Technical Product Owner: Thermal Battery Scale-up

As part of its development, Water Horizon is strengthening and structuring its Engineering department and is recruiting a Technical Product Owner. As part of a new position, your main objectives will be to support the technological developments of the Water Horizon project by guaranteeing the value and quality of the product/service throughout its life cycle.

Keywords:

TechnicalProduct Owner, Scale-up, Technology, Innovation, Sustainable Energy

Hierarchical attachment

Reporting to the Head of the Engineering Department

Your challenges:

As part of this new position:

• Implement and structure the Technical Product Owner function within Water Horizon, defining the necessary methods, tools, and rituals to sustainably anchor a product culture.
• Create a cross-functional product culture: Connecting customer, market, technical, and operations.
• Secure the development of thermal batteries from design to market, integrating technical constraints, costs, risks, and industrialization.
• Enhancing product performance in the field: Quality, reliability, standardization, ROI, customer satisfaction.
• Streamline product management: lessons learned, evolutions, arbitration, roadmap, documentation.

Your missions:

Product development management

• Define, maintain, and evolve the functional and technical specifications for thermal batteries.
• Build and drive the product roadmap in alignment with market needs, field feedback, and strategic priorities.
• Propose and arbitrate product evolutions (performance, functionality, standardization, industrialization).
• Ensure cross-functional consistency between engineering, automation, business, and operations.

Market intelligence, monitoring, and product strategy

• Carry out continuous technological and competitive monitoring to anticipate trends, disruptions, and opportunities.
• Translate market needs into product specifications and strategic recommendations.
• Contribute to preparing product positioning (segmentation, competitiveness, differentiation).

Terrain interface & continuous improvement

• Manage the capitalization of lessons learned.
• Gather and analyze user feedback: customers, operations, maintenance, partners.
• Identify, prioritize, and conduct corrective and continuous improvement actions.
• Work closely with field teams to ensure product robustness, reliability, and maintainability.

Product performance monitoring

• Track product KPIs: reliability, costs, margins, ROI, customer satisfaction, operational performance.
• Propose and manage action plans to correct deviations or improve performance.
• Contribute to product standardization to support industrialization and scalability.

Documentation and commercial support

• Build and maintain the product documentation package (technical files, specifications, standards, diagrams, procedures).
• Draft commercial technical documentation: product sheets, sales pitches, presentations, notices.
• Collaborate with business teams to ensure a thorough understanding of the product and consistent messaging with clients.

Internal Team Support

• Support the production, installation, and maintenance teams in their technical understanding of the product.
• Provide Level 2/3 support for complex issues encountered in operations.
• Participate in product to production transfer during industrialization phases.

Your profile:

Required degrees

Master's degree (engineering school or equivalent) in one of the following fields: Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Energy, Industrial Engineering.Appreciated MBA or MS in Innovation, Product Marketing, or Industrial Management.Certified Product Owner / Product Manager.

Experience

Required experience of 10 years minimum, including

• a successful first experience on a similar function
• and at least one year of professional experience in the energy or chemical sectors

Required skills

Techniques

• Understand physicochemical phenomena (reactions, heat transfer, mass transfer, mass/energy balances).
• Read, interpret, and produce technical documentation (PFD, P&ID, Bill of Materials, Technical Specifications).
• Product ownership: Implementation of PLM methods and tools, product vision and roadmap.
• Project management: cross-functional coordination, planning, document management.

Personal and behavioral

• Ability to communicate with technical profiles and understand complex technological challenges.
• Comfortable in integrated organizations (complete value chain).
• Autonomy, organization, initiative, and prioritization skills.
• Creative and entrepreneurial.
• Excellent internal relations (reporting) and with clients, creativity in negotiations, sense of service, and a focus on lasting business relationships.

Compensation:

Between 60 and 75 K€ gross depending on profiles and experience, variable included

In summary:

You are proactive, innovative, and creative.

You are autonomous with a strong team spirit.

Then this position is for you!

For all applications, please send your resume, cover letter, and references to:

Lise Mallier