Product Owner - Digital Enablement (AI)

Location: Toronto, Canada — hybrid, with 3 days per week onsite required

Salary: 158,200–208,200 CAD annually, including target bonus

Company

hirify.global is an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharmaceutical company developing medicines and vaccines, with a focus on improving health outcomes worldwide.

What you will do

• Define data-as-a-product goals, measurable success metrics, outcome-oriented sprint goals, and post-release value tracking.
• Lead continuous discovery with Product, Strategy, and Engineering through hypotheses, interviews, journey mapping, assumption testing, and experiments.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog based on value, learning, feasibility, risk, and opportunity cost.
• Translate business vision and user needs into epics, features, user stories, conceptual data models, and data flow diagrams.
• Align business SMEs, leadership, compliance, technology, design, and vendors while driving decisions without formal authority.
• Support adoption through training, rollout communications, post-release hypercare, support materials, and feedback-driven improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, with 5 years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager in cross-functional teams.
• Experience creating data-centric product visions, translating them into roadmaps, and managing products from framing through retirement with a data-as-a-product mindset.
• Experience defining product outcomes, slicing work, measuring real value, solving problems, and overcoming roadblocks in complex environments.
• Agile and Lean Startup skills, including story mapping, MVPs, hypothesis framing, assumption testing, and enterprise Agile framework implementation using Jira and Confluence.
• Functional and technical understanding of data platforms, including Snowflake, ETL, data analytics, AI/ML concepts, and semantic layers.
• Analytical and data-driven decision-making using metrics and market trends to guide decisions and predict product performance and demand.
• Cross-functional leadership, influencing, facilitation, executive communication, and the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Adaptability, an innovation mindset, and the ability to navigate ambiguity, respond to user feedback, and champion new approaches.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree with 5 years of experience.
• Experience in technology, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other regulated industries.
• Experience with enterprise workflows, data-heavy platforms, AI/LLM-based products, or GenAI in enterprise products.
• Knowledge of portfolio management, procurement, or ITSM systems.
• Background in digital transformation or enterprise data governance.
• Experience in global, matrixed organizations and prior development or prototyping experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work with healthcare and digital innovation teams on products with measurable impact.
• Supportive, future-focused environment with opportunities for promotion and international or lateral career moves.
• Rewards package, employee benefits, healthcare, prevention, and wellness programs.
• Equal-opportunity workplace with inclusion commitments and recruitment accommodations available upon request.