Position Title:

Product Owner - Analytic Pipeline Team (Digital Strategy And Product) (English Services

Status of Employment:

Permanent

Position Language Requirement:

English

Language Skills:

English (First Official Language), English (Reading), English (Speaking), English (Writing)

Work at CBC/Radio-Canada

At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance.

Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.

Unposting Date:

2026-01-05 11:59 PM

Job Description

Working at CBC:

At the CBC, we all have a story to tell. What’s yours?

If you share our passion for storytelling, Canada and having a positive impact on your community, CBC’s Digital Strategy and Product team is where you want to be!

CBC serves one of the country’s largest digital audiences and one of the few that is built and owned in Canada, by Canadians. Our product suite includes

cbc.ca

, CBC News app, CBC Gem and CBC Listen.

Our product vision is to make it effortless for all people and communities in Canada to tell and discover the stories that connect us. Whether delivering the latest breaking news, international hit series like North of North, deep dives into the issues of your town or neighbourhood, award winning podcasts like Someone Knows Something, or nation building events like the Olympics, our products ensure that these stories reach Canadians on their phones, TVs, desktops or smart speakers whenever they need or want us.

You have the opportunity to play a part in informing, enlightening and entertaining Canadians through innovative storytelling formats and content discovery. We are an empowered outcome-driven innovative hub for CBC, critical to the future growth of Canada’s public media company and the wider content ecosystem. We believe that we are most impactful when our teams reflect the breadth of experience of the audiences we serve and we are committed to an inclusive and equitable workplace to realize that belief. When you join our mission, you are not only contributing to the growth of the CBC, but the future of our country.

Why is this role important?

Make it effortless for all people and communities in Canada to tell and discover the stories that connect us is our product vision. To achieve this, we rely on Analytics to understand engagement and Personalization to create seamless experiences.

As our data needs have evolved, so have we. We are seeking a Product Owner to join our dedicated Analytic Pipeline team. Your product mission is clear: To connect data teams with reliable user data streams, empowering them to drive meaningful engagement and make data-driven decisions.

You will help guide the team on prioritizing work with deep collaboration with data stakeholders who rely on the real-time data pipeline your team maintains, as well as enhancing this data product offering with additional data services as the opportunities arise.

Here’s why we should work together:

Our digital teams’ values - collaboration, inclusion, learning, and continuous improvement - embody who we are as a people-focused, digital-forward employer. We follow Agile principles and the empowered product operating model. Our dedicated managers work closely with every individual to ensure we are leveraging their strengths, championing their ideas and supporting their pursuit of new skills and their desired career progression.

Here at CBC Digital Strategy & Products, your well being is critical to our success. It is essential that work be a safe space where our employees are able to share their authentic selves with one another and to push each other to challenge conventions.

Perks you can look forward to:

• Work with purpose and impact at scale
• Flexible work schedules, allowing you to find balance for yourself, your family and your work;
• A hybrid environment you can enjoy the benefits of work from home and in-office collaboration
• Competitive total rewards package including robust health benefits and best-in-class defined benefits pension plan;
• Dedicated time for innovation, learning and development; wherever your interests lie;
• Opportunities to work with emerging technology;
• Opportunities for continued learning and professional development;
• Opportunities to become a member of our Employee Resource Groups;
• Pair programming and mentorship opportunities, where you can learn from the best in the industry and help coach new talent;
• A creative and dynamic work environment, where your ideas and contributions can be heard, valued and respected;
• A supportive management team committed to upholding the highest standards of diversity and inclusivity;
• An environment which favors experimentation and an iterative approach in order to achieve the highest form of technical innovation.

How you will make an impact:

You will play an active role in CBC/Radio-Canada’s digital development, by providing our data teams with a real-time data collection pipeline to enable the building of data products to serve Canadians.

You will cultivate working relationships with stakeholders, to understand their priorities, and uncover opportunities that will drive the Analytic Pipeline Team Backlog.

You will work on a cross-functional team, and help build a healthy backlog of team-driven system improvements as well as stakeholder driven features.

You will identify & prioritize opportunities for your team to tackle, and help them ideate through cycles of breaking down opportunities into scopes that can be validated, solved and shipped.

You will have channels to stay savvy on industry trends on real-time collection pipelines, understanding how competitors compare to your product.

You will be data-driven, and focus priorities around system KPIs and cross-team outcomes your team will be contributing to.

Key first year outcomes you will achieve:

• Support the migration of Adobe Analytics client side analytic libraries to server side by the end of March 31st 2027
• Support the migration of profile data from being collected on the Audience Facing products, to having it enriched directly through the Analytic Pipeline from the User Store by the end of end of March 31st 2027
• Reduce the average latency of our real-time analytic pipeline by 15% by the end of March 31st 2027

What you bring to our team:

• Five (5) years of experience in digital product development as Product Owner, Seasoned Developer, Architect or Technical Business Analyst.
• Experience building a real-time data pipeline with tools such as Apache Dataflow, Apache Kafka, Snowplow or similar real-time data pipeline solutions
• Good understanding of the Agile methodology for digital product development
• Strategic thinker and an idea-generator
• Strong leadership skills
• Strong Collaboration skills, with proven experience working closely with cross-disciplinary peers
• Strong Communication skills, being able to take technical concepts and translate to non-technical audiences

Nice to have:

• 2+ years of Data Engineering or Software Development Experience
• Experience implementing Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics or similar Marketing Analytics
• Experience implementing Amplitude, Posthog, Heap, Mixpanel or similar Product Analytics

Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next

step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes:

• A mandatory Criminal record check.
• Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.

CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That’s why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster. For more information, visit the

Diversity and Inclusion section

of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to

recruitment@cbc.ca

.

You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our

corporate website

. All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on

conflicts of interest

. In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.

Primary Location:

Broadcast Centre 205 Wellington St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3G7

Number of Openings:

1

Work Schedule:

Full time