Senior Product Owner - Temporary
Description
Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.
At Air Canada, we are passionate about building great digital customer experiences that help our customers travel the world. As we continue to grow the company into a global champion, digital is playing a leading role in all aspects of our customers’ journey. As a part of that growth, we are not only investing in what we build and how we build it, but the culture we are building around it as well.
Air Canada seeks a highly motivated and detail-orientated Senior Product Owner to join Air Canada’s IT team focusing on self-service check-in applications (web/kiosk). The ideal candidate is responsible for bringing together the business and technical aspects of feature delivery.
The Senior Product Owner is responsible for the management and prioritization of the product backlog across multiple pods. The incumbent will work closely with Product Managers on program planning and road mapping. In addition, they will lead, mentor, and lend their expertise directly to Product Owners on the team. All candidates must be comfortable working in a high paced, high energy, collaborative environment.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and prioritize the day-to-day backlog of user stories
- Works as a primary point of contact on story elaboration, grooming, and story acceptance
- Collaborate with quality assurance, designers, and developers to ensure stories meet the definition of done
- Coordinate with other Product Owners and Product Managers to ensure dependencies are accounted for and enablers are properly prioritized
- Work with Product Managers on Program Increment planning and road mapping
- Communicate across various workstreams and stakeholders outside of the Agile development team
- Guide junior Product Owners on story elaboration, grooming, and story acceptance
- Support initiatives for new ways of working together using new processes and tools; be a change agent for your peers.
- Create successful relationships with business and be a trusted point person on issues and aspects related to IT
- Provide management with economic impact and compliance issues surrounding key business decisions including Business Cases where required
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of analyst experience
- Demonstrable ability to identify and document solutions to complex problems
- Strong management, organizational and planning skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience with airline airport operations a plus, but not required
- Prior experience with quality assurance a plus, but not required
- Airline or travel industry experience a plus, but not required
- Amadeus Altea Suite (JFE/ARD web) and/or Computer Reservation System experience a plus, but not required
Conditions of Employment:
- Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest, at the time any offer of employment is made and seeking any required work permits/visas or other authorizations which may be required is the sole responsibility of the candidates applying for this position.
Linguistic Requirements
Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.
Diversity and Inclusion
Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.
Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.