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About d1g1t
d1g1t is the industry’s first enterprise wealth management platform powered by institutional-grade analytics and risk management tools that allows firms to elevate the quality of their advice and demonstrate its value to clients. Through a single integrated solution that covers the entire advisory lifecycle, d1g1t provides wealth management firms with a whole new set of capabilities they’ve never had before. Headquartered in Toronto, the company was founded and is led by an experienced financial technology team who have developed leading enterprise portfolio systems for many of the world’s banks, institutional asset managers, hedge funds and regulators.

Job Summary
Reporting to the Product Manager, the Product Owner will help us build innovative and high-quality products that combine intuitive designs, advanced analytics, efficient workflows, and high-end system engineering. d1g1t product owners play a critical role in building next-generation wealth management solutions. As a Product Owner, you will own product development from conception to launch. To do so, you will collaborate with the product, financial engineering, software engineering, and client services departments to define and help execute the product vision.

Responsibilities

As the Product Owner, you play a pivotal role in helping us achieve our mission of transforming the wealth management industry. Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Collect and review client reporting requirements and translate them into work for the development team
• Write user stories, technical specs, define acceptance criteria, and maintain a prioritized backlog of epics, user stories, tasks, and technical debt based on feedback from various stakeholders
• Work with the report development team in an agile environment (Kanban) to deliver incremental value for our clients and the business
• Engage in day-to-day activities with the development team, such as attending daily scrum ceremonies, leading backlog grooming sessions, and participating in team retrospectives
• Maintain an understanding of industry and country regulations with regards to investor reporting
• Review the reporting roadmap and workflows and make recommendations how best to iterate, improve, and optimize
• Collaborate with the product manager and report development team to:
  • Review development requirements and ensure they are complete
  • Help the development team break down and scope development items
  • Groom the development backlog to ensure that it delivers the highest value
  • Track the development cycle and adjust priorities when required
  • Track metrics of the development progress to help guide product development
  • Perform quality assurance on development items and coordinate user
    acceptance testing with the development team and stakeholders.
    

d1g1t's Core Competencies:

• Technical Execution: proactive problem solver, persists when faced with ambiguity or uncertainty, analytical, and pays attention to the details.
• Ownership: takes initiative to identify problems with product/processes, leaves things better than how they found them, passionate about their work.
• Communication: provides context and clarity to their work, effectively escalates problems, provides transparency around status and priorities, expresses their views in a direct and professional manner.
• Leadership: works confidently with other functional areas, mentors other employees, proactively seeks and provides feedback, drives change and wants to make a difference.
• Emotional Intelligence: contributes to positive morale on the team, exhibits self awareness, and understands how their work impacts others, displays empathy to others.
• Business Acumen: entrepreneurial mindset, helps to shape functional area goals, constantly learning.
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field and/or product owner certification (i.e. CSPO, PSPO)
• 2+ years of professional experience in product management, finance, and/or technology. Experience with BI Tools an asset (i.e. SSRS, SQL).
• Experience working in an agile, start-up environment.
• Natural problem solver, enjoys figuring out complex problems in a focused, practical, creative, and efficient manner.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, comfortable with interacting with technical teams. Ability to work collaboratively with clients, using a communication style appropriate to the audience.
• Detail oriented with an appreciation for design
• Highly Determined, curious and eager to learn new technical concepts (development, finance, data analysis etc.)
• Comfortable with multi-tasking, context-switching, and handling a high volume of work

Perks of working at d1g1t:

• Excellent opportunity to join a fast-growing Fintech startup.
• Working in a culture of collaboration and innovation where your voice is valued and given importance.
• Competitive compensation package with on-target bonus and comprehensive healthcare benefits.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program
• Fitness and Wellness Credit
• Continuing Education Allowance
• Flexible hours and purpose driven hybrid-work policy.
• Ability to work abroad for up to 2 months in a year (some conditions apply).