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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Product Owner SME - **Company:** Apogee, Inc. - **Location:** Offutt Air Force Base, NE, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Collaborative Software, Release Management, Requirements Management, Requirements Traceability, Atlassian Tools - **Published:** September 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9183088/product-owner-sme ## About the Role 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. ## Description * 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. ## Related Videos - [ShapeShift: Reinventing Agile for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1655-shapeshift-reinventing-agile-for-a-b2b-saas-scale-up) - [Why the “What” and “How” of A Requirement Are Not Enough](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1934-why-the-what-and-how-of-a-requirement-are-not-enough) - [How to govern Vibe Coding for the Enterprise](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100290-how-to-govern-vibe-coding-for-the-enterprise) - [The Future of Developer Experience with GenAI: Driving Engineering Excellence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1107-the-future-of-developer-experience-with-genai-driving-engineering-excellence) - [The user in the eye of the Cargo1492 storm](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/96-the-user-in-the-eye-of-the-cargo1492-storm) - [How to Survive The Worst Launch of Your Career with Brenda Romero](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/609-how-to-survive-the-worst-launch-of-your-career-with-brenda-romero) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Why Attend a Developer Event in 2026?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/688-why-attend-a-developer-event-in-2026) - [What is product discovery and why do developers need it?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/517-what-is-product-discovery-and-why-do-developers-need-it) - [What Makes WeAreDevelopers World Congress Different From Every Other Tech Event?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/701-what-makes-wearedevelopers-world-congress-different-from-every-other-tech-event) - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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