Full-Time

Product Manager

Posted on 9/11/2025

Wind River

Wind River

1,001-5,000 employees

Real-time OS and embedded software solutions

No salary listed

Kanata, Ottawa, ON, Canada

In Person

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
Agile
Product Management
JIRA
SCRUM
Confluence
Requirements
  • Experience working for medium to large-scale products.
  • Experience working as a part of a larger Product Management team fostering alignment.
  • Experience in understanding use cases and anticipating requirements.
  • Experience with writing user stories (USs) and guiding teams to write effective user stories (USs).
  • Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict.
  • Experience with Scrum, Kanban, and Lean / Agile methodologies.
  • Effective and flexible communication, interpersonal, and mentoring skills.
  • Ability to coach and support a team in serving leadership capacity for the Scrum / Kanban Team.
  • Ability to adapt to constantly changing environment and needs.
  • Ability to handle ambiguity.
  • Expertise in Jira-Align, Jira and Confluence.
Responsibilities
  • Act as a bridge between Product Management and Engineering Agile Teams. Remove barriers between stakeholders and Teams. Help teams execute on a shared vision.
  • Be the advocate of Customer / Product Management for the Engineering teams and be the advocate of Engineering teams for the Product Management as part of the Agile team.
  • Demonstrate accountability for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Agile Team in alignment with the broader Product Management strategy and roadmap. Involve in day-to-day activities with the team.
  • Manage the Team’s Team Backlog effectively, which includes and not limited to developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal and Sprint Goal for the sprint, creating and clearly communicating Team Backlog items for the Agile team, ordering Team Backlog items, and ensuring that the Team Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.
  • Team Backlog Management is expected to be performed in collaboration with Product Managers, Architects, internal stakeholders, customer representatives and Agile Team to formulate, create and clearly communicate Team Backlog items. Anticipate their needs, have a conversation, and translate them into Team Backlog collaboratively.
  • Effectively breakdown the product requirements into minimal marketable, demonstratable / testable backlog items by negotiating the acceptance criteria for features and user stories (USs) with the development team. Prioritize and order user stories (USs) and ensure work aligns with product management strategy.
  • Maintain a healthy Team Backlog that exhibits DEEP (Detailed appropriately, Estimated, Emergent, and Prioritized) Characteristics of. Anchor the practice of Definition of Ready.
  • Represent the needs of many stakeholders including Product Management in the Team’s Team Backlog.
  • Practice scrum events in both spirit and letter. Provide continuous feedback to the Agile team and accept / reject the deliverables from the Agile team in alignment with the acceptance criteria and Definition of Done. Participate in the team retrospectives.
  • Help and guide the Agile Teams during the Sprint Review and Demo. Provide constructive feedback.
  • Use engineering tools such as Jira-Align, Jira and Confluence to create, track and manage Team Backlog items.

Wind River provides embedded systems software platforms for mission-critical industries. Its products include VxWorks RTOS for deterministic real-time performance, Wind River Linux as a configurable Linux-based OS, plus development tools and compilers to build and optimize software, with security updates and services. It differentiates itself with an end-to-end embedded software stack and a long track record in aerospace/defense, emphasizing safety, security, and bounded performance. Its goal is to help customers design, deploy, and maintain reliable, secure embedded systems for critical applications.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$5.2B

Headquarters

Alameda, California

Founded

1981

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What believers are saying

  • Vodafone partnership deploys AI-RAN on Open RAN in 2026.
  • AMD collaboration unifies O-RAN and AI-RAN on EPYC CPUs.
  • Hyundai Rotem adopts Studio for software-defined rail CI/CD.

What critics are saying

  • Aptiv diverts resources to automotive, eroding aerospace VxWorks share.
  • Zephyr RTOS undercuts VxWorks licensing in IoT by 2027.
  • BlackBerry QNX captures Hyundai Mobis SDV deals via BMW partnerships.

What makes Wind River unique

  • VxWorks RTOS powers mission-critical systems since 1987.
  • Wind River Studio enables cloud-native development for edge-to-cloud.
  • Helix Virtualization Platform consolidates safety-certified workloads.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k) Company Match

Hybrid Work Options

Flexible Work Hours

Mental Health Support

Professional Development Budget

Company News

DataCenterNews
Mar 16th, 2026
Wind River and Vodafone test AI-RAN automation to manage growing Open RAN complexity

