Product Owner

Quebec City, QC (Hybrid) Full Time

Job Summary

As part of his duties, the Product Owner (PO) will be paired with a talented and professional development team that is used to tackling varied and complex challenges. The team, made up 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 with the objective of facilitating the training of artificial intelligence models in order to increase and facilitate the analysis of the data collected. The team is made up 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 challenges of the various stakeholders.

Vision and orientation

• The PO must be able to properly understand the issues of users, stakeholders and must understand the technological and budgetary limitations of the product in order to make good decisions in the construction of the system in order to maximize performance and value addition.
• He documents the functional vision and roadmap of his product; defining the functions, technological needs and developments of the product;
• He works in concert with the other teams using his product to align their development roadmaps with the product roadmap.

Planning

• The product owner organizes quarterly project planning;
• He validates the functional breakdown and ensures the consistency of all product functions;
• He defines and documents the work plan as well as the user stories that he writes and prioritizes in a backlog;
• He participates in the estimation of the entire development and support cost structure of the product;
• The product owner must be able to maintain and communicate the version plan to the various stakeholders;
• The product owner prioritizes user needs between 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 various projects that use the product to take into account issues that may 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 users of the product;
• The product owner must present the product internally and externally;
• He communicates with the various stakeholders linked to the product in order to take into account issues that may 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 to work with various stakeholders such as clients, project managers, scientists, designers and the development team;
• Have a good sense of organization, responsibility and prioritization;
• Intellectual curiosity, a desire to learn and diversify is essential;
• Have aptitudes for teamwork and promote collective intelligence;
• Capacity for functional analysis and breakdown into blocks of functionalities.

This position requires a good knowledge of English for writing 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 requirements of the position

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.
• Discounts on home and auto insurance.

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.

About Thales

In a world that is increasingly fast moving, unpredictable – and full of opportunities, trust is essential for societies to flourish. Trust in our institutions. Trust in our systems. Trust in technology. Trust in each other.

And the people we all rely on to make the world go round, they rely on Thales. They come to us with big ambitions: to make life better, to keep us safer.

From the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace, we help our customers navigate uncertainty with confidence and new frontiers with optimism. Thinking smarter and acting faster - mastering ever greater complexity and every decisive moment along the way.

We collaborate to architect and deliver high technology solutions that are both imaginative and resilient, human-centered and sustainable. So that together we can harness the extraordinary power of technology to build a future we can all trust.