Product Owner Database Services

Ekinops is a French company building telecom solutions for Enterprise connectivity and a software editor providing secure communication services to Services Providers, enterprises and SMBs worldwide.

Among our software products, we provide SD-WAN and SSE (Security Service Edge) solutions designed to secure WAN and Internet routing and access for SBMs & enterprise customers through technologies such as Secure Web Gateways, CASB, DLP, ZTNA and SD-WAN.

We are on a mission to provide secured, trusted, sovereign solutions for tomorrow’s Enterprise connectivity and we need you

Role overview & context

To provide effective and extremely relevant filtering services, our security gateways rely on a custom business database and associated services, built on 20 years of experience.

Beyond our security products, our databases and services can be applied to a wide range of use cases. We have established a value proposition for third-party vendors who want to integrate advanced traffic categorization and/or real-time URL or IP classification services for various use cases (network routing, advertising, cybersecurity, forensic or intelligence analysis, etc.).

This product is at the core of our value proposition. We intend to strengthen it for the benefit of our clients - internal and external - by adding new features, services, or partnerships that will support the international growth of our security products as well as that of our OEM customers.

In this role, you will primarily work on developing our "Database Services" product line under the SASE Product Owners Director, within the Technology & Product Office of Ekinops R&D, in close collaboration with business and tech teams.

The challenges will span both Product lifecycle and Data science topics that power our specialized classification AI models. You will work across all product dimensions: the products themselves (APIs and SDKs) as well as the services that support them operationally - upstream (database feeding infrastructure & software and classification AI models) and downstream (customer portals, delivery methods), without overlooking performance management tools.

Your main responsibilities:

• Support the Product Lifecycle Manager(PLM)in defining roadmap milestones, andconduct interviews with clients, prospects, and internal partners (CSM, Sales, dev teams) to understand their operational challenges and needs.
• Work with stakeholders (PLM, R&D, CSM) to identify and measure impact and value, and design the best possible response.
• Work with the Classification team to help improve their operational efficiency and to ensure our operational flows are smooth and scale accordingly to plans.
• Build scenarios with the team and stakeholders when trade-offs are needed, make decisions with the PLM and management, then communicate them to the team.
• Track and evaluate roadmap progress with the PLM and tech leads, using estimation and progress measurement methods.
• Contribute to product and market intelligence to improve internal knowledge and identify emerging needs (AI, tech,CTI, etc.).
• Own the backlog and product objectives set by the PLM; act as an advisor and contributor to define clear, precise requirements, including success metrics and ROI.
• Anticipate and plan ahead dependencies with Ekinops’ other products teams, as Database Services are deeply embedded within Ekinops’ core value proposition
• Write specs and related artifacts (EPICs, user stories) with clear, precise acceptance criteria so the team can take ownership and achieve these goals.
• Share these artifacts with the development team and ensure open points are clarified before development starts.
• Work daily with the development team to keep the delivery workflow as smooth as possible, track progress, and raise alerts when needed.
• Identify technical debt with developers and architects, and integrate it into the backlog and roadmap.
• Ensure the team delivers value by validating completed development work.
• Report progress through the appropriate channels and keep stakeholders informed on product status.

Communicate and showcase product contributions

• Document new features and improve existing documentation with our Technical Writer.
• Prepare and run product demos with PLM and tech teams.
• Prepare product communications (internal and external) with the PLM.
• Support and coach Sales and CSM teams on new releases.

Contribute to continuous product and technology improvement

• Attend and participate in rituals (dailys, weeklies, demos, retros).
• Propose improvements to our ways of working and contribute ideas to strengthen our Product Excellence approach.
• Ensure the team maintains a minimal set of product quality standards (DoD, Do