Technical Product Owner

• Product Strategy & Leadership: Help define and communicate product vision and roadmaps, prioritize features based on user feedback and contract requirements. Collaborate with senior leadership to ensure strategies align with business and technical goals
• Stakeholder Management: Work closely with customers, engineers and program leadership to refine product backlogs and align team priorities. Bridge technical and business teams, lead technical interchange meetings, customer reviews and planning activities, and participate in design reviews as a key software engineering stakeholder.
• Agile Development: Manage product backlogs and break down complex capabilities into achievable program increments, Features and User Stories. Partner with Scrum Masters on feature understanding, acceptance criteria, and active participation in agile ceremonies including standups, planning, and retrospectives.
• Technical Guidance: Provide technical direction leveraging deep software engineering understanding. Support technical scope decomposition, mentor teams on CI/CD best practices, and stay with industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Performance Management: Define KPIs and track metrics to measure product success, monitor user satisfaction and adoption, oversee delivery from conception through sprints/iterations, and manage risk mitigation throughout the development lifecycles

*This list is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities.

Demonstrated technical team leadership abilities, excellent communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders, strong analytical problem-solving capabilities, and self-direction in fast paced environments

Software Development Background with knowledge of object-oriented programming (C++, C#, Java, Python) and component architectures, solid agile/Scrum experience, proficiency with ALM tools (JIRA, Confluence), CI/CD Pipelines, Cloud Platforms, and Software Debugging/optimization, Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, US DoD Secret or Higher

Minimum Years of Experience

Bachelor’s degree in STEM, Computer Science or related field

Eight (8) years in software engineering and product management or Product Owner technical experience, * Experience in specialized domains such as mission planning, military aircraft avionics or defense systems

• Knowledge of emerging technologies including generative AI, machine learning frameworks, or scientific workflows
• Experience with large, complex systems development or related systems engineering experience

Advanced Technical Skills

• Experience in specialized domains such as mission planning, military aircraft avionics or defense systems
• Knowledge of emerging technologies including generative AI, machine learning frameworks, or scientific workflows
• Experience with large complex systems development or related systems engineering experience, * Previous experience in startup or fast-paced environments
• Track record of delivering innovative solutions and driving technical transformation
• Experience promoting culture of continuous learning and cross-team collaboration
• Ability to inspire and guide cross-functional temas toward successful product delivery
• Comfortable with presenting to large groups