Chief Product Owner, Network & Communication R&D

Siemens Mobility; Vaughan; On-site; CAD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Profit sharing

Vacation buy/sell

Mentorship programs

Job summary

Siemens Canada in Concord, Ontario, seeks a Chief Product Owner to lead Product Owners, drive the R&D backlog, and ensure timely delivery of rugged network products under the Ruggedcom brand. You will blend hands-on project management with strong leadership to align roadmap, budget, and quality targets across international teams.

You will mentor engineers, foster ownership culture, handle complex dependencies, and champion AI-enabled ways of working while maintaining close day-to-day involvement

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Embedded Software or equivalent.
• 10+ years of project management experience.
• 5+ years of leadership experience in R&D.
• Experience leading hardware and embedded software across full product lifecycle.
• Strong expertise in PLM and development processes.
• Technical knowledge of embedded systems (hardware, software, integration, validation).
• Experience building engineering organizations and coaching technical talent.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate requirements with Product Head and develop a prioritized backlog.
• Facilitate discussions between technical experts and Product Management.
• Ensure proper project setup, monitor progress, remove obstacles.
• Escalate critical issues to site management in Canada and Germany.
• Lead continuous improvement and stay hands-on with key projects.

Skills

Leadership experience

Project management

Hardware development

Embedded software

Stakeholder management

Execution mindset

Data-driven decisions

Change leadership

People leadership

Team motivation

Education

University degree

Tools

PLM

Job description

Chief Product Owner, Network & Communication R&D

Full-time

Permanent

Change the future with us.

We are looking for dedicated and talented people who tackle ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re-inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what’s truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.

Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2025 and Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2025.

About the role:

Siemens Digital Industry offers a comprehensive portfolio of seamlessly integrated hardware, software and technology-based services to support companies worldwide in enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of their processes- be it the automotive or aerospace industry, in process industries like pharma or chemical, mechanical engineering or other interesting sectors like power distribution and defense.

We at Digital Connectivity & Power are innovation leaders in OT-Network devices and systems, with an ambition to grow even stronger in the IT/OT convergence field.

At our product creation site in Concord, Canada, we focus on rugged network products which are marketed under the Siemens Ruggedcom brand name.

Currently we are looking for a Chief Product Owner, internally referred to as Head of Product Owners, who would lead and guide our Product Owners to excel at their job, to teach and to educate them further on successful project management skills and to be a role model for our ownership culture. The Product Owners ensure a highly efficient and time-to-market driven development of our products. In this role, the Product Owners are responsible for creating the R&D centric backlog and to follow up closely on the project progress, remove hindrances and guide the project team through their development steps. Consequently, our Product Owners combine solid traditional R&D project management skills with a strong ownership culture for their products. They are responsible and accountable for the smooth progression of our R&D projects, including a very transparent project status reporting throughout all stages of their projects.

In this role you will also take on some of our most prominent projects as your personal responsibility, to keep a hands-on relationship with our day-to-day projects and to contribute directly with your experience to our most critical products.

If you combine strong and modern leadership skills with profound experience in R&D project management, you are the person that we are looking for. We expect experience in the field of electronics and embedded software. To have insight into networking devices and software would be a strong plus.

What will you do?

• Jointly with the Product Head, evaluate product and feature requirements, advise on the value-to-effort ratio of pre-ranked requirements, and develop a prioritized backlog for the development teams.
• Facilitate discussions between technical experts and Product Management, using your technical knowledge and strong interpersonal skills.
• Ensure projects are properly set up before execution, closely monitor the project environment, and step in when teams encounter obstacles, unclear requirements, difficult dependencies, or resource constraints.
• Escalate critical issues directly to site management in Canada and the Head of the Product Line in Germany.
• Lead continuous improvement activities across the organization, applying lessons from previous development cycles to strengthen execution excellence while remaining actively involved in day-to-day project work.

What will you need to succeed?

• University degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Embedded Software or similar field
• Proven track record in project management of 10 years or more
• Minimum 5 years of leadership experience in R&D
• Experience in leading hardware and embedded software development across the full product lifecycle, with accountability for project execution, quality, cost and roadmap/schedule.
• Strong expertise in PLM and development processes, including driving process standardization, governance and continuous improvement.
• Technical knowledge of embedded systems, including hardware, embedded software, system integration, and validation.
• Experience in developing engineering organizations, including coaching technical talents and fostering knowledge sharing and capability building.
• Energetic entrepreneur with creative ideas and the power to motivate others and to foster broad engagement in our projects
• Execution-oriented mindset, with a focus on delivering results on time, within budget, meeting the technical requirements and the quality targets.
• Fact-based decision maker, using data, KPIs, and technical evidence to prioritize and resolve issues.
• Strong stakeholder management, collaborating effectively across R&D, Product Management, Manufacturing, Quality, and other business functions.
• Change-ready leader, driving continuous improvement, adopting AI-enabled ways of working, and communicating with clarity and transparency.
• Hands-on people leader, promoting accountability, continuous learning, and high-performing teams through regular coaching and feedback.

Salary iscommensuratewith experience, and ranges between $ 130,000 CAD - $ 150,000 CAD, excluding bonus and benefits. In addition to base salary, this role includes eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus of 25% base salary, based on Company performance metrics.

About us.

We share our ideas and champion the people behind them.

Siemens Canada is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility and healthcare. The company’s purpose is to create technology with purpose, transforming the everyday, for everyone, since 1912. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformations, making factories more efficient, cities more liveable, and transportation more sustainable. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a leading global medical technology provider pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

In fiscal 2024, which ended September 30, 2024, Siemens Canada had revenues of approx. $2.2 billion CAD. The company has approximately 4,400 employees from coast-to-coast and 37 office and production facilities across Canada.

To learn more about Siemens Canada, visit our website at www.siemens.ca

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