Sun Life

Product Owner – Financial Planning Digital Experience

Sun Life

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Toronto • Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$90,000 - CA$140,000 per year

About the role

  • Collaborate with One Sun Financial Planning program stakeholders to ensure digital products align with the program’s strategy and requirements
  • Integrate your team’s delivery into the broader program delivery schedule, identify interdependencies inside and outside of the program and set a clear path forward for the team on an ongoing basis.
  • Setting an ambitious and clear vision for each feature that aligns to the overall journey vision and communicate that vision effectively to stakeholders, your team, and the organization
  • Work closely with business leaders to establish each feature’s business value, and support messaging communication and customer outreach as necessary
  • Prioritize and manage items in the back-log that allow you to maintain a back-log that is continuously one quarter ahead of the team
  • Use market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for the team
  • Determine end-to-end team output strategy from inception to production
  • Be accountable for product specific OKRs and communicate progress to stakeholders
  • Stay at leading edge of existing market solutions/components being able to identify how they can transform our experiences.
  • Be an advocate for simplicity of design and development, to deliver to market as effectively and efficiently as possible.
  • Oversee all required changes to the platform, including regular operational updates and maintenance, by implementing timelines, tracking, and closely overseeing risks and dependencies.
  • Support regular governance reviews of the platform and vendor relationship, including completing intakes and attending enterprise governance touchpoints with stakeholders
  • Monitor already launched digital assets and determine how to optimize their performance, by developing a framework to measure impact of improvements.
  • Identify experimentation opportunities and propose test and learns.

Requirements

  • Experience using development methodologies, particularly agile development
  • Effective at influencing others in supporting product direction to push an end solution forward
  • Strong communication skills and comfortable speaking with business stakeholders
  • Able to navigate a large organization at a senior level
  • Ability to collaborate and make decisions effectively with Technical Leads and Scrum Masters
  • Skilled in handling change management
  • Excellent ability to problem solve and analyze options to arrive at the best solution
  • Able to empower others to fail, learn, and grow
  • Encouraging experimental mindsets to drive innovation
  • University degree in Marketing, Business or Information Technologies
Benefits
  • Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health – mental, physical, and financial
  • The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
  • As a hybrid organization, you and your leader use business and Client need to choose where you work, at home or in the office

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
agile developmentuser storiesacceptance criteriaOKRschange managementperformance optimizationdigital product managementbacklog managementgovernance reviewsexperimentation
Soft skills
influencingcommunicationcollaborationdecision makingproblem solvingempowermentinnovationstakeholder engagementvision settingorganizational navigation