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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Product Owner

Product ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeToulon, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Have an engineering education at Bac + 5.
  • Have at least three years of successful experience as a Product Owner in a technical, critical, and sensitive environment.
  • Have significant experience in Product Ownership or an equivalent role in an agile environment.
  • Be proficient in backlog construction, including epics, user stories, prioritization, refinement, and acceptance criteria.
  • Be able to frame needs and write user stories precise enough to enable development.
  • Understand Agile principles, such as Scrum or equivalent, and backlog practices.
  • Be able to structure, clarify, and align stakeholders through communication and facilitation.
  • Be able to work independently with rigor and organization.
  • Demonstrate rigor and focus on structuring and quality of deliverables.
  • Be able to manage change and iterate on needs.
  • Have strong listening skills to reformulate requests into actionable items.
  • Have good spoken and written English to understand, clarify, and communicate product needs, documents, and decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain backlog structure, including product vision, epics, user stories, tickets, and dependencies.
  • Ensure consistency between business objectives, epics, and stories.
  • Organize and track backlog evolution, including adjustments, reformulation, removal, and consolidation.
  • Write value-oriented user stories.
  • Define clear acceptance criteria, particularly through examples and use cases.
  • Ensure backlog quality rules are met, including item sizing, readiness to start, and completeness.
  • Participate in prioritization based on value, effort, risks, and dependencies.
  • Maintain a short- and medium-term view of what to prepare, launch, stop, or reschedule.
  • Manage trade-offs in coordination with stakeholders.
  • Contribute to agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, planning, reviews, and demos.
  • Prepare the materials the team needs to commit effectively, including ready items, questions to clarify, and dependencies.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for clarifying needs without substituting for the development team.
  • Gather and consolidate needs from business, support, users, and product leadership.
  • Translate expectations into actionable and measurable requirements.
  • Communicate priorities, scope changes, and their rationale.
  • Ensure traceability from objectives to stories and coverage of needs.
  • Contribute to tracking progress, backlog status, risks, and product debt where applicable.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of full-stack development.
  • Familiarity with microservices architectures, data-centric and secure environments, and DevOps practices.
  • Knowledge of the naval industry.

About the Company

Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Thales designs and delivers critical technology for aerospace, defense, and digital security. Its products include electronics, software, and data-security systems that power air travel, payments, and modern military platforms, by integrating hardware and software to build systems such as avionics, radar, cybersecurity, and secure communications that collect sensor data and protect networks. It stands out through deep industrial experience, end-to-end solutions across defense, aerospace, and cybersecurity, and a focus on AI and quantum tech, aided by strategic acquisitions and partial state ownership. Its goal is to provide reliable, secure, and connected technologies that support national security, public safety, and everyday life by solving complex security and connectivity challenges.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Meudon, France
Founded
1893

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