Product Owner
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About the Role
WestJet is seeking a Product Owner to own the vision, roadmap, and delivery of ServiceNow capabilities. You will bridge business stakeholders and delivery teams, prioritize backlogs, and ensure measurable value.
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Responsibilities
- Define and own the vision, roadmap, and strategy for operational data products and underlying data stores
- Define and monitor product success metrics including data quality, availability, latency, adoption, and downstream business impact
- Gather, analyze, and refine business requirements, translating them into product outcomes, roadmap priorities, and backlog decisions
- Partner with data engineers, architecture, governance, and enablement teams to evolve operational data models and deliver scalable solutions
- Establish and maintain data contracts, schema evolution practices, and stewardship of operational data entities
- Define service expectations for data products including availability, freshness, reliability, and recovery standards
- Enable trusted self service access to operational data and ensure data products support advanced analytics, ML, and AI use cases
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, or related field
- 5+ years of experience, including at least 3 years as a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, or similar role
- Strong understanding of operational business processes within airline operations or similarly complex environments
- Working knowledge of modern cloud based data technologies (Azure, Snowflake, Databricks)
- Strong technical understanding of data modeling concepts
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills
- Experience working within Agile product delivery environments
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Why WestJet
- WestJet is one of Canada's most admired corporate cultures, aiming for the highest standards of service and success.
- The Product Owner is responsible for the successful delivery of the roadmap, prioritization and business outcomes of a defined ServiceNow capability area.
Key Deliverables Include
- Define and own the vision, roadmap, and strategy for operational data products and underlying data stores.
- Define and monitor product success metrics including data quality, availability, latency, adoption, and downstream business impact.
- Gather, analyze, and refine business requirements, translating them into product outcomes, roadmap priorities, and backlog decisions.
- Partner with data engineers, architecture, governance, and enablement teams to evolve operational data models and deliver scalable solutions.
- Establish and maintain data contracts, schema evolution practices, and stewardship of operational data entities.
- Define service expectations for data products including availability, freshness, reliability, and recovery standards.
- Enable trusted self service access to operational data and ensure data products support advanced analytics, ML, and AI use cases.
Experience And Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience, including at least three years as a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, or similar role.
- Strong understanding of operational business processes within airline operations or similarly complex environments.
- Working knowledge of modern cloud based data technologies (Azure, Snowflake, Databricks).
- Strong technical understanding of data modeling concepts.
- Understanding of streaming data concepts, ingestion patterns, transformation pipelines.
- Ability to understand data consumer needs and translate them into scalable data products.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills.
- Strong analytical and outcome oriented mindset.
- Experience working within Agile product delivery environments.
The Benefits Of Being a WestJetter
- A fun and friendly culture with colleagues who work together to win.
- Travel privileges for you and your family, effective from your start date.
- Savings and Benefit programs that are flexible to meet your specific needs.
About WestJet Group Of Companies
- WestJet pioneered low cost travel in Canada, cutting airfares in half and increasing the flying population by more than 50%.
- Since the Sunwing Airlines integration in 2025, more than 15,000 WestJetters support nearly 200 aircraft and connect guests to over 100 destinations.
- The WestJet Group includes WestJet Airlines, WestJet Encore and Sunwing Vacations Group.
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