedback, and iterate on designs to improve the product's usability and user satisfaction.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including executives, sales, marketing, and customer support, to understand their needs, gather requirements, and align product priorities.
• Regularly communicate product updates, progress, and plans to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and managing expectations.
• Plan and execute successful product launches, coordinating with marketing and sales teams to drive product awareness and adoption.
• Monitor product usage, gather customer feedback, and analyze metrics to identify areas for improvement and drive product optimization.

Minimum Education

• Bachelor's Degree required or equivalent in education and experience.
• MBA and/or advanced technical degree preferred. 
• CSPO title is a plus.

Minimum Experience

• 10+ years of experience as a Product Owner with software for mission-critical products, working with Agile methodology.
• Background in engineering, technology, or UX preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Proven experience in customer development, product definition, feature scoping, and balancing tradeoffs for industry-leading business software products.
• Experience in cloud computing with Federation, Public/Private/Multi Cloud is a plus.
• Experience with creating/managing/delivering IaaS/SaaS/PaaS/Cloud products is a strong plus.
• Strong organizational skills: ability to track and prioritize multiple issues.
• Ability to adapt to changing situations and requirements.
• Excellent oral, written communication, and presentation skills required.
• Ability to communicate effectively with engineering and sales teams.
• Must be a strong collaborator, team player, and individual contributor.