Barco Control Rooms

The Barco Control Rooms business unit is making workflow and visualization solutions for the Control Room market since 1994 to help operators collect, visualize and share critical information for optimal mission-critical decision making.

Barco CTRL is our latest flagship software product. It is a simple, scalable and secure platform, that gives an operator full control over the information flow in an easy and intuitive way for faster and efficient decision making.

Key responsibilities

As R&D Manager in the media platform team of Barco CTRL you will be responsible to:

• Lead by example and support the team in adapting to changes in technology, processes and organizational structure
• Coach, mentor, empower team members to reach their full potential through regular feedback, goal setting and career planning
• Collaborate with global teams to create a positive and inclusive team culture
• Represent the customer needs and ensure these are clearly and transparently communicated to the scrum teams during the different agile ceremonies.
• Define, prioritize and maintain a healthy product backlog as primary tool for scrum team by collaborating with feature team product owners, product managers, UX, architects, scrum teams, security and service teams
• Maximise the value of the product from the available velocity of the development teams in a continuous and incremental way, ensuring continuous delivery of vertical slices of end-2-end feature value
• Define and guard non-functional requirements of the product backlog by collaborating with Architects and scrum teams
• Plan and execute program increments by collaborating with fellow Product Owners, and communicate clearly and proactively on progress, risk and impact of decisions and their trade-off.
• Proactively incorporate customer feedback in the product backlog to deliver best customer experience

Who are we looking for?

• B.E./B.Tech./M.S./M.Tech. from a reputed institute
• 15 years of total industry experience in implementing software products, with 5 years of relevant experience as R&D manager in multicultural global teams
• Experience in creating high performance agile teams
• Demonstrated ability to think pragmatically to implement, processes and technology to develop great products and teams
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, customer experience, product development, non-functional requirements, process improvements
• Ability to understand digital customer journey, user experience and translate it to product backlog to deliver incremental customer value
• Ability to lead conversations in a room with UX, architects, product managers, scrum teams
• Extensive experience in working with scaled agile environment with geographically distributed teams to delivery high quality software with speed
• Seasoned in working with Jira tool for product backlog management
• High emotional quotient, self-driven, shows leadership in complex and ambiguous situations
• Strong communication, interpersonal and leadership skills with ability to coach and develop a team.
• Experience in performance management, talent development and employee engagement.

Let's wow you with

•    A variety of inhouse trainings at our Barco University so you can continuously grow & learn as a professional.
•    A healthy working environment with interesting workshops, sport activities, diverse & fresh lunch/snack breaks - with our own coffee bar and restaurant in Kortrijk - and many more options as we care about your wellbeing. 
•    The opportunity to work for an international market leader where innovation matters.