Product Owner I

This role is eligible for a discretionary variable compensation award that considers business and individual performance. TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs. As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

The Product Owner I is responsible to ensure that a development team (pod) is creating value for the organization through the delivery of customer-focused product increments. This entails aligning with other Product Owners and senior management to follow a product vision, creating and maintaining a prioritized product backlog, managing delivery blockers, continuously assessing customer feedback. The Product Owner I should always be considering how to maximize value, assessing how the product or the delivery process can be continuously improved, contributes to a positive work environment and ensures that work embodies the Agile principles of transparency, collaboration and engagement. CUSTOMER Partner with management to support the delivery of a product vision In alignment with the product vision, create and maintain a product backlog and continuously re-prioritize user stories that will provide the most customer or end user value Continuously align with senior management on the product delivery roadmap, defined Minimum Marketable Features or Minimum Viable Products and release cadence Review performance analytics; recommend and champion strategies to enhance the customer or end user product experience Participate in scrum or Kanban events (e.g. stand-ups, retrospectives), express new ideas for improving product value or delivery efficiency, sharing with leadership as appropriate Proactively engage established business process partners to ensure customers or end users are prepared for application changes and establish Day 2 processes Create a value-focused product backlog and continuously iterate, ensuring there are user stories scoped and prioritized Provide user story design, development and completion oversight; accepting / rejecting user stories based on the agreed upon Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria Manage delivery initiatives and oversee development team (pod) backlogs Proactively raise issues that impede the efficient delivery of customer-focused increments Responsible for defect management and prioritization SHAREHOLDER Adhere to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to activities for own business area / journey Ensure on-going strategic alignment with senior management, providing feedback as appropriate Consider development team and stakeholder feedback in backlog management, facilitating conversations with multiple stakeholders representing competing priorities Understand the internal business and technical environment, proactively defining, aligning or integrating with relevant stakeholders, shared services control groups (or platform as appropriate Lead the submission and discussion on the Quarterly Business Review, with respect to their product Proactively manage business stakeholders to obtain inputs needed for product development in a timely manner Monitor the regulatory environment and partner with the senior management to consider changes to product strategy as needed Actively coordinate and engage in risk, quality