About KEV:
KEV Group is an enterprise SaaS company that provides an all-in-one activity fund management solution for K-12 schools. By seamlessly integrating and automating all fee management processes, our SchoolCash platform provides real-time visibility and control over how districts and schools create, collect, manage, track, and reconcile these funds. Parents benefit from an easy-to-use solution that offers convenience and supports all payment types. More than 26,000 schools across North America rely on our solutions to manage over $4 billion in activity funds annually.
The company is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Cambridge, ON and across the U.S., KEV is a portfolio company of Five Arrows. With over €10 billion of assets under management (AUM), the corporate private equity business of Five Arrows invests in companies with highly defensible market positions, strong management teams, and growth-based business models.
Why Join KEV?
- Work in an industry that benefits children, parents and schools
- Do meaningful and purpose-driven work, and make a real impact
- Join a quickly growing organization with real opportunity for learning and growth
- Passionate and accessible leadership team that cares about people, personally and professionally
- Hybrid work environment (3 days a week in either our North York or Cambridge office)
Job Description:
We are looking for a Product Owner to join our team. You will help us executing the product roadmap, prioritizing, writing business requirements and user stories, coordinating day-to-day activities for our school accounting, payments, and donations suite, used by thousands of schools and over a million parents and guardians across North America. If you’d like to learn more and are passionate about product management, then please get in touch as we would love to chat with you.
Responsibilities:
You will work with the Product Manager to:
- Execute the product roadmap
- Meet with end users and stakeholders to understand their problems and analyze product data and usage patterns to identify opportunities
- Define requirements, prioritize tickets and set expectations to deliver high value solutions
- Own the deployment process, release notes, and collateral for internal education
- Perform product demos
- Drive end-to-end product development to execute product initiatives
Requirements and Skills:
- 2-3 years of product management experience
- Experience with Agile development processes, writing user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Previous responsibility for day-to-day interactions with large or multiple development teams clarifying requirements and trouble-shooting issues
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret market needs and translate them into requirements that can use to inform technical designs
- Long-term thinking to day-to-day interactions and decisions
- Detail-oriented, resourceful, and able to prioritize under deadlines
- Strong desire for continuous learning and growth
You’re Extra Awesome With:
- Accounting background
- Have experience in the K-12 market
- Have Edtech or similar industry experience
- Have experience with WalkMe, Pendo or similar DAP software
- Have experience with JIRA or Azure DevOps
We Offer:
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Competitive salary
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Comprehensive health and dental benefits
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Professional development opportunities
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Continuing Education
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Great colleagues and collaboration
This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required by an individual joining the KEV team in this or any other capacity.
KEV Group is pleased to accommodate individual needs in accordance with the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA), within our recruitment process. If you require accommodation at any time throughout the recruitment process, please speak with Human Resources or the hiring manager.
KEV Group is an equal opportunity employer who agrees not to discriminate against any employee or job applicant because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.
