Product Owner (Assessments)

Are you an innovator who has experience communicating business needs and leading teams through the launch of new technology products? Are you looking for an opportunity to lead important business initiatives in a dynamic organization? If so, this position may be right for you! The Assessments and Finance division is looking for a Product Owner to be the voice in communicating our business objectives, values, and needs to development teams across the organization to ensure clear understanding of business benefits and impacts of initiatives.

Under direction of the Senior Manager, Business Product Management - Assessments, the Product Owner will align stakeholders on the lifecycle and vision of products, while working directly with technical teams in an agile environment. The Product Owner builds and maintains excellent relationships internally and externally at all levels of the organization, partnering closely with key stakeholders while ensuring that confidential and sensitive management information related to WorkSafeBC's operations are handled with discretion and tact.

How you'll make a difference: You'll guide the strategies that ensure we best serve B.C.'s workers and employers.

This is a temporary role for 12-month duration with the possibility of extension.

Where you'll work
At WorkSafeBC, we offer a hybrid work model that combines working remotely, and in our offices based on the operational needs of the position.

As a Product Owner , you will:

• Ensure that DevOps Pods are able to satisfy current and projected business requirements.
• Represent the business in DevOps pods in the design, modification, and implementation of business priorities including scoping, building and prioritizing a backlog, weighing business priorities versus customer impacts and dividing the product backlog into themes and goals.
• Promote a service-oriented approach in responding to information requests, providing services, and maintaining contacts with external and internal stakeholders.
• Develop and deliver presentations to diverse groups including senior management.
• Participate in planning activities with the management team.

We're looking for someone who can:

• Encourage and lead positive change through creative problem-solving and strategic thinking.
• Promote teamwork, provide coaching and support to staff.
• Provide peer support to foster a supportive and healthy working environment within the department.
• Identify trends, problems and opportunities in relation to WorkSafeBC processes.
• Always demonstrate and model safe behaviour and in accordance with WorkSafeBC's Corporate Safety, Health and Security policy.

Your experience and educational background

• A degree in Information Technology or Business Management plus a minimum of 5 years recent, related experience including experience in a leadership capacity.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Certified Product Manager (CPM)
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)

We'll consider an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Important to know
Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

• Confirm you're legally entitled to work in Canada.

WorkSafeBC's COVID-19 Employee Mandatory Vaccine Policy (the "Policy") is suspended effective January 9, 2023, however we reserve the right to re-implement it in response to changes in the public health landscape, including public health orders. We are committed to the protection, health, and safety of our employees and our Communicable Disease Prevention Program and related protocols remain in effect.

Who we are
At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We're honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.

What's it like to work at WorkSafeBC?
It's challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.

Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.

Learn more: Discover who we are .

Our benefits
As a member of our team, you'll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work - and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:

• Defined benefit pension plan that provides you with a lifetime monthly pension when you retire
• 4 weeks of vacation in your first year, with regular increases based on years of service
• Benefits package that includes customizable options for health care and dental benefits, additional days off, and a health care spending account
• Optional leave arrangements
• Development opportunities (tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and more)

Learn more: Find out what we offer .

Salary: $116,186-$141,166/annually

Want to apply?

• Applications are welcomed immediately; however, they must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. PST on the closing date.
• Please note that we will be starting assessments before the closing date.

We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. If you require accommodation during the assessment process, please email Recruitment Testing Accommodation (SM) when you submit your application.