Product Manager

Function

Portfolio Growth
- Location
- Waterloo, Ontario- Reference
- Contract type
Permanent- Working time
Full Time**Job Summary**:
An exciting opportunity exists for a Product Manager role at NAVBLUE for our N- Preferential Bidding System (N-PBS) product. Navblue provides a comprehensive suite of software solutions for flight planning, performance optimization, crew management, and navigation services. These solutions are designed to help airlines improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance safety.

The successful applicant will be the Product Manager of NAVBLUE Preferential bidding system product.

Navblue uses the SAFe lean and agile framework to develop its solutions. As per SAFe guidance:
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 life cycle. To do this, they collaborate with a wide range of people to identify and define customer needs, understand the Solution Context, and develop the 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. The Product Manager is a member of the ART leadership team, in collaboration with the Release Train Engineer and Solutons Architect.

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NAVBLUE is a leading services company, wholly owned by Airbus, dedicated to Flight Operations & Air Traffic Management solutions and services for airlines, airports, and Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs). We combine aircraft manufacturer expertise, flight operations know-how and agile development to enhance operational efficiency, optimize resources and increase productivity for safe and sustainable aviation. Our global teams deliver a reliable, optimum and customized user experience to more than 500 customers worldwide.

**Responsibilities**:

- Product Vision and Strategy: Participate in the product vision and strategy aligned with overall business goals, market trends, architectural runway and customer feedback.
- SAFe Framework Leadership: Act as the Product Manager for one or more Agile Release Trains (ARTs) within the SAFe framework.
- Stakeholder Management:

- Collaborate with key stakeholders, including executives and cross-functional teams, to gather input, feedback, and requirements. Manage and prioritize stakeholder expectations while balancing business needs and technical constraints.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration among cross-functional teams, including Software Factory and Portfolio departments to ensure a smooth and efficient development process. Act as a bridge between the development teams, stakeholders, and leadership, providing regular updates on product progress, challenges, and opportunities.
- Product Backlog Management:

- Collaborate with business value owners, enterprise architects, stakeholders, and end-users to gather and understand requirements, capturing both functional and non-functional aspects of the product.
- Consolidate and maintain the product backlog. Feature Development: Provide clear and detailed features and requirements to development teams, addressing any questions or ambiguities that arise during the development process. Ensure that features and user stories and features are well-defined, actionable, and aligned with the product vision.
- Prioritization: Work closely with stakeholders to prioritize backlog items based on value, business objectives, architecture objectives, customer needs and product constraints.
- Release Planning: Participate in release planning activities, defining release content, scope, and objectives. Ensure that development efforts are synchronized across teams and align with the overall product roadmap. Collect and analyze user feedback and performance metrics to make informed decisions about future product iterations and enhancements
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks and obstacles to successful product delivery and work proactively to address or mitigate them.

**Education**:

- Post secondary education in aeronautics, software engineering, business or any related field

**Experience**:

- Solid experience in Aviation industry, noticeably Flight Operations
- Experience in agile digital product development
- Experience in SAFe as a product owner / product manager
- Strong experience with Preferential bidding systems

**Knowledge, Skills, Demonstrated Capabilities & Competencies**:

- Excellent stakeholder management: professional presence, presentation skills, facilitation
- Flight operations knowledge and experience
- Superior analytical and problem solving skills
- Customer focus and business acumen
- Ability to learn and grow
- Team player mindset
- Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to interact effectively with different stakeholders

**Perks**:
Located in the heart of University of Waterloo’s David Johnston Research +