DescriptionJob Title:Product Owner Generation (Rotating Machines)
Location:Hybrid (Remote / Onsite at our office in Toronto Canada)
Company:Qualitrol (a Fortive company)
Why This is a Great Place to Work:It all starts with the people and the culture. You will love working with colleagues who have a genuine desire to innovate and solve complex problems. Our culture is one of continuous improvement striving to make the organization a little better than it was the day before. We ask the tough questions and push each other to be bold. This occurs in an environment that fosters authenticity and transparency. Qualitrol associates enjoy the autonomy breadth of responsibility and creativity that are part of a smaller entrepreneurial environment while leveraging resources best practices and career opportunities from a Fortune 500 company Fortive.
Our Engineering teams are vital to the success of our existing and emerging products and platforms. We are one of the largest and most trusted global providers of monitoring systems including sensors monitors and software within the power generation and energy industry. We help our customers to ensure grid reliability and the transition from scheduled to conditionbased maintenance practices.
Role Overview:We are seeking an Agile Product Owner with experience in the Energy industry to lead product development within our Power Generation Value Stream. This pivotal role involves close interaction with both internal and external stakeholders ensuring the alignment of product development with market needs and customer use cases. The Agile Product Owner will create manage and maintain the product backlog making critical and difficult prioritization decisions for the squads and the business and will be instrumental in developing use cases and multi generation product roadmaps that address end user pain points.
Key Responsibilities
- Enduser Problem Definition:Identify and articulate enduser pain points and expected end user experience throughout the life cycle of the product.
- User Personas:Deeply understand user personas their business workflows and pain points.
- Product Roadmap Development:Create and maintain comprehensive multigeneration product plans covering end user feature details.
- Requirement Gathering:Define and document product user stories.
- Backlog Management:Own the product backlog and prioritize features and enhancements for the development squads.
- Stakeholder Engagement:Collaborate with the Value Stream Leader and Product Marketing to set strategic priorities and launch successful products.
- Customer Advisory Councils:Establish and lead customer advisory councils in collaboration with the Value Stream Leader and Product Marketing teams to gather feedback and insights.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelors Degree in a Science or Engineering related field (or equivalent experience)
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and frameworks.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for stakeholder interaction.
- Experience in gaining the Voice of Customer (VOC).
- Ability to analyse market trends and user feedback.
- Experience in defining user personas developing product roadmaps and managing backlogs.
- Strong Strategic thinking and decisionmaking abilities.
- Certification in Agile methodologies (e.g. Certified Scrum Product Owner).
- Training can be provided to certify previous experience.
Preferred Skills/Experience
- Proven experience as an Agile Product Owner or similar role in product management.
- Handson experience in backlog management covering the full product lifecycle.
- Understanding of the power utility industry and the various monitoring players.
- Proficiency in Agile methodologies (Scrum Kanban) and backlog tools (Jira)
- Experience in distributed data acquisition substation automation grid monitoring or industrial IoT solutions.
- Knowledge of Rotating Machines (Generators) and a solid grasp of relevant monitoring products.
- Experience establishing customer panels and driving userdriven product enhancements.
- Experience in business case development.
- Experience going to Gemba mapping customer workflow and identifying use cases to deliver world class customer experience.
About Us
QUALITROL manufactures monitoring and protection devices for high value electrical assets and OEM manufacturing companies. Established in 1945 QUALITROL produces thousands of different types of products on demand and customized to meet our individual customers needs. We are the largest and most trusted global leader forpartial dischargemonitoring asset protection equipment and information products across power generation transmission and distribution. At Qualitrol we are redefining conditionbased monitoring.
We Are Fortive
Qualitrol Corp is a proud subsidiary ofFORTIVE; a global family of more than 20 industryleading industrial growth and technology companies united by a shared purpose: to make the world stronger safer and more effective by providing essential technology for the people who accelerate you get the excitement of a startup with the stability and predictability of an organization strongly grounded in its roots and with a proven track record of growth. There is no limit to what you can learn or the impact you can make: for you for us for growth.
Quick facts
- $7 billion in revenue $1 billion in operating profit and a market cap of $20 billion
- 20 operating companies
- Marketleading products in field instrumentation transportation sensing product realization automation and specialty and franchise distribution
- 26000 employees across 50 countries
- Culture based on Fortive Business System the cornerstone of our competitive advantage
What are the benefits and perks of working at Fortive
You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. You can view the benefits summary by visiting