Senior Product Owner, Lead

Telesat

Senior Product Owner acting as the bridge between customers and development team at Telesat. Managing product vision and prioritizing implementation for global satellite solutions.

Posted 7/13/2026full-timeGatineau • 🇨🇦 CanadaSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product management within the telecom industry, focusing on stakeholder collaboration, requirement documentation, and backlog prioritization. Proficient in translating high-level requirements into actionable user stories while ensuring quality standards and effective communication across teams.

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Product ManagementStakeholder CollaborationRequirement DocumentationTelecom Industry ExperienceUser Story Development

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Hard Skills

Element ManagementNetwork ManagementControl Plane ApplicationsCloud Native ArchitectureData AnalyticsDistributed Storage SystemsVirtualizationMulti-Tenant Applications

Soft Skills

Creative Problem-SolvingAnalytical SkillsStrong Communication Skills

Certifications & Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in TelecommunicationNetwork EngineeringSoftware Engineering

Industry Keywords

Telecom IndustrySatellite TelecommunicationsWireless Telecommunications

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop and communicate a clear vision for the product, ensuring alignment with the overall business strategy and customer needs.
Work closely with stakeholders to gather and document requirements, ensuring that all user stories are clear, concise, and actionable. Organize the traceability of requirements to implementation, delivery, and testing.
Prioritize and maintain the product backlog, ensuring that it accurately reflects the priorities of the business and provides the development team with a clear understanding of what needs to be built.
Break down high-level requirements into actionable user stories, including detailed acceptance criteria and acceptance tests.
Collaborate with the development team to plan and prioritize releases, balancing the need for new features with the need for stability and maintenance.
Act as the primary point of contact between the development team and stakeholders, facilitating communication and ensuring that everyone is aligned on priorities and expectations. Work actively with other product teams to ensure that inter-dependencies are identified, scheduled, and resolved.
Work closely with vendors providing components and systems to Lightspeed. Ensure that our requirements are understood and our priorities addressed.
Work closely with the QA team to ensure that all user stories meet the required quality standards before they are released to production.
Gather feedback from customers and stakeholders and incorporate it into the product backlog, ensuring that the product continues to evolve to meet changing needs and market conditions.
Become a knowledgeable user of our tools. Provide support and training to end-users to ensure successful adoption and optimal utilization of the implemented systems.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in telecommunication, network engineering, software engineering or equivalent practical experience.
At least 10 years as a developer, system analyst, product line manager, or similar roles in the telecom industry.
Experience with element management, network management, and control plane applications.
Familiarity with virtualization, cloud native architecture principles, multi-tenant applications, streaming, data analytics, and distributed storage systems.
Highly motivated and able to independently drive projects to completion
Creative problem-solving skills and strong analytical skills
Strong written and oral English communication skills
Familiarity with satellite and wireless telecommunications considered an asset.

Benefits

Comp & perks

At Telesat, we take pride in being an equal opportunity employer that values equality in the workplace.
We are committed to providing the best candidate experience possible including any required accommodations at every stage of our interview process.
All qualified applicants that have been selected for an interview that require accommodations, are advised to inform the Telesat Talent team accordingly.
We will work with you to meet your needs.
All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential.