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.

The Senior Product Owner is responsible for the management and prioritization of product backlog for multiple pods within a product increment.  The incumbent will work closely with product managers to program planning and road mapping.  In addition, they will lead, mentor, and lend their expertise directly to product owners on the team.

Responsibilities:

• Manage, and prioritize the day-to-day backlog of user stories for multiple pods within a PI (product increment or 3 sprints)
  
• Guide Product Owners on story elaboration, grooming, and story acceptance.
  
• Work with Product Managers on program planning and roadmap
  
• Communicate across various workstreams and stakeholders outside of the Agile development team 
  
• Participate in all pod level agile ceremonies
  
• Coordinate with other Product owners and Product managers to ensure dependencies are accounted for and enablers are properly prioritized 
  
• Act as a mentor for junior Product Owners and a change agent for your peers
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of delivering digital commerce experiences.
  
• 2+ years of experience working in an Agile/continuous delivery model
  
• Demonstrable ability to identify and document solutions to complex problems
  
• Strong management, organizational and planning skills
  
• Solid communication skills
  
• Enjoys coaching and mentoring 
  
• Advanced understanding of web and mobile technologies
  
• Prior experience with quality assurance a plus, but not required
  
• Airline or travel industry experience a plus, but not required
  
• Coding or design 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.
  
• Mandatory Covid-19 Vaccination Required
  

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.