Principal Product Manager

Role Overview

Principal Product Manager at CAE. The role is accountable for the success of In-Flight solutions within the Flightscape portfolio.

Company Overview

At CAE, the mission is to help make the world a safer place. For nearly 80 years, CAE has driven innovation in simulation, training, and mission readiness to support critical operations worldwide. By leveraging advanced technologies, CAE empowers customers to operate smarter, faster, and more sustainably.

Role Purpose

Define and own the overall Product Vision and Product Strategy for In-Flight solutions, ensuring alignment between business objectives, customer needs, and priorities across multiple development teams operating within SAFe Agile Release Trains. Provide leadership across the product community to drive a shared vision and achieve business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Vision

• Contribute to the overall Flightscape portfolio strategy through collaboration with product, portfolio, technology, and platform teams.
• Define and execute the product area strategy to maximise product adoption, customer value, and commercial success.
• Guide product decisions and prioritisation activities to ensure alignment with the product vision and strategic objectives.
• Establish measurable business objectives and regularly review performance indicators to align product teams with the product vision and strategy.

Product Discovery & Insights

• Analyse airline industry needs, challenges, and market trends to identify investment opportunities.
• Enable and support product discovery activities to validate assumptions and inform investment decisions before significant development, testing, maintenance, or hosting efforts are undertaken.
• Establish and maintain continuous internal and external feedback loops to help define product priorities, leveraging customer insights and production data where available.

Stakeholder & Team Leadership

• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing product team by partnering closely with Product Marketing, Product Owners, UX, and Technology stakeholders.
• Lead product community engagement across Product Owners, Product Managers, Train Product Managers, Product Marketing Managers, UX teams, Engineering teams, and Architects.
• Build and maintain relationships with key customers and represent the organisation at industry events and customer forums within the Digital and Traveller Touchpoints domain.
• Continuously improve team effectiveness, collaboration, ways of working, and time management practices.

Platform & Commercial

• Strengthen product platform capabilities and foundations to support scalable growth and integration with development services used by airline customers.
• Manage a virtual profit and loss view with a focus on balancing revenue opportunities and cost considerations.

Sales & Execution

• Support sales readiness initiatives in partnership with Product Marketing Managers.
• Support sales enablement activities in partnership with Customer Engagement teams.
• Participate actively in Programme Increment (PI) planning events and key SAFe ceremonies.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Aviation, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Strategy, or related product leadership roles.
• 7+ years of experience in Airline catering operations.
• Experience defining and executing product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and business objectives for complex software products or platforms.
• Experience working within Agile development environments, including SAFe or other scaled Agile frameworks.
• Experience managing product portfolios and balancing customer needs, business priorities, and technical requirements.
• Experience using customer feedback, market research, analytics, and performance data to drive product decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Ability to align multiple teams and stakeholders around a common product vision and strategy.
• Experience supporting product adoption, business growth, and commercial objectives.

Additional Information

• Position Type: Regular
• CAE is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants, regardless of race, nationality, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, veteran status, age, or other characteristics protected by law.
• Reasonable accommodations are available; contact your recruiter or email CAECarrieres-Careers@cae.com if needed.
• As part of the application process, CAE may use AI-supported tools to help review applications, with human decision-making at every step.