Product Owner Jobs

Dog and Pony Studios is a hybrid remote agency headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Our teams work at the cutting edge of technology and design, collaborating with some of the highest-impact organizations globally.

We’re seeking a seasoned Digital Product Owner experienced in the planning, execution and delivery of exceptional technology solutions for high-stakes projects and world-renowned organizations. Our product owners are expected to bridge the gap between our clients' visions and our team's execution. They seamlessly translate business requirements into thoughtfully considered solutions across a range of tasks, including: defining functional specifications, planning of content management architecture, feature roadmapping and task prioritization while managing oversight and accountability throughout the product development lifecycle.

What you offer

As a Digital Product Owner, you will be a deeply knowledgeable technologist who thrives in a team of highly intelligent and friendly A-players. You will be working in a highly functional agile environment, interoperating between clients, project managers, designers and developers. You have strong time and change management skills. You seek to understand our clients’ business objectives and are able to translate that understanding into clear functional requirements. You have previous end-to-end experience with enterprise-level websites and come from a technical, engineering or development background; preferably with hands-on experience in the Financial Services or Fintech space.

Responsibilities

• Clearly articulate product features, functionality, and expected behaviors to all project stakeholders, internal and external
• Manage product scope and oversee changes to scope and deliverables
• Ensure a common understanding of requirements and solutions across teams
• Interpret business requirements and formulate appropriate solutions considering cost/benefit analysis for proposed solutions
• Define and communicate the criteria for accepting completed work, ensuring deliverables remain high-quality
• Prioritize and maintain the product backlog, ensuring tasks align with business goals and deliver maximum value
• Create briefs and tasks for the production team that clearly communicate requirements and expectations
• Coordinate intake with production teams to define the project scope, technical requirements and functional specifications
• Collaborate with clients to define and develop user personas and journey mapping
• Drive the product roadmap, including feature prioritization, and release planning
• Drive client intake, business requirements, and technical discovery for new projects
• Ensure delivery of fully functional products and product features
• Liaise clearly and efficiently between clients, project managers, designers and developers

Expectations

• Possess deep knowledge of content architecture planning and modeling
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of user-experience design patterns
• Proven experience as a Product Owner in a digital agency setting
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of digital product development and web technologies
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies
• Ability to make informed decisions quickly and under pressure

What we offer

• No Diva Policy: This is a friendly, collegial, client-centric team focused on delivering world-class products.
• Paid Vacation: 3 weeks annual paid vacation + annual wellness time off through Christmas and New Year
• Global Clients: Work on interesting and complex projects for some of the biggest companies in the world.
• Structured Career Plan: We recognize great work and reward you accordingly. We provide a structured career path with regular evaluation-based promotions.
• Remote Office: Work from home. We’re a hybrid remote agency, and have been since 2008. If you’re in Toronto, you can drop into our headquarters to work as you’d like. And meet your global teammates face-to-face a few times a year when we bring people together.
• Paid Benefits: 100% coverage, without co-pay, with our benefits package.
• Paid Sick Leave: Generous yearly allowance for paid sick days.
• Global Team: We hire the best professionals from all over the world. Be part of a highly motivated, multidisciplinary team working on cutting-edge digital experiences.

About Dog and Pony Studios

We’re a creative agency based in Toronto, Canada with 20+ years experience serving global corporate clients. Our sector expertise is largely focused on financial institutions. We’re a rapidly growing distributed team of 30+ people spanning Canada, Brazil and Europe. We work across multiple creative disciplines, including digital marketing, design and development, motion graphics, video production and content creation.