Agile Product Owner

Primary Responsibilities

• Partner with FAA stakeholders to develop, maintain, and execute the CARES product roadmap, ensuring strategic priorities are translated into executable release plans and Agile delivery objectives.
• Collaborate with FAA leadership and program management to establish product priorities aligned with mission objectives, operational needs, contractual requirements, and modernization initiatives.
• Balance customer priorities, technical debt, regulatory requirements, operational improvements, and strategic program objectives when establishing delivery priorities.
• Translate business needs and customer objectives into actionable Epics, Features, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, and product backlog items.
• Develop and communicate product strategies that support the continued evolution and operational success of CARES.

Agile Product Leadership

• Own, refine, prioritize, and maintain the CARES product backlog.
• Lead backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Release Planning, and Program Increment (PI) Planning activities.
• Ensure development teams have the business context, priorities, and decisions necessary to maintain delivery momentum.
• Collaborate with Scrum Masters and technical leadership to support Agile execution and continuous delivery.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Release Planning.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Provide cross-functional leadership across software development, business analysis, quality assurance, DevOps, UX, database, and operational support teams.
• Lead through influence to promote accountability, collaboration, and shared ownership in achieving program objectives.
• Coordinate dependencies across multiple Agile teams, technical organizations, and customer stakeholders.
• Facilitate timely decision-making to minimize delivery risk and maintain release schedules.
• Foster a collaborative environment that enables teams to meet product delivery commitments and deployment objectives.
• Drive alignment between customer expectations, technical capabilities, and contractual delivery commitments.

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as the primary product representative between Leidos and FAA stakeholders.
• Build trusted relationships with government leadership, business representatives, and technical stakeholders.
• Facilitate prioritization discussions that balance competing customer needs while maintaining program objectives.
• Present product status, roadmap updates, release readiness, program risks, recommendations, and delivery strategies to customer and program leadership.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level briefings, product updates, release status, roadmap communications, and decision support materials to program leadership and FAA stakeholders.
• Ensure customer feedback is incorporated into future planning and continuous product improvement.

Release Planning & Program Execution

• Lead product planning activities supporting software releases from concept through production deployment.
• Cook up release readiness activities across development, testing, operations, and customer organizations.
• Provide product leadership to ensure delivery commitments, program objectives, customer expectations, and contractual objectives remain aligned throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Maintain product health, delivery metrics, dependencies, and program risks while recommending corrective actions and mitigation strategies.
• Support successful implementation of new capabilities through operational transition, user adoption, and continuous product improvement.
• Partner with technical leadership to evaluate solution alternatives, implementation strategies, release sequencing, and delivery priorities.

Continuous Improvement

• Promote Agile best practices and continuous improvement across the product team.
• Identify opportunities to improve product delivery processes, stakeholder collaboration, release planning, and program execution.
• Utilize delivery metrics, customer feedback, and operational lessons learned to improve product maturity and delivery effectiveness.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, and customer focus.