Senior Product Manager - Flight Planning

About This Role

Are you looking for a work environment where you can innovate, reach greater heights and collaborate with experts from a wide range of sectors? You want to join a world-class company and industry leader with projects to which you would be proud to contribute? Come share your passion with us!

We are looking for an open-minded and innovative Product Manager for our mission-critical Flight Operations solutions platform. The primary focus will be on our Flight Plan Manager tool for Airline Operations dispatch officers.

The role we are offering you:

• Designing solutions in cooperation with our Technology team and other internal and external stakeholders

• Supporting long-term product vision

• Preparing acceptance criteria and functional documentation

• Conducting customer interviews

• Conducting internal and external demos

• Product subject matter expert inside SCRUM teams

What will you achieve?  

You will analyze features and actively seek our customers’ input to understand the challenges they are facing in their operations. You will generate feature business and functional descriptions and work with our SCRUM teams to design functionalities that help solve those market problems and add value for our customers. Your business knowledge and flight operations background will be leveraged to collaborate with other groups, such as technology/development, quality assurance, and delivery, to make your products successful. 

What's in it for you? 

The aviation industry is adopting new standards, technologies, and business processes globally. You will be at the forefront of this transformation, which has far-reaching consequences for how airlines conduct their business and, therefore, their expectations of our products. We believe in a collaborative approach to every project and keep close relationships with our airline partners to support them in providing travelers with a smooth journey experience.  

Our ideal candidate has:

• Minimum of 2 years of expertise in Airline Flight Operations, with an understanding of regulatory frameworks, airspace management authorities, and civil aviation authorities worldwide, or expertise in Business Analysis.

• Comfortable collaborating with multiple cultures across numerous time zones  

• Strong innovative capacity 

• Structured and critical thinking skills, ability to distill ambiguous and complex information into meaningful insights and sometimes contradictory requirements into feasible feature designs 

• Proactive and outgoing attitude 

• Excellent team player with the ability to lead via influence, credibility through commitment to excellence, integrity, and transparency 

• Full professional fluency in the English language  

The following will be considered as a plus:

• 3 years of Airline Flight Operations or equivalent 

• Previous ATC Coordinator dealing with complex EU or FAA airspace sectors 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, IT, Aeronautical Science, and/or Master of Business Administration Degree 

• Previous experience designing, creating, and/or implementing integration of data between multiple products 

• Business Analyst experience and Technical Product Manager experience 

• Dispatch and/or Pilot license 

• Experience working with an agile development team and understanding of Scrum  

CAE offers:

• an environment where your initiatives will be recognized and valued

• the opportunity to work on a variety of projects on a multidisciplinary team

• the possibility to work from home occasionally

• flexible schedules

• attractive employee benefit

About CAE

At CAE, we equip people in critical roles with the expertise and solutions to create a safer world. As a technology company, we digitalize the physical world, deploying software-based simulation training and critical operations support solutions. Above all else, we empower pilots, cabin crew, airlines, and defence and security forces to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we’re everywhere customers need us to be with more than 13,000 employees in approximately 250 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. CAE represents more than 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight and mission simulators as well as training programs powered by digital technologies. We embed sustainability in everything we do. Today and tomorrow, we’ll make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter.

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Position Type                       

Regular

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

CAE is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender indentity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, veteran status, age, or other characteristics protected by local laws.

If you don't see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed in the job posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should contact their recruiter at any point in the recruitment process.  If you need assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].