Wind River and Vodafone test AI-RAN automation to manage growing Open RAN complexity. Last updated: March 16, 2026 10:32 am Published March 16, 2026 Wind River and Vodafone introduced a collaboration to operationalize AI-RAN for Open RAN Networks showcased at MWC Barcelona 2026 earlier this month. AI-RAN transforms the anomaly detection from hours lengthy to minutes, permitting for autonomous community operation based mostly on reside community conduct. "Open RAN basically modifications how networks are constructed; AI-RAN modifications how they're operated," remarked Paul Miller, CTO, Wind River. "Operators are shifting from static infrastructure to dynamic, software-defined environments the place complexity grows quicker than human operators can handle. Our collaboration with Vodafone demonstrates how AI-RAN can flip operational information into steady intelligence, enabling networks that detect points earlier, adapt quicker, and transfer nearer to autonomous operation. Collectively, we're displaying how AI-RAN can change into the operational spine of next-generation telecom infrastructure." The answer is powered by Vodafone's O-Cloud platform mixed with its 5G community, and Wind River Cloud Platform for real-time analytics and predictive decision of points. The partnership is geared to chop operational bills, improve service reliability, and deal with the expansion of bigger and distributed networks with out comparable will increase in human capital. AI-RAN replaces reactive troubleshooting with proactive and autonomous community administration, optimizing telecom infrastructure efficiency. The joint answer demonstrates that AI-RAN is now a deployable functionality, addressing the telecom business's want for operational scalability. Late final yr Vodafone expanded Open RAN rollout in Europe with Wind River's cloud platform. Associated. 5G networks | AI-RAN | community automation | Open RAN | telecom infrastructure | Vodafone | Wind River

Business Wire
Mar 2nd, 2026
Wind River and AMD launch unified O-RAN and AI-RAN platform to cut infrastructure costs

Wind River, an Aptiv company, is collaborating with AMD to deliver what it claims is the industry's first commercially available platform unifying open radio access network functions and AI-powered RAN workloads on shared hardware. The solution combines AMD EPYC CPUs with Wind River Cloud Platform. The platform addresses operators' infrastructure challenges by enabling virtualized RAN functions and AI inference to run side by side, eliminating the need for separate systems that can double capital costs. It supports real-time AI capabilities including traffic prediction, anomaly detection and energy optimisation at the network edge. The jointly engineered solution features automated lifecycle management across thousands of distributed sites and allows operators to add AI capabilities without hardware replacement. Live demonstrations are available at MWC Barcelona 2026.

Business Wire
Feb 27th, 2026
Wind River and Vodafone demonstrate AI-RAN operations for Open RAN networks

Wind River and Vodafone are collaborating to operationalise AI-RAN for Open RAN networks, with the joint solution being showcased at MWC Barcelona from 2–5 March. The solution continuously ingests telemetry streams across RAN and cloud layers, using AI models to detect deviations, predict issues and guide remediation before customer experience is affected. Built on Vodafone's 5G network and Wind River Cloud Platform with Wind River Analytics, it processes over 70TB of network data weekly. The technology reduces anomaly detection time from hours to minutes and enables operators to manage larger Open RAN networks without proportional increases in operational costs. The collaboration demonstrates AI-RAN's shift from future concept to deployable operational capability for autonomous network management.

TelecomTV
Jan 21st, 2026
Intel's and Wind River's roles in Vodafone's European Open RAN rollout

Intel's and Wind River's roles in Vodafone's European Open RAN rollout. Jan 21, 2026 Embed Transcript Sponsored by Cristina Rodriguez, Intel Corporation & Nastasi Karaiskos, Wind River. In this interview from Fyuz 2025 in Dublin, Cristina Rodriguez of Intel and Nastasi Karaiskos of Wind River share their companies' roles in Vodafone's European Open RAN rollout. They discuss the significance of deploying open and virtualised network architectures, the impact of Intel's Xeon 6 system-on-chip (SoC) with built-in AI, and Wind River's focus on network optimisation and sustainability. Featuring: * Cristina Rodriguez, VP Network & Edge Group, Intel Corporation * Nastasi Karaiskos, VP Global Sales, Telecom, Wind River Recorded November 2025

Telematics Wire
Nov 13th, 2025
Wind River & Hyundai Rotem partner to transform rail software development

Wind River & Hyundai Rotem partner to transform rail software development. Press Release, 13 November 2025 Wind River, a leader in edge-software for mission-critical systems, has announced a significant collaboration with Hyundai Rotem aimed at modernising its rail-system development environment. Over decades of partnership (Hyundai Rotem has been a Wind River - VxWorks customer for around 30 years), the two firms are now moving toward a cloud-native, software-defined approach that promises faster development, improved automation and increased agility. Under the deal, Hyundai Rotem will adopt Wind River's Studio Developer platform and Cloud Platform infrastructure, enabling use of modern DevOps practices like continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and cloud-native deployment. Meanwhile, Wind River's real-time operating system VxWorks will continue to power Hyundai Rotem's safety-certified signalling and train-control systems. This hybrid architecture supports both legacy safety workloads and newer, agile applications - critical in the transportation environment where reliability and security are non-negotiable. The move signals Hyundai Rotem's shift toward software-defined rail systems - a transformation expected to reduce time-to-market, cut costs and bolster innovation across its rail-vehicle and smart-logistics portfolios. At the same time, Wind River gains a strong reference in rail and smart-mobility, reinforcing its position in the intelligent-transportation ecosystem.

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