Product Owner

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Product Owner

Quebec City, QC (Hybrid) Full Time

Job Summary

As part of their duties, the Product Owner (PO) will be paired with a talented and professional development team used to tackling varied and complex challenges. The multidisciplinary team is responsible for setting up and developing a solution to accelerate the industrialization of artificial intelligence models.

The team defines and deploys an automated processing chain aimed at facilitating the training of artificial intelligence models in order to increase and facilitate the analysis of collected data. The team consists of developers and artificial intelligence specialists.

Essential Functions

As a Product Owner, your responsibility is to align the product vision with the strategic and functional issues of various stakeholders.

Vision and Orientation:

• The PO must be able to well understand user and stakeholder issues, and understand the technological and budgetary limitations of the product in order to make good decisions during system construction to maximize performance and value addition.
• Documents the vision and functional roadmap of the product; defining functions, technological needs, and product evolutions.
• Works closely with other teams using their product to align their development roadmaps with the product roadmap.

Planning:

• The product owner organizes the quarterly planning of the project.
• Validates the functional breakdown and ensures the consistency of all product features.
• Defines and documents the work plan as well as user stories written and prioritized in a backlog.
• Participates in estimating the overall structure of development and support costs for the product.
• Must be able to maintain and communicate the release plan to various stakeholders.
• Prioritizes user needs across various projects using the product to ensure alignment with the overall product vision according to project constraints.
• Communicates with stakeholders related to various projects using the product to account for issues that may impact product priorities and deliverables.
• Is responsible, jointly with the team, for respecting product delivery commitments.

Validation:

• Validates the alignment of the team's work with the product vision during sprint reviews.
• Validates the quality of the team's work in sprint reviews by testing and executing system test scenarios.

Communication and Documentation:

• Must maintain and communicate the product roadmap to various stakeholders and product users.
• Must present the product both internally and externally.
• Communicates with various stakeholders related to the product to account for issues that may impact priorities and deliverables (project manager, UX designer, technical lead, scientists, clients, collaborators...).
• May have to contribute, along with the rest of the team, to the functional and user documentation of the developed solutions.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or any other related field is relevant.
• The candidate should have at least 10 years of relevant experience.
• Good command of French and English, spoken and written.
• Good communication, listening skills, and openness to work with various stakeholders such as clients, project managers, scientists, designers, and the development team.
• Good sense of organization, responsibility, and prioritization.
• Intellectual curiosity, eagerness to learn, and diversification are essential.
• Teamwork skills and promotion of collective intelligence.
• Capacity for functional analysis and breakdown into functionality blocks.

This position requires a good knowledge of English for drafting technical documents, interacting with, supporting, and/or providing services to international clients, employees, and/or partners as well as foreign government authorities who do not speak French.

Desirable Qualification

• Experience with Agile development methods (Scrum, Kanban) is an asset.
• Demonstrated expertise in the field of complex and distributed software solutions.

Special Job Requirements

Travel: Between 4 and 6 trips to Europe or elsewhere in Canada are expected per year.

Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following:

• Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program.
• Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period.
• Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave.
• Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability.
• Employee Discounts on insurance (home, and auto).

Thales is an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Thales is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the interview process. Applicants selected for an interview who require accommodation are asked to advise accordingly upon the invitation for an interview. We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.

This position requires direct or indirect access to hardware, software or technical information controlled under the Canadian Export Control List, the Canadian Controlled Goods Program, the Canadian Industrial Security Program, the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the US Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization for such access including eligibility to the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and able to obtain a Canadian Enhanced Reliability security clearance.