Software Product Owner
Role summary
Mobiltex, an IIoT company specializing in remote asset monitoring for critical infrastructure, seeks a Software Product Owner to guide next-generation software products from concept to delivery. This role involves translating market needs into actionable backlog items, prioritizing sprints, and ensuring value delivery. Responsibilities include championing the customer through research, defining user stories and acceptance criteria, owning and refining the product backlog, leading Agile ceremonies, establishing feedback loops, and communicating progress to stakeholders. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in a product leadership role within an Agile/Scrum environment, with working knowledge of cloud-native architectures and DevOps practices. Bonus points for experience in industrial IoT or cathodic protection domains.
Software Product Owner
Mobiltex is an IIoT company that enables our clients to remotely monitor critical assets using our industry leading data collection, transmission and analysis platforms. Corrosion specialists everywhere rely on us for our innovative solutions and superior customer support to maintain asset integrity. We’ve been leading the way in cathodic monitoring and data analysis through thousands of miles of pipelines in North America and continue to expand our market presence within the industry.
The Opportunity
As a Software Product Owner, you will guide one of Mobiltex’s next-generation software products from concept through continuous delivery. Partnering with product management, architecture, and Agile development teams, you will translate market problems into clear backlog items, set sprint priorities, and ensure every release delivers customer and business value.
What you’ll do
Champion the customer: Gather market insights, interview users, and validate solutions to ensure the team builds the right product.
Turn vision into work: Decompose roadmap initiatives into epics, features, and user stories with detailed acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements (performance, security, usability).
Own the backlog: Continuously refine and prioritize work, balancing new functionality with technical-debt reduction and platform reliability.
Lead Agile ceremonies: Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives; accept completed work and adjust priorities as feedback emerges.
Establish feedback loops: Launch lightweight programs (e.g., NPS-style surveys, usage analytics) to capture user sentiment and guide iterative improvements.
Communicate with transparency: Provide concise status, roadmap, and KPI updates that align engineering, operations, sales, and leadership.
Stay market aware: Track competitors, industry trends, and emerging technologies in IIoT and cloud to keep the product differentiated and future ready.
What We’re Looking For
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
5+ years in a Product Owner or similar product-leadership role delivering commercial software in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Demonstrated skill in writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and guiding cross-functional teams to successful releases.
Strong stakeholder-management, facilitation, and data-driven decision-making abilities.
Excellent written and verbal communication; able to convey complex technical concepts to varied audiences.
Working knowledge of cloud-native architectures, DevOps practices, and modern analytics tools.
Bonus – Exposure to cathodic protection, industrial IoT, or infrastructure-monitoring domains.
Why work for Mobiltex?
Exceptional learning/growth opportunity.
Flexible work schedule.
Competitive compensation and benefits package.
Wide variety of cutting-edge products.
Educational funding.
Great social events throughout the year.
Easy commute from many communities.
Thank you for your interest in Mobiltex, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
*Mobiltex is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to mental or physical disabilities, family status, marital status, sex or gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, religion or creed, nationality or citizenship, national or ethnic place of origin, ancestry, or race or color.*
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Calgary, AB
