Senior Product Owner

Sr. Product Owner - US

Why We Need You – The Mission

Veryon is a leading software and technology company that exists to enable aviation teams around the world to improve efficiency and safety. Our products maximize uptime for aircraft maintenance teams through our customer driven innovation and world class customer service.

Veryon has more than 7,500 customers in 137 countries, we service general and business aviation, military/defense, commercial aviation, and OEM industries. Our core values drive us, in business, internally, and in our everyday lives.

We're searching for a passionate and strategic leader to join the Veryon Product Management team. As the Senior Product Owner for Veryon, you will lead the product strategy, vision, and plan, ensuring Veryon Tracking remains at the forefront of the industry. You'll be responsible for crafting a data-driven product roadmap that prioritizes features that directly address our customers' most pressing challenges. Your deep understanding of the market and keen ability to translate customer needs into actionable solutions will be instrumental in driving significant financial growth for Veryon.

What You’ll Accomplish - Your Performance Objectives

In your first 30 days, you will immerse and integrate yourself into the organization. Listen, learn, absorb, ask questions, document, internalize business goals, and establish your scope of focus with the larger organization.

• Dive deep into the Veryon Tracking product, roadmap, backlog, and user base.
• Meet with stakeholders across the organization (engineering, marketing, sales, customer success) to understand their roles and perspectives on the product.
• Shadow Product development ceremonies, including daily standups, design reviews, demonstrations, and iteration retrospectives.

In your first 3 months and on an ongoing basis, you will refine the product roadmap, execute key initiatives, and engage stakeholders to drive alignment and deliver tangible results.

• Complete a comprehensive market analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and threats.
• Partner with UX/UI and others to interview users, validate designs and requirements, gather, and summarize feedback from customer users.
• Lead the development of key product initiatives, working closely with engineering, to ensure alignment and execution of epics and user stories.
• Work closely with Product Marketing to prepare and execute a go-to-market strategy for any planned product innovation.

After your first 6 months and on an ongoing basis, you will drive the success of the Veryon Tracking product through strategic vision, execution excellence, and a deep understanding of market needs.

• Have a deep understanding of Veryon Tracking’s features, benefits, use cases, and competitive advantages.
• Continuously collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine and prioritize the product roadmap based on customer feedback, market research, and business objectives.
• Analyze competition and industry advancements to ensure product competitiveness.
• Evaluate potential partnerships, acquisitions, or integrations to enhance the value proposition and capabilities of Veryon Tracking.
• Iterate on product features and experiences through A/B testing, user research, and experimentation to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
• Track key performance indicators (KPIs) and make data-driven decisions about product direction.
• Develop and present product updates and progress reports to stakeholders.

Who We’re Looking For - The Personal Competencies That Matter

• Initiative. We lead by example in the Product organization. You will seek proactive solutions to problems or roadblocks and be able to pull people together towards our common goals.
• Business acumen. You have the ability to understand the desired strategic outcomes for Veryon and effectively prioritize market needs, problems, and solutions with these outcomes in mind.
• Skilled communicator. You have the ability to be clear and concise in all methods of communication—verbal and written—with an understanding that effective communication is key given the remote state of most of our employees.
• Leadership and Mentorship: Provide leadership and mentorship to junior members of the product team, fostering their professional growth and development. Lead by example, demonstrating best practices in product management and inspiring excellence in others.
• Focus: Maintain a deep understanding of customer needs and pain points, advocating for the customer throughout the product development process. Champion a customer-centric mindset across the organization to ensure that product decisions are driven by customer value.
• Orientation: Set ambitious but achievable goals for product success, and drive the team towards meeting or exceeding these goals. Take ownership of product outcomes and demonstrate a relentless focus on delivering business results.
• Discipline: Sets clear priorities, objectives, and plans for teams and crisply communicates throughout the organization. Stays disciplined against product management best practices while balancing against pragmatic objectives of the Company.

How we work – The Core Values that Define Our Culture

Fueled By Customers: We work hard so our customers can get more uptime. A customer-centered approach is on the forefront of our minds. We’re big on transparent communication with our customers, and we celebrate their wins internally because we love the positive impact we’re making on their lives.

Win Together: We focus on the “we” and not the “me”. Collaboration is key, we value diverse backgrounds and skill sets. Our mission is to win as a team, we think everyone plays an integral part in our success.

Make it Happen: When we make a commitment, we get it done. We take a proactive approach, we commit, we adapt to evolving landscapes and problems, we tackle problems at every difficulty level.

Innovate to Elevate: We set the standard in aviation by embracing and advancing cutting edge technology. We take a fail-forward approach using everything as a learning experience. We encourage creativity and experimentation within our teams. This helps us set the bar high and provide world class expertise in aviation.