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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Product Owner - Clearance Required - **Company:** LMI - **Location:** Tysons, VA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $170,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Confluence, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Information Systems, Data Governance, Decision Support Systems, Scrum Methodology, Requirements Management, Service Design, User-Centered Design, Documentation System, SC Clearance - **Published:** August 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88119848/1 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in business, public administration, information systems, human resources, organizational development, design, engineering, or a related field, with at least seven years of relevant professional experience, including at least three years in a product owner, product manager, business analyst, or comparable delivery role. Additional directly relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree. * Demonstrated experience leading product ownership or requirements management for complex service, process, workflow, or digital modernization initiatives. * Experience establishing product vision and outcomes, eliciting requirements, developing user stories and acceptance criteria, prioritizing backlogs, and maintaining roadmaps. * Strong understanding of agile and lean delivery practices and experience facilitating planning, refinement, review, and retrospective activities. * Experience applying human-centered design findings and user feedback to product decisions, process improvements, and implementation priorities. * Demonstrated ability to reconcile competing stakeholder requirements and make transparent, evidence-based prioritization recommendations. * Experience managing dependencies, risks, decisions, and delivery across organizational, policy, process, data, and technology boundaries. * Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or comparable backlog, requirements, collaboration, and documentation tools. * Excellent facilitation, analytical, organizational, written, verbal, and executive communication skills. * U.S. citizenship and ability to meet government security, suitability, and system-access requirements associated with the position. * Active SECRET Clearance Preferred Qualifications * Experience supporting federal human capital, personnel services, talent acquisition, workforce analytics, or human resources technology modernization. * Experience supporting the Department of Defense, a Fourth Estate agency, or another complex federal organization. * Experience leading cross-functional teams that include designers, recruiters or workforce specialists, analysts, engineers, and government process owners. * Familiarity with federal personnel policies, privacy requirements, accessibility, records management, data governance, and organizational change considerations. * Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, PMI-ACP, PMP, Certified Business Analysis Professional, or comparable credential. * Human-centered design, service design, process improvement, Lean Six Sigma, or change-management certification. ## Description Define and maintain the product vision, desired outcomes, success measures, scope, and operating principles for assigned personnel modernization and technical talent initiatives. * Establish governance, stakeholder engagement, decision-making, and delivery rhythms appropriate to the agency's organizational environment. * Elicit, analyze, reconcile, and document requirements from leadership, users, process owners, human resources professionals, technical organizations, and implementation partners. * Translate research findings, policy constraints, operational needs, and technical dependencies into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and other actionable backlog items. * Build, refine, and prioritize the product backlog based on mission value, user impact, feasibility, urgency, risk, dependencies, and available capacity. * Develop integrated roadmaps that sequence near-term improvements, pilots, implementation activities, and longer-term modernization opportunities. * Facilitate agile planning, backlog refinement, stakeholder reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and other working sessions needed to maintain delivery momentum. * Coordinate the work of the User Experience Designer, Technical Engineer Recruiter, and Visual Designer to ensure that research, workforce analysis, design, and decision support remain aligned. * Identify and manage dependencies across people, process, policy, data, systems, security, privacy, accessibility, and organizational change. * Maintain decision, assumption, risk, issue, dependency, and action logs while elevating matters requiring government direction. * Define performance measures and feedback mechanisms, monitor outcomes, and adjust priorities based on evidence, stakeholder input, and changing mission needs. * Produce concise status updates, roadmaps, backlogs, implementation plans, and decision materials for operational and senior-level stakeholders. ## Related Videos - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [Stop Renaming Teams, Start Product Thinking: A PM's Guide to Platform-as-a-Product](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100342-stop-renaming-teams-start-product-thinking-a-pm-s-guide-to-platform-as-a-product) - [42 x 2 Canvases Later: Two Years, Two Minds, Many Lessons](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1458-42-x-2-canvases-later-two-years-two-minds-many-lessons) - [A Founder's Journey : From Startup Chaos to Purposeful Growth](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1926-a-founder-s-journey-from-startup-chaos-to-purposeful-growth) - [Would You Buy Your Own HR? 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