Technical Product Owner II

The Technical Product Owner supports complex HR and Finance systems initiatives across Staples Canada and owns selected finance applications, including Esker, AP Workflow, and Axonify, ensuring stability, optimization, and alignment with business needs. Reporting to the Manager, Corporate System, this role bridges business stakeholders, IT, and vendors to ensure requirements are clearly documented, traceable, and delivered through standard IT delivery processes. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, a strong critical thinker, and a fast learner with experience delivering complex enterprise projects.

Specifically, You Will:

• Act as a primary liaison between HR, Finance, IT, and vendors for assigned initiatives.
• Develop and maintain high-quality Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) using established standards.
• Create current-state and future-state process flow diagrams to support solution design and stakeholder alignment.
• Create data mapping documentation to support integrations, including source-to-target mappings and data validation rules.
• Collaborate with Integration, Middleware, and Architecture teams to support reliable data flow and shared understanding of system impacts.
• Lead business stakeholders through structured decision-making and requirement sign-off processes.
• Drive accountability across stakeholders and elevate when risks or decision delays threaten delivery.

Some of what you need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Information Systems.
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, systems delivery, or product-related roles.
• Demonstrated experience supporting large, complex enterprise projects with multiple stakeholders and integrations.
• Strong experience producing BRDs, process flows, traceability matrix, and UAT-related documentation.
• Ability to learn new systems quickly and understand end-to-end process and data impacts.
• Understanding of system integrations, data flows, and enterprise IT concepts.
• Proficiency with Microsoft products (e.g. Excel, Powerpoint, Word)
• Familiarity with Smartsheet, Jira and diagramming tools (Visio/Lucidchart) is an asset.

Some of what you will get:

• Health and Dental benefits
• RRSP/DPSP
• Performance bonuses

About Us

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About the Team

About the Team At Staples Canada we are dynamic, inspiring partners to our customers and the communities in which we live. As The Working and Learning Company, we inspire people to work smarter, learn more and grow every day. We’re looking for curious, approachable, and passionate individuals who love finding solutions. If that’s you, let’s work, learn, and grow together. We are building an inclusive and diverse team Staples Canada is continuously working towards creating an inclusive and diverse work environment. We welcome, value and thrive on perspectives and contributions from backgrounds that vary by race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion or physical ability. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.