Product Owner

Within the group, Thales Digital Solutions (TDS) is a technological innovation hub supporting all sectors of activity, both in the local Canadian market and internationally. Join us to contribute to the development of mission critical solutions. Our various cutting-edge projects use our expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Human Factors, Collaborative Autonomous Systems, Optimization, Knowledge Management, Cybersecurity and Design.

Job Summary

As part of their duties, the Product Owner (PO) will be paired with a talented and professional development team that is used to tackling various and complex challenges. The team, composed of multidisciplinary people, 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 is composed of developers and artificial intelligence specialists.

Essential Functions

As a PO (Product Owner), your responsibility is to align the product vision with the strategic and functional issues of the various stakeholders.
Vision and orientation
• The PO must be able to well understand the issues of users and stakeholders and must understand the technological and budgetary limitations of the product in order to make good decisions in the construction of the system to maximize performance and value addition.
• He documents the vision and functional roadmap of his product; defining functions, technological needs and product evolutions;
• He works closely with other teams using his product to align their development roadmaps with the product roadmap.
Planning
• The product owner organizes the quarterly planning of the project;
• He validates the functional breakdown and ensures the coherence of all product functions;
• He defines and documents the work plan as well as user stories that he writes and prioritizes in a backlog;
• He participates in the estimation of the entire product development and support cost structure;
• The product owner must be able to maintain and communicate the release plan to different stakeholders;
• The product owner prioritizes user needs among the different projects that use the product to ensure alignment with the overall product vision based on project constraints;
• The product owner communicates with stakeholders linked to the different projects that use the product to take into account issues that could impact product priorities and deliverables;
• The product owner is responsible, jointly with the team, for respecting product delivery commitments.
Validation
• The product owner validates the alignment of the team's work with the product vision during sprint reviews.
• He validates the quality of the team's work in sprint reviews in which he tests and executes system test scenarios;
Communication and documentation
• The product owner must maintain and communicate the product roadmap to the various stakeholders and product users;
• The product owner must present the product both internally and externally;
• He communicates with the various stakeholders related to the product in order to take into account issues that could impact priorities and deliverables (project manager, UX designer, technical lead, scientists, clients, collaborators...);
• The product owner may have to contribute, 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;
• Have good communication, be a good listener and demonstrate openness in order to work with different stakeholders such as clients, project managers, scientists, designers and the development team;
• Have a good sense of organization, responsibilities and prioritization;
• Having intellectual curiosity, the desire to learn and diversify is essential;
• Have aptitude for teamwork and foster collective intelligence;
• Capacity for functional analysis and breakdown into functionality blocks.

This position requires a good knowledge of English for drafting technical documents, to interact, support and/or provide services to international clients, employees and/or partners as well as to 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).

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.