Product Owner

Location: Singapore Suntec 5 Temasek Blv, Singapore

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.

**Thales Digital Factory - Product Owner**

**In an inauguration ceremony held November 29, Singapore became the third country, after France and Canada, to welcome the Thales Digital Factory.**

Known for its technology investments, vibrant ecosystem and connectivity, Singapore is a prime destination for innovation to thrive. The addition of Singapore to the Digital Factory network will accelerate innovation and digital transformation in the region and allow Thales to leverage its innovative services in aerospace, space, ground transportation, defence and security to its customers in a collaborative way.

The Digital Factory was launched in July 2017 in Paris as a fully-fledged internal digital company whose mission is to accelerate the digital transformation of Thales and its customers. It was expanded to Montreal in April 2018 and already hosts more than 230 experts in digital technologies (Cloud, Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity etc) and methods (design thinking, lean start-up, agile software development) to develop innovative products in close collaboration with future users. The Digital Factory delivers first versions of new digital services in a few months to quickly test operational and business value, through Minimum Viable Products (MVP). With 15 MVPs already delivered within one year in domains such as air traffic management, avionics equipment repair, drone operations, airport passenger experience, maritime traffic, metros maintenance, the Digital Factory allows Thales’s customers to quickly experiment new solutions at a rapid rate to improve their operations and customers experience.

As a Product Owner in the Digital Factory, you help the organization realize value through delivering product solutions that delight customers and users within the constraints of technical feasibilities. You should be someone with good emotional intelligence, able to empathize with users, able to communicate difficult decisions to the team to support the effective delivery and validation of product ideas.

“Hungry, Humble, Aware” - Patrick Lencioni

**Job Requirement**
- Take ownership of the MVP to clear roadblocks and impediments on the behalf of the MVP team
- Assist the team in strategizing the delivery of the MVP whilst providing transparency to the stakeholders and managing the expectations of the stakeholders
- Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
- Assist the team in “grooming” the product backlog so that the user stores & tasks are refined
- Assist the team in creating effective user stories and acceptance criteria for user stories
- Assist the team in creating effective technical stories and acceptance criteria for technical stories
- Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of tasks to work on
- Assess “value”, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy

**Skills and Knowledge**
- You should have at least 5 years working in an environment where you have demonstrated a good breadth and depth of being a PO for MVPs using the Scrum methodology
- In-depth knowledge of the Agile principles and process
- You know how to define what value is (and is not) and how to measure value via usage metrics, NPS, customer and user interviews, direct observation, ROI, customer feedback etc
- You know how to differentiate between “outcome” and “output” w.r.t maximizing value.
- Open, strong communicator who communicates effectively across teams, locations and cultures, in-person and virtually
- Courage of convictions with a high degree of humility. Embraces constructive feedback and is resilient

If this role sounds like you or it’s a role you are interested, we’re happy and eager to meet you

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