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# 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.