Job Description Summary
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced and technical Product Owner to own and drive the product backlog and lifecycle for our D&I wireless and edge portfolio. In this role, you will act as the Content Authority for the backlog, bridging customer needs, industry standards, and R&D execution. You will partner closely with systems engineering, R&D, NPI (New Product Introduction), and global cross-functional teams to deliver secure, highly reliable industrial wireless and edge platforms for utility and critical infrastructure customers.
Job Description
Location: Massy or Hybrid in France with 3 days in Massy office
Reports To: Senior Product Manager
Segment: Grid Automation / Digital & Infrastructure (D&I)
Key Roles & Responsibilities
1. Backlog Ownership & Requirements
Backlog Management: Own and maintain the product backlog; translate portfolio strategy and multi-year roadmaps into prioritized epics, features, and enablers.
Content Authority: Make explicit trade-offs across scope, cost, schedule, and quality, ensuring a release-ready backlog ahead of each planning cycle.
Requirements Definition: Translate customer insights, field feedback, and standards obligations into clear, testable system requirements—including non-functional requirements (coverage, latency, availability, cybersecurity, environmental ratings).
Traceability & Change Control: Maintain requirements traceability and change control; assess and communicate the impact of scope changes on committed release plans.
2. Product Execution & Lifecycle
Portfolio Ownership: Own backlog and release execution across wireless platforms, including: Private LTE / PLTE Core & RAN
Wireless Edge devices and industrial IoT platforms
Edge Applications for Distribution Automation (e.g., Smart RTU, protocol conversion)
Broadband power line communications
Microwave and narrowband radio systems
R&D & NPI Partnership: Act as the "voice of the customer" to R&D and NPI program teams. Lead backlog refinement, support Program Increment (PI) Planning and NPI tollgate reviews, and validate delivered value against acceptance criteria and the Definition of Done.
Architecture & Dependencies: Partner with System Architects to balance feature content against architectural/platform enabler work, managing cross-team and supplier dependencies.
Release Rhythm: Pace release content to portfolio operating rhythms, including multi-generation product plans, business plans, and NPI cycles.
Compliance & Security: Ensure product security, safety, certification, and type-approval requirements are integrated into the backlog (e.g., FCC/ISED/CE, 3GPP, IEC 62443, IEEE 1613).
Sustaining & EOL: Prioritize sustaining content (field issues, firmware maintenance, security patches, obsolescence-driven redesign) alongside new development; support product End-of-Life and installed-base migration plans.
3. Cross-Functional Collaboration
Alignment: Drive alignment across Technology/R&D, Global Supply Chain (GSC), Sourcing, Services, Quality, and Commercial teams on backlog priorities and release commitments.
Team Leadership: Partner with Technical Coordinators, Team Product Owners, and Scrum Masters to ensure team-level stories reflect customer needs and system intent.
Business Strategy: Support the Senior Product Manager with business case inputs, cost targets, and pricing structures for new platform content, while contributing to competitive and technology analysis.
4. Commercial & Customer Engagement
Voice of the Customer: Lead requirement workshops, pilots, field trials, and user acceptance testing with distribution utility and industrial customers.
Sales Enablement: Support global commercial teams, ITO (Inquiry-to-Order), and OTR (Order-to-Remittance) with release content, roadmap clarity, configuration guidance, and technical support arbitration.
Go-to-Market: Contribute to launch readiness, value propositions, sales enablement materials, and conference papers focusing on product and…