Junior Product Owner

Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid (Every Wednesday and 3rd Friday of the month)

Contract Length: 6 months.

We at Raise are hiring a Junior Product Owner for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand.

We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.

Responsibilities

• Understanding and Documenting Requirements - Work closely with business partners to gather complex business requirements and facilitate solution design discussions to ensure you meet project needs. Build strong relationships, lead discussions, listen and ask the right questions to ensure solutions meet requirements.
• Solution Design - Build client-focused solutions that meet business requirements. Prepare and validate solution design documents around areas such as scope clarification, solution requirements, and quality assurance.
• Organization - Oversee requests from various stakeholders and thought‐ fully create and/or edit a wide variety of presentation and communication materials (e.g. key messages, communication plans, tactical deliverables, presentations etc.)
• Communication - Superior interpersonal and communication skills sufficient to convey or present factual and conceptual information on issues which require detailed explanation and interpretation.
• Production Support - Conduct investigation and provide resolution (with help of developers when needed) for issues brought up by business.
  
  

Must Have Skills

• 2+ yrs of Product Owner experience.
• Understanding client experience and impact to making changes - financial experience - how people do banking.
• Quality Assurance (pilot and production testing), and advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
  
  

Nice To Have

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies, and Application and/or Architecture Development.
• Previous banking experience (Retail banking)
• Previous Digital experience
• Jira/Confluence
• Technology background (APIs and how they work)
  
  

Education And Certifications

• Degree/diploma in Computer Science, Business, and/or a related field.
  
  

Looking for meaningful work? We can help!

Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.

We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.

We have a dedicated webpage for accommodations where you can learn more about what we offer, and request accommodation: https://raise.jobs/accommodations/

In order to submit candidates for roles, our clients will sometimes require personal information to confirm the identity of applicants and their legal status to work. Raise will never ask you for personal or banking information unless you have been selected for a job. If you are ever unsure about the legitimacy of this or another job posting by Raise (or have any other questions), please contact us at +1 800-567-9675 or [email protected]

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