Product Owner with French

Thales; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Thales is seeking a passionate Product Owner to join its STAFR team in Bucharest. You will handle stakeholder management, product backlog prioritization, and release planning to enhance Sales & Operations Planning processes across various entities. This role promises a dynamic environment for career development within a global leader in innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing complex features and KPIs.
• Excellent negotiation skills with executive management.
• Facilitation skills for remote stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Identify and map stakeholders, manage expectations and risks.
• Translate user needs into actionable user stories.
• Prioritize product backlog based on value.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Data-driven approach

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Fluency in English

Job description

Location: Bucharest, Romania

The people we all rely on to make the world go round – they rely on Thales.Thales rely on its employees to invent the future: right here, right now.

Present in Romania for over 40 years, Thales is expanding its presence in the country by growing its Digital capabilities and by developing a Group Engineering Competence Centre (ECC). Operating from Bucharest, Thales delivers solutions in a number of core businesses, from ground transportation, space and defence, to security and aeronautics.
Several professional opportunities have arisen. If you are looking for the solidity of a Global Group that is at the forefront of innovation, but with the agility of a human structure that tailors to the personal development of its employees and allows opportunities for evolution in an international environment, then this is the place for you!

Job summary:

We are seeking a passionate and experienced Product Owner to join our STAFR team. STAFR is a Thales Corporate Engineering (TCE) project targeting to cover Workload and Workforce planning, a standard and key feature of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes which in this moment are defined and deployed across several Thales entities.

Main responsibilities:

• Identify and map stakeholders, understand their needs, and proactively manage their expectations, potential risks and issues, implementing appropriate and effective solutions
• Discuss new functionality and its (possible) business value with stakeholders
• Translate user needs into clear and actionable user stories for the development team.
• Prioritize the product backlog based on value, ensuring the delivery of essential features.
• Plan the Releases.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders to ensure engagement and satisfaction throughout the product lifecycle, to secure budget needed to meet both corporate needs and engineering needs and to ensure product vision always align with Thales Corporate Engineering strategy
• Develop a stakeholder expectation management and a user adoption strategy through effective communication, collaboration, and coordination.
• Facilitate scoping sessions and actively participate in scrum events (demos, retrospective, and backlog refinement sessions).
• Regularly communicate product status and release progress to stakeholders.

Who are you:

• Experience in developing complex features, charts, KPIs, indicators etc
• Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills at all levels, including executive management.
• Strategic thinking to identify trends, hidden needs, align product vision with company’s strategy and handle product development and deployment in a domain where change and transformation is needed: proof of concepts, pilots, MVP, adoption curve, etc.
• Facilitation skills to align and engage a stakeholder remotely (worldwide)
• Data-driven approach, utilizing metrics such as acquisition & activation metrics, Net Promoter Score, User Experience Questionnaire, burndown charts, etc.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Fluent in English, French recommended.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!