AI Product Owner
Mississauga - Canada
Job Summary
Create value at TC Transcontinental.
At TC Transcontinental weve got it made and thats because of the expertise of our team.
We have been driving innovation since 1976.
Founded 50 years ago and 4000 employees strong Transcontinental Inc. (TSX: TCL.A TCL.B) known under the TC Transcontinental brand is a Canadian retail marketing services company Canadas largest printer and the Canadian leader in French-language educational publishing. Driven by the vision of a more informed educated and prosperous society TC Transcontinental propels its clients success across the retail education book and information industries. With agility creativity and boldness we design and deliver innovative high-value products and services.
We are looking for an AI Product Owner to lead the evolution of our next-generation Retail Promotion & Intelligence platforms.
This position is currently open and reflects a new position created to support organizational growth
The salary range for this position is $80000 to $95000 per year commensurate with experience education and internal equity. This range is provided to ensure clarity and promote equitable access to employment opportunities.
When your actions lead to success:
Backlog Ownership A Quarter of High-Quality Work Always Ready
- Maintain a fully groomed prioritized backlog 2 sprints ahead at all times
- Keep a healthy quarter-worth of decomposed sprint-ready stories in the pipeline
- Prioritize every backlog item by ROI and business impact no ambiguity in rank
- Ensure full traceability: user story feature business outcome
- Structure stories for scalability across banners and retail clients
Sprint Performance & KPI Management
- Define and track core scrum metrics every sprint:
- Sprint velocity forecasted and actuals tracked across quarters
- Story completion rate measured against committed scope
- Defect leakage identified per sprint trended over time
- Feature adoption reported per release to leadership
- Run structured post-sprint reviews: value delivered ROI achieved blockers resolved
- Communicate clear quantified sprint outcomes to VPs SVPs and business leaders
AI & Human-in-the-Loop Product Decisions
- Design and drive HITL workflows balancing AI automation with human oversight
- Partner with Analytics teams to build dashboards tracking: cycle time reduction error rates campaign revenue uplift and digital engagement
- Own ROI tracking per sprint and per feature release
Customer-Centric Discovery & Story Writing
- Lead customer discovery with merchandising promo and marketing teams at top North American retailers
- Translate client insights into crisp outcome-driven user stories with clear acceptance criteria and definition of done
- Drive affinity mapping and problem decomposition sessions
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Bridge strategy and execution across Engineering Data & Analytics UX/UI and business stakeholders
- Ensure development teams are continuously fed well-defined high-quality stories at optimal capacity
- Act as the single point of accountability between product vision and sprint delivery
When your expertise drives us:
- 3-7 years in Product Ownership or Product Management
- Retail eCommerce Promotions or MarTech platforms
- KPI definition and sprint-level ROI tracking
- Power BI Tableau or equivalent dashboards
- Deep Scrum/Kanban execution
- Affinity mapping and story decomposition
- Acceptance criteria and definition of done
- Sprint planning grooming and retrospectives
- Backlog management tools (Jira Azure DevOps etc.)
- Translate technical concepts into business language
- Strong stakeholder management and influence
When benefits really help you live better:
We offer a comprehensive and flexible benefits package designed to support your well-being and help you thriveat work and at home. Our offerings include:
- Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives and retirement savings plans with company match
- Customizable group benefits including health dental life disability and travel insurance
- Paid time off
- Employee perks such as discounts on insurance wireless plans travel and more
- Career development opportunities
- A dynamic inclusive work environment where your voice matters and your growth is supported
EEO
TC Transcontinental is committed to fair transparent and equitable hiring practices. We disclose that no artificial intelligence (AI) tools or automated decision-making systems are used in our recruitment or selection process.
TC Transcontinental is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse inclusive and accessible workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race color religion sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation age national origin disability veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws in the jurisdictions where we operate.
We are also committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment and work environmentpromoting dignity independence integration and equal opportunity for all including persons with disabilities. Accommodations including alternative formats will be made available for all parts of the recruitment and selection process. For more information or to request an accommodation please contact
Send us your application. Create something with TC Transcontinental.
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