Product Manager

Location: Noida Berger Tower, India
Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.
Present in India since 1+53, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.
Essential Functions / Key Areas of Responsibility

Works closely with engineering teams to implement product strategy

Crystallize the needs of target customers and translate those needs into technical product requirements
Define product use cases from the perspectives of end users, administrators, and service operators
Close collaboration with the market-facing Product Manager to define feature roadmaps and releases taking into account diverse stakeholder needs
Provide prioritized direction to the Engineering team for features and maintenance
Maintain knowledge on competitive offerings and be able to deliver market leading products with sustainable differentiation
Identify relevant technology opportunities for product strategy
Agile product owner and product manager in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Define product packaging and documentation requirements
Customer Focus

Work closely with customers, product support, service operations, and sales to resolve issues and problems that will affect product success
Know technical service and product capabilities, communicate their benefits and superior value and support field personnel with solution ideas
Validate product direction, and roadmap with key customers and sales
Maintain close relationships with lead customers to develop deep understanding of customer needs and perspectives, and manage their feature requests and expectations.
Training

Provide product training to sales engineers and other technical field personnel
Minimum Requirements: Skills, Experience & Education

Experience

Overall 10+ years of experience with a Minimum of 5 years of prior product owner experience, ideally managing security-based products or cloud services.
A strong background and proven results in releasing enterprise commercial software or service products.
Good understanding of the security and software marketplace.
Skills

Strong verbal and written communication skills in an international and global environment, proficiency in English.
Ability to manage tasks to closure, with cross-functional inputs.
Excellent organization and time management skills with the ability to self-prioritize tasks and work across multiple time zones.
Ineffable taste for user experience design.
Leadership skills in cross-functional teams.
Ability to effectively converse on complex topics from solution concepts to technical details with a diverse group of individuals.
Ability to transform strategic concepts into realistic roadmaps that are valuable, understandable and viable to implement.
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