What you'll do

As the Automotive Digital Product Owner, you will play a lead role in driving the development and enhancement of Canadian Tire’s automotive digital products and services. You will be responsible for defining the product vision & roadmap, prioritizing features, and ensuring their successful delivery while aligning with business goals and customer needs. Your focus will be on creating exceptional user experiences, improving customer engagement, and driving revenue growth through digital channels.

Join our team as a Automotive Digital Product Owner to shape the future of our digital offerings by leading the development of innovative solutions that enhance customer experiences, drive revenue growth, and establish our brand as a leader in the automotive retail industry.

• Develop a clear product strategy and roadmap that aligns with the overall business goals and objectives, incorporating market research, competitive analysis, customer insights, and industry trends.

• Collaborate with stakeholders, including internal teams, customers, and external partners, to gather and prioritize requirements for digital products and features.

• Ensure that all digital products and features are designed with a strong focus on user experience, usability, and accessibility, conducting user research and testing as needed.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including designers, developers, and QA engineers, to prioritize features based on business value, technical feasibility, and customer impact.

• Drive the agile development process by creating and maintaining a product backlog, writing user stories, participating in sprint planning sessions, and providing clear guidance to the development team.

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to gather feedback, communicate progress updates, manage expectations, and ensure alignment between business needs and product delivery.

• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for digital products and continuously monitor performance against these metrics to identify areas for improvement and drive data-driven decision-making.

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by seeking feedback from customers, monitoring user satisfaction metrics, conducting post-launch evaluations, and identifying opportunities for optimization.

What you bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration or a related field.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Product Owner or similar role in a digital product development environment.

• Demonstrated experience in driving the development and launch of successful digital products or services from concept to delivery.

• Strong understanding of agile development methodologies, with experience working in cross-functional agile teams.

• Ability to empathize with customers' needs and translate them into actionable product requirements that deliver an exceptional user experience.

• Familiarity with web technologies, mobile applications, APIs, analytics tools, content management systems (CMS), e-commerce platforms, and other digital solutions.

• Proficient in analyzing data to drive insights and make informed product decisions; familiarity with A/B testing methodologies is preferred.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders at various levels of the organization.

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to break down complex problems into actionable steps and make data-informed decisions.

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a collaborative environment while managing competing priorities effectively.

• Understanding of the automotive retail industry, including parts cataloguing systems, inventory management processes, customer expectations in automotive e-commerce platforms is advantageous.

Hybrid

We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

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About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.