Bilingual Software Product Owner (100% remote)

LifeWorks, Inc.$90K — $120K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Montreal, QC
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Fluent in French and English (both oral and written)
  • 3+ years of experience as a Software Product Owner, Scrum Master, or similar Agile role
  • Proficient in managing and prioritizing backlogs (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps)
  • Experience in PI planning or cross-team planning activities
  • Interest or background in actuarial science, pension plans, insurance, or financial services
  • Strong understanding of Agile delivery practices and the software development lifecycle

Responsibilities

  • Master the internal system and comprehend complex issues contributing to the team's work
  • Structure and optimize the technical backlog in alignment with product strategy and business objectives
  • Maintain ongoing dialogue with end users to gather feedback and adapt priorities
  • Translate business needs and feedback into clear user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Define sprint objectives and support progressive delivery
  • Participate actively in SAFe/Agile ceremonies and planning activities
  • Collaborate with a senior team to shape product capabilities

Benefits

  • Work with a senior, experienced team that values stability and collaboration
  • Opportunity to engage in a transformational project within a reputable company
  • Promote continuous improvement and contribute to Agile maturity in the team
  • Ability to learn swiftly in a complex and specialized domain
  • Support for team-oriented decision-making and accountability
Full Job Description
Join our Data Task Force team as a Software Product Owner. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a transformational project on the Retirement & Benefits Solutions side at TELUS Health. In this role, you will be responsible for driving product delivery by managing and prioritizing the team's backlog, setting sprint and increment goals, and ensuring alignment with business objectives, technical direction, and customer needs.

You will be surrounded by a senior, experienced team — colleagues who understand the system and are proud of their expertise. This is a team that values stability, quality, and collaboration.

You will also collaborate with development, quality assurance, solution design, business, portfolio, and UX stakeholders to translate priorities into clear user stories and deliverables and guide the team toward high-quality results.
What You'll Do:
  • Master the internal system and understand the complex issues underlying the team's work
  • Structure and optimize a technical backlog to ensure alignment with product strategy, technical roadmap, and business objectives, ensuring items are well understood, properly sized, sequenced, and ready for delivery, broken down into small deliverable increments
  • Maintain constant dialogue with end users and internal customers by gathering feedback, understanding their satisfaction, and adapting priorities to ensure ongoing alignment with business expectations
  • Translate business needs, customer feedback, and product priorities into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items
  • Make informed decisions and provide clear priorities to the development team
  • Define sprint objectives and support the team in progressive delivery during each iteration
  • Actively participate in SAFe/Agile ceremonies — cycle and iteration planning, backlog refinement, demos, and inspection/adaptation activities
  • Collaborate closely with a senior team of experts to shape, refine, and deliver product capabilities
  • Represent the team to internal and external colleagues as the primary point of contact, communicating progress, challenges, and impacts with clarity
  • Orchestrate resources and navigate multi-team dependencies by mobilizing the right people (from your team or others) and proactively managing blockers
  • Support alignment of expectations regarding testing, quality, usability, and delivery across teams
  • Prioritize and manage critical bugs and system fixes to maintain product stability, organizing rapid response to critical incidents, determining the best resolution strategy with the team, and identifying associated risks and blockers
  • Validate and deliver quality — verify that work meets acceptance criteria and customer expectations
  • Promote continuous improvement and contribute to Agile maturity within the team

What You Bring:
Technical Skills
  • Fluency in both French and English, oral and written
  • 3+ years' experience as a Software Product Owner, Scrum Master, or similar Agile role
  • Experience managing and prioritizing a team backlog (Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent)
  • Experience participating in PI planning or similar cross-team planning activities
  • Interest or experience in actuarial science, pension plans, insurance, or financial services — OR a very strong ability to learn quickly in a complex and highly specialized technical domain
  • Good understanding of Agile delivery practices
  • Good understanding of the software development lifecycle, quality practices, and product delivery
  • Ability to translate customer needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Ability to balance business value, technical feasibility, risk, and delivery capacity when prioritizing work
  • Ability to clearly connect business objectives to backlog priorities

Soft Skills
  • Learning Ability: You demonstrate curiosity and learn quickly while recognizing the expertise of those around you
  • Clear Communication: You communicate effectively with stakeholders (business teams, Dev, QA, UX)
  • Facilitation and Alignment: You build consensus among different perspectives and encourage the team to contribute to decisions
  • Product Ownership: You demonstrate strong accountability for quality, customer value, and results

Assets
  • Experience working in SAFe or large-scale Agile methodology
  • In-depth knowledge of Agile tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or equivalent
  • Experience delivering complex software products or digital solutions
  • Previous experience with legacy systems or actuarial architecturesIntermediate English knowledge is required, as you will be called upon on a regular basis to interact in English with external parties (e.g., clients, vendors, or external partners); to interact in English with internal parties (e.g., colleagues or stakeholders); and to work in an English IT environment as part of tasks related to this position whose scope is international.

Intermediate knowledge of English is required because you will on a regular basis interact in English with external parties (clients, suppliers, candidates, external partners, etc.); interact in English with internal parties (colleagues, internal partners, stakeholders, etc.); and work with IT tools whose interface is only accessible in English as part of this position's main responsibilities given its international scope.

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