What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Manager position at Safran?
Our Technology:
Safran Federal Systems provides assured positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) solutions, and custom engineering services to U.S. Government agencies, defense organizations, and their contractors. Safran Federal Systems is authorized to work on the full spectrum of U.S. Government classified and unclassified projects, in addition to supporting strategic partnerships for key defense PNT technologies.
The Opportunity:
The Senior Product Manager is responsible for executing the strategic direction, development, and management of products within Safran Federal Systems. This role involves working with cross-functional teams to ensure that these products align with market demands, technical standards, and overarching business objectives. The ideal candidate will have proven product leadership experience and industry knowledge of PNT or related technologies.
Job Responsibilities:
Product Strategy Development: Execute the product line strategies that support overall business goals and address market needs within the industry. Define and maintain product roadmaps that align with the broader corporate vision, focusing on strategic goals, market demands, and measurable business outcomes.
Product Lifecycle Management: Manage the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to development to launch and post-launch evaluation, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. Specify market requirements for current and future products as needed.
Market Research and Analysis: Conduct thorough market research to identify trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape using insights to inform product development and positioning. Deliver Marketing Requirement Documents (MRDs) and Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) with prioritized features and corresponding justification.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work collaboratively with engineering, sales, marketing and operations to ensure successful product launches and ongoing product support. Coordinate training for the sales force, ensuring they are informed of product features, updates, and pricing to effectively position and sell the product.
Financial Management: Monitor product line performance including budget management, forecasting and profitability analysis to ensure financial targets are achieved.
Customer Engagement: Build and maintain relationships with key customers and stakeholders to gather feedback, address concerns and address product offerings.
Team Leadership:
Champion and implement product management best practices across engineering and other cross-functional stakeholders, fostering an environment conducive to innovation and continuous improvement. Provide guidance and mentorship through influence to align product initiatives with strategic objectives.
What you bring to Safran Federal Systems:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or equivalent military experience is required
- A minimum of 5 years of product development experience with an additional 5 years in product management, preferably within the aerospace and defense industry.
- Strong understanding of industry regulations and standards.
- Proven track record of successful product development and life cycle management.
- Strong analytical, strategic planning, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent leadership and team management abilities.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
- Deep industry knowledge and understanding of market dynamics.
- Ability to adapt to changing market conditions and technology trends.
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- Ability to reason logically and make sound decisions, to consider alternative and diverse perspectives, to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, to remain poised under all circumstances, and to interact effectively with people in a positive manner that engenders confidence and trust.
- Excellent writing skills with the ability to generate large documents on short timelines.
- Secret level security clearance with the willingness to travel up to 30% of the time.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
- Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
- Experience in GNSS, A-PNT, navigation, or related industries preferred.
About Safran Federal Systems:
Safran Federal Systems has been awarded as a Winner of the Rochester Metro Area Top Workplaces 2024 Award.
In 2022, Safran acquired Orolia, now Safran Trusted 4D, the world leader in Resilient PNT. At the intersection of critical infrastructure and national defense, Safran Trusted 4D solutions govern and protect the integrity of systems that shape the world. In early 2019, Orolia Defense & Security spun off as a separate entity from its parent company Orolia, with the mission of providing resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) solutions and custom engineering services to U.S. Government agencies, U.S. Defense organizations, and their contractors.
In August of 2019, Safran Federal Systems acquired Talen-X, a U.S. company specializing in advanced GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Simulation solutions and Interference, Detection, and Mitigation (IDM) technologies. Talen-X's portfolio was an ideal fit and has helped to enhance Safran FS's overall offerings. The acquisition enabled Talen-X's existing resources, operations and capabilities to be scaled and accelerated to better support the warfighter. Read the press release here.
Safran Federal Systems operates as a proxy-regulated company, Free of Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI). As such, Safran FS Defense & Security is approved to work on the full spectrum of U.S. Government classified and unclassified projects and is positioned to support strategic partnerships in the development of key PNT technologies for the defense market.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Please note this description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Salary : $100,000 - $150,000
