Product Owner

LandSure Systems Ltd. (LandSure) is looking to hire a Product Owner to join our Products division!

Who we are

LandSure is a subsidiary of the Land Title and Survey Authority of BC (LTSA), a publicly accountable, statutory corporation that manages BC's land title and survey systems. Our team of nearly 100 employees supports the LTSA through information system consulting services, project management, customer support, and communications.

We believe in a hybrid of remote and in-office work and know you'll love our downtown Vancouver office as much as we do! Our employees can work either entirely in the office, or a hybrid of both remote and in-office. Therefore, applicants must currently live in British Columbia or have plans to relocate to British Columbia.

Benefits include 3 weeks vacation to start, a generous bonus program, and a $750 health spending account.

What you'll do

As Product Owner your focus will be to help build on this foundation by delivering value to our customers via innovative registry solutions products and services supporting land-related solutions in the public interest.

Reporting to the Product Team Manager and as an integral part of the product management team, you will be responsible for ensuring that communication and processes are flowing smoothly within the development team and that client needs are at the center as you help build the product roadmap. Your excellent communication skills will enable you to thrive at identifying user needs, gathering feature requests, coordinating sprints and managing releases within a cross-functional team.

Responsibilities include

• Lead a collaborative needs gathering process with customers to elicit and document business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Author high quality user stories and acceptance criteria and work with others such as Architects, UX professionals and other product team members to do the same.
• Own and maintain the product backlog by building, maintaining and prioritizing the team backlog of user stories, defects and enablers with input from Product Managers, Architects and other stakeholders.
• Review, reprioritize and communicate story details to facilitate effective sprint planning and management of dependencies between stories and teams.
• Track and communicate progress on all requirements associated with releases.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager to help plan, prioritize and scope the product roadmap.
• Provide ongoing guidance and support for scrum ceremonies and offer key inputs based on the performance of previous sprints and challenges experienced.
• Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to facilitate team demos.
• Actively participate, support, and continually improve each release through all release activities include sell off, acceptance testing and all associated formal testing.
• Lead the resolution of key customer and stakeholder concerns and escalations.
• Ensure that post operations activities and action items are completed including final formal test/operations, smoke testing, etc.
• Work with the Technical Lead to accept development user stories as complete based on the definition of done.
• Work closely with the Release Manager and Operations to ensure release notes are created, required training is performed, and communications are supported.

We encourage you to apply if you have

Education and Experience

• A technical or business degree in a related field with 4-5 years of experience delivering products leveraging geospatial technology
• Experience with SaaS, regulated environments, agile development, and managing multiple stakeholders would be ideal
• Experience with geomatics, surveying, land development or legal conveyancing processes would be an asset
• Demonstrated ability to effectively translate business requirements into technical/functional requirements and launching new features into production
• Extensive understanding of the development cycle, agile frameworks, and how to manage a development sprint
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to adapt to multiple stakeholders and clients

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem‑solving abilities
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present ideas in user‑friendly language
• A self‑starter with the ability to work in a fast‑paced, team‑oriented, collaborative environment
• Strong knowledge of Jira and Confluence
• Experience delivering information technology solutions bridging customer segments, including geospatial services an asset
• Understanding of British Columbia’s real property, survey and/or land development sectors and systems an asset
• Knowledge of business and systems deployments in the public sector would be an asset.

We are dedicated to transparency in our hiring process. $83,000 - $103,800 annually, reflects a reasonable expectation for pay for the position depending on qualifications and experience. This compensation is specific to the role within our organization and takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to job‑related skills, experience and relevant training or education, business and organizational needs.

We are committed to fostering a safe, respectful, and inclusive workplace where all employees can share their diverse views, skills and backgrounds. Valuing employee diversity strengthens workplace trust and enhances our ability to innovate in service of our customers and partners. Our hiring practices reflect this and we are committed to ensuring that our workforce reflects where we live and work.

If you require accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada.

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