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Job Description:
We’re looking for a Product Owner who thrives at the intersection of design, engineering, and scale. In this role, you’ll assist with product direction for our global Design System consisting of a library of components, patterns, and standards that powers consistent, accessible, and beautiful experiences across our Canadian, U.S., and Asia markets.
Reporting to the Director, Global Product Management, you’ll be a dedicated Product partner working on the global design system work, operating alongside Technical, Design and Product counterparts. Our global design system is the connective tissue between dozens of product teams across three regions. As a Product Owner, you’ll translate the needs of those teams into a clear, prioritized roadmap of new components, enhancements, and design updates — then partner closely with engineering and design to deliver them on realistic, well-communicated timelines.
- Translate strategic priorities into actionable product roadmaps, ensuring the design system enables consistent, scalable digital experiences across business units and global markets
- Shape roadmap planning and prioritization by providing component-level expertise, delivery insights, and dependency management, helping ensure strategic objectives are achievable and aligned with business needs.
- Collaborate with Experience Design, Engineering, and platform teams to identify opportunities, manage trade-offs, and proactively address design and technical constraints that impact product delivery and adoption.
- Drive the successful delivery and adoption of design system capabilities by leveraging data, stakeholder feedback, and delivery metrics to inform decisions and continuous improvement efforts
You’ll sit at the center of a cross-functional, cross-regional effort, working with partners to:
Drive the evolution of the design system used globally across Canada, U.S., and Asia markets
Partner with Technical and Design product leads to scope component development and design updates, and to set deadlines that are ambitious yet achievable
Balance the needs of many consuming product teams against finite engineering and design capacity
Raise the bar on accessibility, consistency, and developer experience at enterprise scale
A natural collaborator who listens actively and communicates with clarity and conviction
Pragmatic about delivery — you protect quality while keeping commitments realistic and transparent
Comfortable operating at the seam between design and engineering, fluent enough in both to earn trust
Detail-oriented and systems-minded, energized by reusable patterns and long-term leverage
Sensitive to the needs of global, multi-market stakeholders and able to navigate regional differences
Influences product roadmap direction through customer insights, platform expertise, and stakeholder engagement supporting the broader digital product strategy
Owns and maintains a prioritized backlog of new components, enhancements, and design updates that serves Canada, U.S., and Asia consuming teams
Identifies and evaluates emerging design system, accessibility and front end practices, recommending enhancements that improve platform adoption, scalability and customer experience
Partner daily with Technical and Design product leads to scope component development and design updates and to drive realistic, achievable delivery plans and timelines
Translate consuming-team needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria for new and updated components
Manages the end-to-end delivery path — from intake and prioritization through development, release, and adoption
Enables and prepares the team to be several sprints ahead with a healthy, well-groomed backlog
Serve as Product Leader for the Global Design System, guiding roadmap execution, influencing priorities and driving alignment across product, design leaders and technology teams globally
Own platform demand management and prioritization, balancing enterprise needs against strategic objectives, engineering capacity and customer impact
Drive alignment among business, technology, experience design and regional leadership teams on enterprise platform priorities
Influence prioritization decisions across product teams and senior stakeholders with competing business objectives
Coordinate across time zones and markets to ensure global components meet regional requirements (localization, accessibility, brand)
Champion consistency, accessibility, and developer experience as first-class outcomes of the system
Define and track adoption and quality metrics; use them to prioritize investment and demonstrate impact
Partner with design and engineering to maintain documentation, contribution guidelines, and versioning standards
Ensure compliance with accessibility, brand, regulatory and technology standards across markets
What do you need to succeed?
Ideally 5+ years of industry experience, where you have demonstrated experience as a product owner or product manager, delivering digital products end to end.
Strong backlog management and prioritization skills, with the ability to balance competing stakeholder needs
Track record of setting and meeting realistic delivery commitments in a cross-functional environment.
Working familiarity with React-based front-end development and component-driven architecture (you don’t need to code, but you need to speak the language)
Understanding of design systems, component libraries, design tokens, and accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG)
Solid grasp of agile development methodologies and ceremonies
Excellent communication skills, with confidence partnering with Technical Leads, Designers, and senior stakeholders
Ability to build relationships and align decisions across a large, complex, multi-region organization
Comfortable coordinating across Canadian, U.S., and Asia time zones and markets
University degree in Business, Design, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Mid–senior level experience in digital product management, ideally including platform, design system, or developer-facing product work
What's in it for you?
The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential
Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family
We’re committed to creating an inclusive and respectful environment. Our goal is to make sure all our employees have the chance to live up to their full potential
We’re honoured to be recognized as a 2025 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work® Canada
We are thrilled to be recognized by Excellence Canada with their top-level certification, the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work®, for prioritizing employee well-being, fostering a positive work culture, and achieving excellence in mental health
The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to [email protected] .
We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you! Several work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.
We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.
We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Salary Range:
90,000/90 000 - 140,000/140 000
Job Category:
Product Owner
Posting End Date:
30/07/2026
