Technical Product Owner Biometric Devices (Open also to Protected Categories, Law 6899)
Grugliasco - Italy
Job Summary
MAIN MISSION:
Own the end-to-end technical realization and lifecycle of the Biometric Devices
product family translating product strategy and business priorities defined by the
Product Line Manager into an executable technical product and development plan.
Act as the single point of technical product ownership ensuring product integrity
cross-domain alignment and delivery across Mechanics Optics Electronics and
SDK domains
RESPONSABILITIES:
- Own the technical product plan and backlog translating business priorities and product requirements into structured technical work priorities and development sequencing
- Manage the technical product lifecycle from concept through development industrialization release maintenance evolution and end-of-life
- Lead new product development projects at product level defining and maintainingthe integrated project plan key milestones cross-domain dependencies risks and overall delivery status while the Domain Managers own detailed execution and resource allocation within their respective domains
- Make and document product-level technical decisions and trade-offs across scope schedule cost performance quality and risk within agreed business priorities
- Ensure technical product integration and consistency of interfaces and domain deliverables working closely with the Domain Managers (Electronics Mechanics Optics and SDK) and the Product Architect
- Own product-level technical decisions and their rationale; rely on the Product
- Architect and Domain Managers for technical depth and recommendations without overriding domain expertise or substituting for it
- Act as the primary interface between Product Line and R&D providing clear feedback on feasibility effort constraints dependencies risks and delivery implications
- Maintain a product-level view of risks and dependencies across the full lifecycle beyond individual projects driving their resolution or escalation
- Drive product readiness through technical reviews and agreed validation industrialization and release criteria
- Partner with Quality & Process functions to ensure compliance with applicable quality regulatory certification and internal process requirements
- Coordinate the technical assessment of significant post-release manufacturing support and customer issues and drive appropriate product improvement actions
- Provide technical product expertise during customer discussions RFPs and strategic reviews
- Contribute to the long-term technical evolution of the Biometric Devices
- The role has no direct reports; the Product Owner leads through product ownership and cross-domain influence with Domain Managers owning line management and resource allocation within their domains
EXPERIENCE:
- 12 years of experience in complex product development including roles such as Product Architect Technical Product Owner System Engineer IVVQ Engineer or Technical Project Lead
- Hands-on engineering experience in at least one of mechanics optics electronics or embedded software - including direct contribution to design integration or verification
- Experience with HW/SW integration interface specifications verification validation and system-level troubleshooting
- Proven experience in the development industrialization or deployment of complex electronic or electro-mechanical products
- Demonstrated experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering activities across mechanics optics electronics and embedded software domains
- Proven experience leading technical product development projects includingplanning milestones dependencies risks and technical trade-off
- Experience with biometric technologies and products including fingerprint and iris is a must
- Experience working in international or geographically distributed R&D environments is an advantage
About Company
In all critical environments - air, land, sea, space and cyberspace - decision-makers, operators, crews and members of our armed services and security forces are faced with millions of important decisions every day. It is in supporting these people that Thales in the United States ha ... View more