Product Owner

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 Engineering Project Dashboard team aiming to provide KPIs and metrics to monitor engineering activities of projects' engineering work packages. Customers of Engineering Project Dashboard digital services are spread all around the world, leading teams with different granularity, and looking for contextual information related to their projects.

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:

• Certification in Product Management (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner, Professional Scrum Product Owner).
• Experience in developing tools for skill development and leadership is highly recommended.
• Experience in developing data visualization with Power BI
• Deep understanding of skill management and skill-based activities for engineering topics
• 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.