Reference No. R2877240

Position Title: Product Owner

Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid - 3 days per week onsite - required.

About The Job

Ready to push the limits of what's possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.

We're looking for a Product Owner to drive the discovery, delivery, and continuous improvement of a connected suite of digital portfolio products. You'll work at the intersection of user needs, data, and organizational strategy — defining problems worth solving, shaping measurable outcome-based goals, and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver real value. This is a hands-on role for someone who communicates with clarity, thrives in ambiguity, and knows how to keep a team moving in the right direction.

About Sanofi

We're an R&D-driven;, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people's lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system - and innovative pipeline - enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives.

Main Responsibilities

- Own Product Outcomes and Value

You are accountable for defining, pursuing and validating outcomes that create tangible user and business value.

- Define data-as-a-product goals and measurable success metrics tied to user behavior and business value.
- Translate ambiguous problems into measurable outcomes, using user insights and data rather than assumptions




- Connect day-to-day delivery with long-term value through outcome-oriented sprint goals.
- Track value metrics post-release, interpret real user behavior (not just delivery velocity), and use cloud data platform and GenAI insights to adapt direction.

You are accountable for reducing uncertainty and ambiguity through continuous discovery.

- Lead the product trio (Product Owner, Strategy, and Engineering) in dual-track discovery and delivery.
- Frame hypotheses and assumptions; set a learning goal for every sprint.
- Use interviews, journey mapping and assumption testing to understand what is worth solving.
- Run experiments to validate ideas before committing engineering effort.
- Prioritize Based on Value, Learning and Opportunity Cost

You are accountable for prioritization decisions that optimize value and flow.

- Own and reorder the backlog based on evidence and impact, not urgency or pressure.
- Balance value, feasibility, risk and learning.
- Filter out noise, protect team focus, and say "no" or "not yet" with clear rationale.

You are accountable for keeping business vision and user needs at the center of decisions.

- Address user problems and needs within the data mesh approach.
- Translate business vision into epics, features and user stories.
- Use story mapping, journey mapping, conceptual data models,



data flow diagrams and collaborative design sessions to align teams on the why before the how.
- Make dependencies, trade-offs and priorities visible across the team.

You are accountable for alignment, trust and clarity across stakeholders.

- Work closely with business SMEs, leadership, compliance, tech, design and vendors; involve them in discovery, testing and co-creation.
- Share vision, learnings and Progress openly; use storytelling and evidence to frame decisions.
- Challenge assumptions respectfully, act as a thought partner and key opinion leader, and manage expectations without becoming a proxy
- Drive alignment and decisions across internal teams and vendors, and move programs forward without formal authority.
- Shape lessons learned, product sustainment and cross-team collaboration structures.

You are accountable for shaping and validating product direction.

- Co-create the product vision aligned with product and business strategy.
- Break strategy into testable product bets along quarterly planning.
- Oversee strategic product investment, ensuring the right resource.

You are accountable for driving user adoption of current releases.

- Prepare and run end‑user training.
- Coordinate rollout communications.
- Provide hypercare after releases.
- Build lightweight support assets (how-tos, walkthroughs, FAQs).
- Turn user feedback into actionable improvements and measurable adoption gains.

About You

Education and Experience (Required)

- Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline,

📌 Product Owner (Toronto)
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