Product Owner SME

• Support the SMPES Product Owner in defining and prioritizing product backlogs.
• Translate operational needs into clear, actionable use case diagrams, use case descriptions, activity, diagrams, and operational scenarios.
• Coordinate with users, requirements managers, program managers, and development teams to clarify requirements and priorities.
• Conduct requirements elicitation with users, operators, requirements managers, and PMO personnel.
• Coordinate with users and refine operational scenarios, problem sets, need statements, and requirements artifacts.
• Support Product Owner standups, sprint-ahead planning, executive sprint reviews, backlog reviews, and related agile delivery activities.
• Lead or support recurring backlog reviews, prioritization sessions, and release-planning activities.
• Validate backlog accuracy, clarify operationally focused language, identify dependencies and risks, and align candidate work with operational priorities.
• Coordinate near-term actions, identify impediments and dependencies, and synchronize requirements, development, testing, usability, and fielding activities.
• Coordinate with users and testing organizations to support capability demonstrations, usability sessions, operational assessments, and fielding activities.
• Train functional managers, requirements managers, and other stakeholders on backlog prioritization, requirements documentation, and use of collaboration tools.
• Identify issues requiring leadership awareness, decisions, advocacy, or cross-organizational coordination.
• Track the progress of features and ensure timely delivery.
• Ensure alignment between mission goals, priorities, and technical execution.
• Prepare and present capability updates, reports, and stakeholder briefings.

Minimum Experience:

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen

Clearance: Must possess and maintain a TS w/SCI eligibility

Education: Bachelor’s degree

Years of Experience: Minimum 12 years of relevant experience including:

• Minimum of 5 years supporting the DoW
• Demonstrated experience translating operational or mission needs into written requirements, use cases, scenarios, workflows, or similar capability-development artifacts.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence, or comparable tools for backlog management, requirements traceability, status reporting, and stakeholder coordination.
• Experience facilitating meetings with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and resolving competing priorities, dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to brief senior leaders and develop concise decision-support products.
• Ability to analyze user feedback and operational observations, identify priorities, and recommend practical capability improvements.
• Ability to work independently while coordinating across a broad stakeholder network.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience as a Product Owner, product manager, or operational requirements lead.
• Experience supporting agile software development processes, release planning, usability assessments, capability demonstrations, and operational fielding.
• Experience in mission planning, targeting, command and control, operational planning, or another directly relevant mission domain.
• Experience designing or improving requirements management and capability delivery processes.
• Experience delivering stakeholder training on requirements methods, collaboration tools, or backlog management practices.