Product Manager - Ottawa, Canada - Thales

Thales

Verified Company

Ottawa, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Location:
Ottawa, Canada

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more.

More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Position Summary:

As Product Manager, your will manage the full product life cycle by coordinating all involved teams from R&D to manufacturing.

Define, with product marketing, the product roadmap. Technically support the organization to promote sell and deliver products.

Key Accountabilities:

Gather technical features as well as known custom field requests, write the Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), communicate and have it validated.
Coordinate different teams in order to launch products.
Responsible for product messaging, competitive differentiation.
Responsible for product collaterals and customer facing interactions.
Responsible for all product related to the technical documentation and the trainings.
Lead first customer delivery.
Provide product maintenance during product life.
Responsible to coordinate projects priority management.
Responsible to handle End Of Life communication and forecast.
Responsible to compute initial product costing, track it during product life, identify and drive all product cost reduction opportunities.
Support the supply chain in the demand forecast.
Manage the risk through multisourcing, risk orders, capacity booking, migrations, backup,
Provide required inputs for the standardization strategy and intellectual property law.

Key Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or another relevant field of technical study with a minimum of 8 years of overall product management experience or Master's degree in field with 6+ years of relevant experience.
Good experience (3 years) in R&D, Standards, product management, in hightech environments.
At least 5 years of demonstrated product marketing experience on B2B environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
At least 4 years of previous experience supporting the full lifecycle of a product.
Excellent Team player with proven ability to accomplish goals through collaboration.
Ability to operate effectively and autonomously across multiple teams in situations of ambiguity leveraging problem solving skills and a willingness to learn with only highlevel direction.

Preferred Qualifications:

Product marketing experience on hardware based products.
Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or another relevant field of technical study.
Marketing related qualifications or certifications are a plus.
Project management certification.
Bilingual in English & French would be asset.