Technical Product Owner in Montréal

Experience Level: Advanced: Minimum 7 years

Location: Montreal

Work Mode: Onsite (Day 1 onboarding onsite/in office presence 3x/week)

Responsibilities

• Lead PrepMe adoption as an accelerant for internal Proactive Risk Assessments and mock exams.
• Partner with risk, technology, audit, product, and management stakeholders to define use cases, requirements, workflows, reporting needs, and adoption success measures.
• Work hand-in-hand with the dedicated Scrum Master to refine priorities, user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint-ready work.
• Provide delivery governance over project-based consultants performing the bulk of development work, including clarifying requirements, adjusting priorities, reviewing deliverables, resolving blockers, and ensuring quality.
• Translate mock exam processes, technology risk expectations, and control requirements into product requirements, workflows, reporting logic, and operating procedures.
• Lead adoption and stakeholder engagement through presentations, executive briefings, live demos, pilots, training materials, communications, and feedback loops.
• Participate in Agile delivery activities, including planning, refinement, prioritization, showcases, retrospectives, and release readiness.
• Design, configure, test, and enhance low-code/no-code capabilities using Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, SharePoint, Teams, and Microsoft 365 integrations.
• Guide the evolution of PrepMe agent workflows, including Evidence Analysis, Q&A Assessment, and Executive Reporting, with a focus on usability, traceability, control alignment, and reporting quality.
• Support requirement-to-evidence mapping, scoring logic, assessment outputs, executive summaries, findings, recommendations, and remediation prioritization.
• Establish appropriate product controls for human review, output validation, quality assurance, access management, data handling, and change governance.

Requirements

• Experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Manager, or equivalent role delivering technology products in an Agile environment.
• Hands-on experience building or maintaining low-code/no-code solutions using Microsoft Power Platform.
• Working knowledge of Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, SharePoint, Teams, Microsoft 365 data sources, and enterprise low-code/no-code governance.
• Understanding of technology risk assessments, mock exams, audit preparation, evidence collection, issue identification, reporting, and remediation tracking.
• Ability to translate regulatory, control, technology risk, and operational requirements into product requirements, workflows, assessment logic, and reporting outputs.
• Experience overseeing consultants, vendors, or delivery partners, including reviewing outputs, redirecting work, resolving blockers, and ensuring deliverables meet expectations.
• Ability to develop user stories, acceptance criteria, prioritization inputs, dependencies, and release planning content in partnership with a Jira/backlog owner.
• Experience supporting product adoption through presentations, demos, pilots, training, stakeholder communications, and feedback management.
• Strong communication, analytical, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a global organization and drive execution across cross-functional teams.
• Experience supporting process and control activities, risk assessments, controls testing, governance requirements, gap assessment, remediation, compliance readiness, audit response, third-party risk management, and applied control frameworks.

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on experience conducting, supporting, or preparing for internal Proactive Risk Assessments, mock exams, audit readiness reviews, or regulatory exam preparation.
• Experience supporting readiness assessments for technology platforms, AI/GenAI solutions, cloud services, operational resilience, cybersecurity, infrastructure, or application development environments.
• Familiarity with technology risk and control frameworks, such as NIST, COBIT, FFIEC, DORA, ITIL, SDLC, operational resilience, model risk, or AI governance.
• Experience designing assessment scorecards, heatmaps, executive summaries, risk ratings, evidence inventories, questionnaire libraries, remediation dashboards, or management reporting.
• Experience with Microsoft Dataverse, Power BI, connectors, APIs, solution packaging, environment strategy, role-based access, data loss prevention policies, or Power Platform governance.
• Knowledge of agentic AI, prompt design, workflow orchestration, human-in-the-loop validation, output quality review, and responsible AI controls.
• Experience working with internal audit, compliance, risk management, governance, regulatory exam, or first-line control teams in financial services or another highly regulated environment.
• Experience moving a prototype or pilot product into broader adoption.
• Relevant certifications such as Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, Microsoft Power Platform certifications, Agile certifications, ITIL, CRISC, CISA, or related technology risk credentials.

This role is for an existing vacancy.