Sun Life

Associate Director, Product Owner – Investments

Sun Life

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Toronto • Canada

Visit company website

Explore more

✨ AI Apply
Apply

Salary

💰 CA$80,000 - CA$128,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Create the product roadmap and contribute to defining a strategic roadmap that aligns to the organization’s vision
  • Manage dependencies with other teams while identifying, building, and managing partnerships with various stakeholders
  • Work closely within the team to translate user needs and feedback into new developments
  • Create and maintain a product roadmap that translates corporate strategy into a cohesive product execution plan
  • Work closely with stakeholders, including customers, developers, designers, and management, to align and gather requirements with continuous feedback
  • Facilitate discussions on requirements and service levels; capturing detailed user stories and acceptance criteria to ensure that features meet the desired outcomes and quality standards
  • Create, prioritize and manage the product backlog, ensuring that the development team has a clear understanding of the tasks/priorities while remaining accountable for the outcome
  • Participate in sprint planning and review meetings, providing clear guidance and feedback to the development team
  • Ensure effective communication of product goals, progress, and changes across the organization; ensuring stakeholder expectations are effectively managed and met during change cycles
  • Accountable for ensuring Objectives and Key Results are established, progress monitored/communicated and met for their squad
  • Monitor the performance of the product through key performance indicators (KPIs) and customer feedback and make data-driven decisions for continuous improvement
  • Ensure adherence to data governance, data quality and risk control during the Data Product Lifecycle.

Requirements

  • Proven knowledge of investments space, 5+ years in capital markets/asset management industry
  • Demonstrates knowledge of technology or ability to learn about technology and digital products
  • Experience working on technical products is a plus
  • Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams from technology, design, business, and operations
  • Ability to lead others to drive solutions forward
  • Excellent problem solving and communication skills to analyze options and arrive at the best solution
  • Strong executive-level communication skills with comfort speaking with business stakeholders and influencing/negotiation with others
  • Proven communication, consultation, and facilitation skills; leading diverse stakeholder groups to agreement
  • Well versed in navigating complex organizational structures and the capability to develop productive working relations with internal stakeholders across the region and globally
  • Highly motivated with demonstrated eagerness for continuous learning and self-growth
  • Strong understanding and work experience in agile development methodologies
  • Managing a backlog/release plan, tracking team level metrics, removing blockers
  • Passion to challenge the status quo, find new solutions and drive out-of-the-box ideas
  • Not afraid to “roll up sleeves” and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn
  • Encourages an experimental and continuous learning mindset to drive innovation
  • Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust
  • Innovative thinking that can break down barriers and provide unique solutions
  • A proven track record of fostering a culture of trust, transparency, and collaboration.
Benefits
  • Excellent benefits and wellness programs to support the three pillars of your well-being – mental, physical and financial – including generous vacation and sick time
  • Market-leading maternity, parental and adoption leave top up program
  • Partially-paid sabbatical program
  • Pension, stock and savings programs with an employer-paid match to help build and enhance your future financial security
  • Flexible work environment with a friendly, caring, collaborative and inclusive culture focused on career growth development
  • Opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
product roadmapuser storiesacceptance criteriaproduct backlogkey performance indicatorsdata governancedata qualityrisk controlagile development methodologiescapital markets
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem solvingcommunicationconsultationfacilitationleadershipnegotiationinnovationcontinuous learningstakeholder management