Data & AI Product Owner - Shape Data-Driven Air Solutions

As a Data & AI Product Owner, you develop and maintain the visionfor your Data & AI products and services; you set the prioritieswith the team and with your main stakeholders. You discuss futureevolutions aligned with the strategy of skeyes and you make surebusiness demands are clearly known and prioritized. You areresponsible for maintaining operational excellence of the activitiesand services and to foresee Life-Cycle Management, Data and ServiceContinuity Plans and Monitoring.

Your role stands as a bridge between Business/Operations, IT and Data& AI expertise, and you promote communication between all parties.You will influence and inspire multiple stakeholders in differentfunctions to change ways of working. You will learn quickly and beable to partner with all stakeholders, demonstrating that youunderstand their business, their concerns and bring them value throughData & AI Products and Services.

You will be joining skeyes’ innovative Data & AI team. Withseveral years of experience, we've successfully launchedgroundbreaking products like Europe's first CISP for unmanned trafficmanagement. Now, we're setting our sights on ambitious yet realisticData & AI goals to help keep skeyes at the forefront of theindustry by enhancing operations and bringing even greater safety andcapacity to Belgian skies..

What does a Data & AI Product Owner do at skeyes?

• Work together with your stakeholders (Support Services team, HR,Finance, Communications, Strategy, CEO) and contributors (Admin IT,data engineers and analysts, data stewards, etc) to build andmaintain innovative ‘data products and services’ serving theirneeds. Together with your manager you will develop a vision andstrategy regarding these data products, guaranteeing good qualityand trustworthy content.
• Identify solutions and product increments; you determine thenecessary features and manage the backlog. Application ofunderstanding of business priorities to keep an up-to-date productbacklog and ensure the correct items are prioritized fordevelopment. Ensure that the solutions are continuously supportedand optimized by adding or adapting new features as the businessstrategy changes. Follow best practices to ensure user stories aredetailed and contain the required information and acceptancecriteria (Definition of Ready and Definition of Done) to support development.
• Help the team to understand the data product vision andrequirements and convert them into data applications and solutions.This should result in a number of concrete deliverables that can beused by the stakeholders (e.g., setting up data quality controls,defining acceptance criteria, enriching the data & AI platformfor future innovative usages, guidelines for integration, …).
• Implementation & Rollout Planning: Work with business and ITstakeholders to effectively plan the rollout, training and businesssupport required to ensure a smooth planned implementation whichenables benefits rapidly whilst minimizing any negative disruptionto the business.
• Usage & Adoption: Focus on delivering the business value byfocusing on the usage and adoption of the AI & Data Products(solution and services), while meeting the aligned expectations onthe delivery.

What makes you the ideal Data & AI Product Owner?

• You have a Master's degree in a quantitative field (Engineering,Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Aviation Management ora related field with emphasis on analytics and/or statistics).
• You have at least 3-5 years of experience working with Data,Analytics and AI products and services.
• A strong understanding of air traffic management concepts,airspace utilization, flight procedures, regulations, and safetystandards is a plus.
• You are proficient in several common data analysis andvisualization tools such as Power BI, SQL, Python.
• You have a pragmatic and solution-oriented mindset for productdevelopment with the ability to translate business needs into clearproduct requirements and define strategic roadmaps.
• You are knowledgeable in project management practices. Awarenessof software development lifecycle and experience with the Agile orScrum Methodology are a plus. You have experience with managingprojects that include AI solutions and advanced analytics (e.g.,smart assistant, predictive analytics, Machine Learning, etc...).
• You can influence people and handle conflicting situations in aneffective and diplomatic way.
• You excel in team spirit, collaborating seamlessly withcross-functional teams to achieve common goals and deliverhigh-quality products.
• You have excellent listening skills and the ability to askinsightful questions, ensuring a deep and empathic understanding ofstakeholder needs and project requirements.
• You are a good communicator and facilitator with the ability toeffectively present complex technical concepts