Product Owner

The Role 
The Product Owner, Services is embedded in a cross-functional Product Team and fulfills the 
primary accountabilities outlined below for client-sponsored projects.  
• Defining and communicating the requirements and business value in collaboration with 
the client, solution engineering and other stakeholders; and documenting those 
requirements in a Product Requirements Document and Statement of Work. 
The Product Owner, Services plays an important role in the sale and scoping of service
based engagements. 
• Maintaining and prioritizing a sufficient backlog of ready-to-work backlog items to 
facilitate Sprint Planning  
• Accepting User Stories as being completed based on their established acceptance 
criteria and Definition of Done. In so doing, the Product Owner also fulfills a critical 
quality assurance function, focusing primarily on fitness for use. 
The Product Owner fulfills the following responsibilities for all assigned Products and Projects 
• Proactively participate in release and product increment planning 
• Contributing to the Product Roadmap to realize the goals of the Product Vision and 
Strategy. 
• Collaborating with Product Team members in writing stories, taking accountability for 
having a backlog of ready stories and prioritizing them for Sprint Planning 
• Collaborating with Scrum Masters to practice agility and capitalize on Scrum to maximize 
the product value and ensure continuous improvement.  
• Ensuring that User Stories are “ready” for development to start work according to an 
established "Definition of Ready" in collaboration with the Product Team 
• Ensuring each User Story has the necessary Acceptance Criteria defined in collaboration 
with the Product Team 
• Coordinating dependencies and activities with other Product Owners as necessary 
• Sharing market and client information and business insights with the Product Team to 
give context to the requirements to help ensure that the right problems are being solved 
by the team 
• Continuously developing relevant product domain expertise and sharing that expertise 
with the Product Team 
• Tracking progress towards Product Increment and Release objectives and 
communicating to the organization 
• Prioritizing customer-reported deficiencies, defects and enhancements as part of the 
Product Backlog. 
• Leading Program Increment (PI) planning activities for the Product Team  
• Participating in all Agile ceremonies with the Product Team, including daily standups, 
sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos and retrospectives. 
• Presenting the summary of work for the Product Team in Sprint Reviews and inviting 
appropriate stakeholders to give feedback. 
• Understanding the Product Vision and Product Strategy and articulating it to the Product 
Team 
• Reviewing and contributing to the user and technical guides to ensure that they are 
updated and completed to coincide with Release milestones, and ensures that all 
product documentation follows corporate standards and practices 
• Preparing product release documentation 
• Preparation of product collateral to ensure relevance and accuracy 
• Representing the voice of the customer within the Product Team to ensure that solutions 
are built to deliver value to the customer 
• Continuously building and maintaining productive relationships with customers 
The Successful Candidate 
Your Formal Qualifications 
• A minimum of 2 years of industry experience as a Product Owner in an Agile software 
development environment 
• Demonstrable understanding of Agile product management principles with Scrum 
• Working knowledge of the Atlassian suite (Jira & Confluence) or similar tools 
• CSPO certification or equivalent work experience 
• Working knowledge of SQL 
• Working knowledge of APIs 
• Working knowledge and experience using AI tools, including 
ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/Figma Make to create Product Artifacts 
• A business or technical degree 
• Professional proficiency in English and Spanish 
Your Proven Qualities 
• Learning agility - the ability to quickly adapt to new business domains and technical 
concepts and apply them in delivering value 
• Leadership - proven ability to lead a high-performance team and deliver in a fast-paced 
and dynamic environment 
• Collaboration - able to work collaboratively in a team-of-teams development 
environment 
• Communication - able to clearly and concisely communicate in verbal and written form 
to both internal and customer stakeholders, with emphasis on understanding the 
customer's perspective 
• Organization - being very consistent and structured in managing information, 
documentation, agile boards and other artifacts produced 
Extras You Might Offer As Tiebreakers 
• Experience working as an agile Product Owner in a professional services organization, 
delivering software development solutions for clients 
• Experience working in WealthTech, FinTech or Enterprise software 
• Knowledge of the different wealth management services (advisory, discretionary, etc.) 
• Demonstrated experience moving into new business domains and quickly adapting 
• Experience trading stocks or making personal investment decisions 
The Work Environment 
• This opportunity is offered at one of our offices: Toronto, Canada, or Madrid, Spain. We 
are currently working in a hybrid environment, with 3 days in the office. 
• Occasional travel to client offices may be required. 
At Univeris, we embrace diversity and inclusion.  We welcome applications from qualified 
individuals from all backgrounds. 
Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process may e-mail a 
request to [email protected]. 
We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position.  Only those selected for an 
interview will be contacted.