Product Owner at Agility PR Solutions in Ottawa, Ontario, CA

About the Role

Reporting to the Vice President of Product Development, the Product Owner is responsible for understanding market and customer needs and translating them into clear and actionable items for our Engineering team.  Agility is focussed on building production-grade agentic workflows and AI-driven applications. You will play a key role in shaping how intelligent agents operate across our platform—driving automation, insight generation, and decision intelligence for PR professionals.

You will act as a customer advocate, and using your strong sense of leadership, you will work collaboratively with our Agile software development team and other stakeholders, including Sales Enablement, Customer Success, Channel Partnerships, and our leadership team to create the best products in our industry. You will be responsible for defining requirements and evaluating the work generated by the software engineering team to develop a product that delivers valuable business solutions to our clients and helps establish our company as the technology leader in the industry.

What you’ll do

• Serve as the voice of the client with our Agile software development team.

• Develop scope and define backlog items (epics/features/user stories) that guide the Agile software development team.

• Solve product-related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments.

• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.

• Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product.

• Help prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on initiatives with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.

• Work with Marketing to help articulate the value and value proposition for our products.

• Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams.

What You'll Bring

• 2+ years as a Product Owner in an Agile environment.

• You possess a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent experience).

• Experience working with SaaS products and API integrations.

• Demonstrated experience using data analytics, or other quantitative techniques to evaluate and guide product decisions.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills that allow you to clearly communicate to both external users, and internal team members.

• Experience with both JIRA and Confluence.

• You are an avid problem solver - you will find a way through any challenge and think of hybrid solutions that meet stakeholder needs.

• You are a leader/self-starter with vital project planning and organization skills.

• You are data drive and use it as part of your decision-making process.

• You're curious and take an experimental approach to your work, collect feedback at every step and gather customer data to validate, qualify, and refine your work.

• Experience within PR Software and Newswire industry is an asset

Why You'll Love It Here

• Fully remote work environment
• Collaborative culture – and key tools enabling it
• Competitive compensation package
• Health, Dental & Vision benefits
• RRSP matching
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Career Development & Progression opportunities
• Paid Vacation & Personal Days; and Sick days
• Flex Fridays in Summer, Week off between Christmas and New Years'
• No Meetings Fridays

Compensation for this role is expected to fall within the range of $90,000-120,000 annually. The final offer will reflect each candidate’s experience, skills, and internal equity.
This is for a new position.

AI Usage

We use technology to make hiring smarter, faster, and more personal, never less human. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools help us manage applications efficiently and highlight qualifications that align with each role, allowing our recruiters to focus more on meaningful conversations with candidates.
AI does not make hiring decisions at Agility. Every decision is made by people, our hiring managers and recruitment professionals, who are trained to apply sound judgment and equitable practices at every stage.
We believe technology exists to amplify human insight, not replace it. That belief shapes how we build relationships, tell stories, and grow our teams.

At Agility, we strive every day to build a more inclusive work environment and introduce tools that enable it. We strongly encourage applications from all people regardless of race, religion, gender, age, disability status or sexual orientation.

Even if you find yourself not checking all the boxes of our listed requirements but you are excited about this opportunity, we'd love to hear from you anyway. Our Talent Acquisition team will review your application for this role, and other potential role matches open now or in the future.

If, at any stage of the application process, you require accommodation owing to disability or a medical need, please let us know at careers@agilitypr.com for us to make appropriate arrangements.

Thank you for your time in reviewing this opportunity, and we hope to hear from you should you find this the right fit!