Senior Product Owner AI-Enabled Enterprise Solutions Dealer Strategy

Honda Canada is seeking a Senior Product Owner to drive the delivery of enterprise IT solutions while actively enabling AI assisted and intelligent automation initiatives.

This role acts as the primary bridge between business stakeholders IT delivery teams and AI/data partners ensuring solutions are well defined prioritized governed and aligned to business outcomes. The role spans traditional enterprise application delivery as well as emerging Copilot style AI enabled and agent assisted workflows.

The ideal candidate combines strong business analysis and product ownership fundamentals with a practical understanding of how AI can augment decision making reduce manual effort and modernize enterprise processes.

1. Product Ownership & Enterprise Application Delivery

• Own and manage the product vision roadmap and backlog for assigned enterprise IT initiatives across business domains.
• Elicit and refine business requirements through workshops interviews and process reviews.
• Translate business needs into epics features user stories and acceptance criteria using enterprise tools (e.g. Jira Confluence).
• Document business processes system flows and functional logic using clear diagrams and narratives (e.g. Lucid).
• Assess enterprise systems endtoend from user experience through integrations data flows and downstream impacts.
• Balance business value technical feasibility regulatory obligations and delivery risk.
• Support Agile waterfall and hybrid delivery models including formal governance and design documentation where required.
• Write and execute functional test cases and support user and business acceptance testing.

2. AI & Intelligent Automation Opportunity Identification

• Analyze business processes to identify where AI Copilotstyle tools automation or agentbased solutions can reduce manual effort and improve outcomes.
• Identify repetitive rulesbased or informationheavy activities suitable for AI augmentation or automation.
• Partner with stakeholders to frame AI opportunities in measurable business terms (e.g. productivity improvement cycle time reduction decision support).
• Leverage AI tools (e.g. Copilot promptbased assistants) to support requirements analysis documentation ideation and early solution exploration.
• Identify decision points where AI can act as decision support or a semiautonomous digital teammate with clear human oversight.

3. AI Requirements & Delivery Enablement

• Elicit and define requirements for AIenabled initiatives including:
  • Business objectives and success criteria
  • User interaction models (humanintheloop vs. automation)
  • Inputs outputs decision boundaries and escalation rules
• Translate business needs into AIready user stories acceptance criteria and prompt or logic descriptions suitable for AI or agentbased implementations.
• Identify and document data requirements for AI use cases (source systems data quality metadata access constraints) in collaboration with SMEs and data teams.
• Work iteratively with technical and AI teams to validate feasibility refine scope and adjust requirements based on risk and complexity.
• Support testing and validation of AI outputs including quality accuracy explainability and exception handling.

4. AI Governance Risk & Responsible Use

• Ensure AIenabled features are appropriately governed transparent and aligned with enterprise AI data and security policies.
• Capture and maintain AI usecase documentation (purpose scope data inputs user impacts controls) to support governance and audit needs.
• Identify and factor in ethical legal data privacy and compliance considerations when defining AI requirements.
• Collaborate with governance legal risk and data teams to support AI approval lifecycle management and traceability.

5. Stakeholder Management & Change Enablement

• Serve as the primary point of contact between business IT vendors and AI/data teams.
• Facilitate alignment on scope priorities risks dependencies and outcomes.
• Translate complex technical and AI concepts into clear businessfocused language.
• Support change management and adoption by clearly defining how AIenabled capabilities fit into daily workflows and decisionmaking.
• Contribute to improving overall AI literacy through documentation walkthroughs and practical examples.

• 46 years of experience in Business Systems Analysis Product Ownership or IT delivery in an enterprise environment.
• Strong experience delivering enterprise applications using Agile waterfall or hybrid methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience writing clear requirements user stories process flows and acceptance criteria.
• Practical working knowledge of AI automation analytics and Copilotstyle tools (no model development required).
• Strong stakeholder management communication and facilitation skills.
• Handson experience with Jira Confluence and Lucid (required).

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Experience supporting AIenabled automation or intelligent workflow initiatives.
• Familiarity with agentbased automation or advanced workflow orchestration concepts.
• Experience in domains such as automotive finance sales contact center or technical operations.
• Exposure to KepnerTregoe Lean Six Sigma or process reengineering methodologies.
• Relevant certifications (CSPO SAFe POPM PMP or equivalent).

The salary range for this position is $94750 - $112516 annually. Individual salaries within this range are determined by a variety of job-related factors including education experience knowledge and skill set.

This is an on-site with occasional work-from-home position that requires employees to work on-site four days per week with the opportunity to work-from-home one day per week (with a dedicated workspace at the assigned company office).

This posting is for an existing vacancy that Honda Canada Inc. is actively seeking to fill.

Honda Canada Inc. does not use artificial intelligence (AI) in its recruitment or candidate selection processes.

Honda Canada Inc. is committed to providing accommodations during the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities upon request. Accommodations will take into account the applicants accessibility needs. If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process please email Human Resources at or call .