Product Manager - Waterloo, Canada - NAVBLUE, an Airbus Company

NAVBLUE, an Airbus Company

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Waterloo, Canada

1 week ago

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Job Summary:

NAVBLUE is looking for a Product Manager, as part of our SAFe way of working.

In NAVBLUE the development activities are realized thanks to two Agile Release Trains (ART).

The successful execution of the ART is helped by three critical roles:

Release Train Engineer
Product Management
System Architect/engineering

As per SAFe framework deployed in NAVBLUE:

Product Management is responsible for defining and supporting the building of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable products that meet customer needs over the product-market lifecycle.

To do this, they collaborate with a wide range of people to identify and define customer needs, understand the Solution Context, and develop the Program Vision, Roadmap, and Features required to meet these needs.

Then, they support the Agile Release Trains (ARTs) in delivering value through the Program Kanban and Continuous Delivery Pipeline.

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The Product Management function relies on several key roles like Business Owners, EPIC owners, Lean UX Designers, Product Owners, and Product Managers.

The primary responsibilities of product management fall into four main areas:

Meet business goals
Products and solutions must meet the economic business goals established by the portfolio

Get it built

Product Managers collaborate with Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Solution Trains to build the required functionality
Get it off the shelf
Internally, Product Managers collaborate with IT to ensure solutions are deployed to internal customers and users; externally, Product Managers collaborate with an even larger set of business stakeholders to deliver products to the market

Leverage support

Product Managers ensure their offerings are supported and enhanced to create a continuous flow of value

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NAVBLUE is looking for a Product Manager, responsible for materializing strategy around OCC Flight Planning and Sustainability solutions. The first task of this role is to complete the Performance Database Optimization EPIC, managed in partnership with Airbus.

Later the applicant will be in charge of the evolutions of Flight Planning capability towards the NAVBLUE ecosystem (cloud based solution) and develop sustainability across our Portfolio.

Responsibilities:

Main responsibilities of Product Management are described in the SAFe framework at

As a Product Manager in NAVBLUE, the applicant will:

Work with Business Management and Enterprise Architecture to define the content of the EPIC (Description, Lean business case, business outcomes, leading indicators ) and contribute to/understand the main principles of target architecture
Refine the EPIC into features, tune the MVP scope adequately
Contribute to the management of the backlog of features with other Product Managers (PM) and ART lead PMs
Support the Product Owners and more globally the ART to refine the features into user stories and implement them
Participate in acceptance of features (Definition of Done assessment)
Measure flow and outcomes related to features

As a Product Manager for OCC Flight Planning and Sustainability, the applicant will support Product Management activities related to NAVBLUE Strategic Objectives related to these domains.

Education:

Engineer or Master degree in software engineering or aeronautics

Experience:

Solid experience in Software engineering
Solid experience in Aviation industry, noticeably Flight Operations good knowledge of EFB solutions including Charts, OCC environment, flight ops engineering
Significant experience in OCC environment, Flight Planning, Aircraft performance demonstrated appetite for sustainability initiatives
Experience in SAFe

Knowledge, Skills, Demonstrated Capabilities & Competencies:

Superior analytical and problem solving skills
Creative mindset
High energy, driven to innovate, and a team player
Strongly focused and selfmotivated to overachieve goals

Communication Skills:

Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to interact effectively with senior management, customers and partners
English negotiation level

Perks:

Located in the heart of University of Waterloo's David Johnston Research + Technology Park, NAVBLUE is close to shops, restaurants, gyms, daycare, and many other amenities, and only 10 minutes away from Hwy 85.

The modern design of our suite on the second floor of the Accelerator Centre draws its inspiration from airport terminals, and features bright, open workstations, rather than boxed-in cubicles.

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