Senior Product Owner

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2 Locations
Remote or Hybrid
120K-155K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Financial Services
First-of-its kind AI technology powering the future of alternative investments
The Role
As a Senior Product Owner, you'll manage backlogs, define user stories, work with teams on execution, and drive product quality in software delivery.
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COMPANY: Canoe Intelligence
WEBSITE: https://canoeintelligence.com/
TITLE: Senior Product Owner
LOCATION: Hybrid in New York or Jacksonville, or remote within the US
SALARY: $120,000 - $155,000 (based on NYC, will be adjusted for geo)
The Role:
We're looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Product Owner to serve as the execution leader for critical projects, product level enhancements, and defect remediation. This role demands mastery of Agile practices, exceptional backlog management, and the ability to drive multiple dedicated development teams toward timely, high-quality delivery. You will be the tactical powerhouse ensuring our product vision is translated into working software.
The Senior Product Owner is the definitive authority on the day-to-day execution of the development process. You will focus intensely on maximizing the flow of value delivered by the development teams, managing cross-team dependencies, and ensuring technical details and acceptance criteria are flawless.
What You'll Do:
  • Backlog Management
    • Own, prioritize and refine the product backlog for multiple teams, ensuring items are clearly defined, detailed, and ordered to maximize business value.
  • Detailed Story Writing
    • Write exceptionally clear, concise, and detailed epic specs user stories and acceptance criteria for complex features, leaving no ambiguity for the development teams.
  • Technical Alignment
    • Work closely with technical leads and architects to understand technical constraints, resource requirements, and prioritization of features against technical debt.
  • Acceptance and Quality
    • Be the sole decision maker for accepting or rejecting product level enhancements, holding the team accountable for meeting the definition of done and high-quality standard before any release.
  • Agile Team Facilitation
    • Partner with engineers to define clear, achievable goals and lead all key ceremonies to maintain team focus, momentum, and alignment.
    • Monitor key metrics and work with team to continuously identify and remove execution impediments and bottlenecks.
  • Product Partnership
    • Work closely with Product Managers to understand strategy and bring enhancements to life from the ground up.

What We're Looking For:
  • 6-10 years of dedicated experience as a Product Owner in a fast-paced, high-execution environment, specifically managing complex software products.
  • Master-level understanding and practical application of Agile/Scrum principles; proven ability to drive a team's day-to-day execution effectively.
  • Exceptional attention to detail in writing User Stories and Acceptance Criteria; a demonstrated obsession with quality and clear documentation.
  • Strong background or foundational knowledge in software development processes, system integrations, and data flows to effectively guide technical decision-making.
  • Proven ability to communicate technical details and complex trade-offs clearly and precisely to engineering teams.
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) certification is highly preferred.

What You'll Get:
  • Medical, dental, vision benefits
  • Flexible PTO
  • 401(k)
  • Flexible work from home policy
  • Home office stipend
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Gym/Wifi reimbursement
  • Education assistance
  • Parental Leave

Our Values:
  • Client First -> Listen, and deliver client-centric solutions
  • Be An Owner -> Take initiative, improve situations, drive positive outcomes
  • Excellence -> Always set the highest standard for yourself and others
  • Win Together -> 1 + 1 = 3

Who We Are:
Canoe is reimagining alternative investment data processes for hundreds of leading institutional investors, capital allocators, asset servicing firms and wealth managers. By combining industry expertise with the most sophisticated data capture technologies, Canoe's technology automates the highly-frustrating, time-consuming, and costly manual workflows related to alternative investment document and data management, extraction and delivery. With Canoe, clients can refocus capital and human resources on business performance and growth, increase efficiency, and gain deeper access to their data. Canoe's AI-driven platform was developed in 2013 for Portage Partners LLC, a private investment firm.
Canoe is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
180 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Canoe offers first-of-its kind AI technology powering the future of alternative investments.

Canoe has reimagined the future of alternative investments with cloud-based, machine-learning technology for document collection, data extraction, and data science initiatives. We transform complex documents into actionable intelligence within seconds and empower allocators with tools to unlock new efficiencies for their business.

Since the beginning, we’ve maintained a focused, client-first approach to building and enhancing our technology and will continue to do so. By introducing automation to alternatives document collection and data management workflows, institutional investors, wealth managers, and general partners are seeing dramatic improvements in data accuracy and access, team efficiency, and client satisfaction.

Why Work With Us

At Canoe, we look for people who are open-minded, willing to roll up their sleeves, and constantly ask questions. We believe that diverse backgrounds and perspectives foster conversation and innovation, and collaborate to make each other better. Canoe's success is intertwined with each individual's success, which is why we focus on the team.

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Canoe Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Depending on role, employees may be hybrid in-office in NYC, London, or Jacksonville, or fully remote.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
HQNew York, NY
Jacksonville, FL
London, GB
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