Product Owner (Ontario)

Product Owner (Ontario)

29 Aug
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Accenture
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Ontario

29 Aug

Accenture

Ontario

We Are:
Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. As part of Accenture, we combine creativity, technology, and intelligence to deliver exceptional experiences that drive business outcomes. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content, and channel orchestration.

With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology, and intelligence. At Accenture Song, we believe in creating experiences that are human-centric, impactful, and sustainable. Visit us at: Accenture Song.

Digital Products create value for our clients, their employees, and their customers. We design and build impactful experiences fueled by technology that change the way people work and live. Our team collaborates cross-functionally across the US and Canada, leveraging expertise in product strategy, design, innovation, and delivery transformation at scale. By integrating design thinking, user-experience research, and impeccable development for native mobile, web, and embedded systems, we bring clarity to any omni-channel product vision.

You Are:
You're the voice of the customer. You own the backlog with clear rationale, lead sprint planning with cross-functional teams, provide leadership on small pieces of work, and begin supporting business casing.

The Work:
PRODUCT CRAFT

Leads sprint backlog readiness and planning with cross-functional teams, gaining alignment

Partners across business, design, and development, fostering collaboration and communication

Manages the product backlog with clear prioritization rationale

Establishes user-story definition and acceptance criteria for the product backlog

Facilitates trade-off decisions by balancing business need, customer experience, and technical feasibility

Plays an active role in agile ceremonies — discovery and framing, cross-platform coordination, stakeholder governance

Works to remove obstacles and blockers for the team





Supports and where applicable, drives value casing / business-case / KPI development

Feature writing and refinement

Applies AI to user-story drafting, backlog management, and prioritization; validates outputs

CLIENT AND CONSULTING

Manages client interactions confidently and professionally

Clearly articulates ideas, tradeoffs, and recommendations

Builds trust through reliability and problem-solving

Handles scope, feedback, and delivery with minimal oversight

Begins to mentor others on consulting behaviours

Uses evidence-based storytelling to align stakeholders and influence product decisions

Provides leadership on small pieces of work or initiatives

Drives clarity from ambiguous client asks; proposes ways to resolve bottlenecks and improve quality

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Supports pitches or proposals when directed

Contributes ideas, slides, or examples with guidance

Beginning to understand how projects are sold and scoped

Limited proactive involvement

TEAM AND TALENT

Participates positively in team culture

Open to feedback and collaboration

Actively mentors junior teammates

Contributes to a supportive, inclusive team workplace

Gives thoughtful feedback and supports team growth

Here’s What You’ll Need:

Minimum 2 years of experience with proven ability to drive and deliver a successful product roadmap in an Agile environment, including facilitating user-story mapping and product workshops

Minimum 1 year of experience writing features, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria in a product development environment

Minimum 1 year of experience working with clients to capture experience or technology nuances and enablers and translate them into actionable next steps

A minimum of a high school diploma or GED is required for this position





Demonstrated use of AI tools in day-to-day product work — user-story drafting, backlog management, prioritization, research synthesis — including the judgment to evaluate and validate AI-generated output rather than accept it at face value

English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders across Canada. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.

Must be eligible for Reliability Security clearance

Bonus Points If:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience

Solid understanding of product team roles and responsibilities within a full-scale product team

Extensive knowledge of product delivery models from inception to execution

Strong analytical, data-driven mindset that keeps the end user at the heart of product creation

Conflict management skills within planning and prioritization processes

Comfort in creating content from scratch to tell the product story

Proficiency in tools like JIRA, Rally, and Version One for tracking project scope

Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

Experience in SAFe, Scrum, Lean, and Kanban methodologies

Certification in Agile (POPM, APM, CSPO)

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here. Role Location Annual Salary Range British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $69,450 to $119,450

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📌 Product Owner (Ontario)
🏢 Accenture
📍 Ontario

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