Product Manager Visual Systems

About FlightSafety International

FlightSafety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

Purpose of Position

Perform Product Management and engineering tasks that include technical planning, cost and risk assessment, system integration, verification, and validation. Analyses are conducted at all system levels, requirement analysis, risk analysis, functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, design, testing, installation, integration, operation, and customer support. Focus on market, customer, and user requirements; developing and synthesizing them to relevant products; and all levels of communication, including customer, market, industry, executive management, and development / program teams.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Communicates product vision including customers and market from the highest levels of executive leadership to development and implementation teams. Investigates, selects, and drives the continual development of products. Considers numerous factors such as intended demographic, products offered by the competition, and how well the product fits with the company's business model and strategy.
• Fully understands Product user requirements and value to customer in order to positively impact Product Management.
• Recognized as an expert and or leader, guides, troubleshoots; has strategic focus; applies intensive and diversified knowledge and skill. Demonstrates knowledge of trends in field; leads in developing new processes and or capabilities and high impact projects. Uses advanced techniques; modifies or extends theories, precepts, and practices of own field and related disciplines. Provides training to department members when required.
• Has technical responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating assignments. Plans and develops products with significant company impact. Acts independently on technical matters and assignments in terms of general objectives and limits.
• Interacts frequently with management, technical staff, business development, marketing, and outside customer contacts to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations.
• Communicantes effectively with Teammates as required about assignments and results.
• Must be a team player, able to work comfortably and effectively with team members, program stakeholders, and senior personnel using strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Controls the direction of the product, its roadmap and its features. Manages a roadmap backlog and sprint planning with development team.
• Travel is required for customer interfacing, technical interchange meetings, on-site technical support, product demonstrations, and other special events.
• Contributes to reports and apprises management of technical progress.
• Determines customers' needs by specifying the research needed to obtain market information.
• Recommends the nature and scope of present and future product lines by reviewing product specifications and requirements; appraising new product ideas and or product or packaging changes.
• Assesses market competition by comparing the company's product to competitors' products
• Provides source data for product line communications by defining product marketing communication objectives.
• Obtains product market share to develop product sales strategies.
• Assesses product market data.
• Facilitates technology insertion and implementation plannng related to Supply Chain and Production.
• Brings new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses; establishing time schedules with engineering and manufacturing.
• Introduces and markets new products by developing time-integrated.
• Remains current on state of the art technologies through review of technical papers, periodicals, and attending meetings and conferences.

Minimum Education

Minimum Experience

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities