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Product Owner

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full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Tech Stack

AngularMicroservicesPostgresReactRubyRuby on Rails

About the role

  • As a Product Owner, you’ll be working with our Product Team and will be instrumental in shaping the foundations and shared capabilities of our All-in-One Platform (AIOP), ensuring our Employment Operating System scales seamlessly across all global markets.
  • Scaling Platform Excellence: Delivering shared capabilities (Identity, Permissions, Data Models) that enable internal teams to build and ship features 2x faster.
  • Product Reliability: Ensuring 99.9% uptime and high-performance standards for all platform-level microservices.
  • Seamless Integration: Streamlining the "All-in-One" experience so customers move between HR, Payroll, and Benefits with zero friction.
  • Data-Driven Innovation: Leveraging AI and user research to prioritize the platform roadmap based on measurable impact.
  • Owning delivery for your platform squad, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, and cross-functional coordination.
  • Defining clear scope, epics, and user stories for new platform capabilities and technical enhancements.
  • Partnering with engineering to shape pragmatic, scalable solutions across our Ruby on Rails and React/Angular stack.
  • Driving platform quality by ensuring initiatives include robust observability, monitoring, and security considerations.
  • Collaborating with multiple "spoke" product teams to unblock delivery and ensure platform work accelerates their outcomes.
  • Leading discovery for platform opportunities, including technical spikes, problem framing, and outcome definition.

Requirements

  • 3–7 years of experience as a Product Owner in SaaS, specifically within platform, shared services, or infrastructure-adjacent areas
  • Technical Literacy: Comfort validating RESTful APIs and a solid understanding of microservices, PostgreSQL, and CI/CD
  • Stakeholder Mastery: Proven ability to align diverse cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, remote-first environment
  • Analytical Rigor: A high bar for quality in PRDs and the ability to make prioritization decisions grounded in data and evidence
  • Execution Focus: A track record of simplifying complex technical problems into actionable delivery phases
  • Academic Foundation: A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or equivalent practical experience
  • Nice to have: Hands-on experience with Canadian benefits products and/or benefit platform integrations
Benefits
  • You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
  • You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs
  • You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
  • You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies
  • You’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits that includes - a very generous parental leave policy, subsidised egg freezing (so you can make the choice that’s right for you, on your terms), a WFH office expense budget, and outstanding learning & development opportunities
  • Annual Global Gathering - so far we’ve been to Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, Dubai and are excited to meet in Gold Coast in Australia in September 2026
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Hard Skills & Tools
Product OwnerRESTful APIsmicroservicesPostgreSQLCI/CDRuby on RailsReactAngularbacklog groomingsprint planning
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcross-functional collaborationanalytical skillsexecution focusproblem-solvingcommunicationleadershipadaptabilityteam alignmentdata-driven decision making