Product Owner

About the role

The Product Owner serves as a critical link between business stakeholders and technology teams, ensuring solutions align with business objectives and deliver measurable value. This role is responsible for analyzing business needs, defining requirements, prioritizing work efforts, and guiding the delivery of technology solutions that support operational and strategic goals across multiple business units.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and IT development teams for the implementation of new systems, product enhancements, and technology solutions across multiple business units.
• Act as Product Owner within Agile development teams, ensuring solutions align with customer needs, business priorities, and strategic objectives.
• Gather, analyze, document, validate, and prioritize business requirements and translate them into actionable user stories and functional specifications.
• Manage and prioritize product backlogs, define acceptance criteria, and support sprint planning, reviews, testing, and release activities.
• Evaluate new applications, technologies, and system capabilities and recommend solutions that improve business performance and operational efficiency.
• Lead analysis activities to identify business data requirements, data quality needs, business rules, and process dependencies.
• Partner with business leaders, technical teams, vendors, and end users to design effective business processes and technology solutions.
• Support the development and execution of product roadmaps, continuous improvement initiatives, and portfolios of change aligned with business strategy.
• Develop process documentation, workflow diagrams, and business models to support solution design, implementation, and adoption.
• Deliver reporting, analysis, and recommendations that support business decision-making and organizational performance improvements.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships and provide guidance to less experienced team members as needed.

Basic Qualifications

• Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Minimum five (5) years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Project Manager, or related role.
• Experience: Working within Agile and Scrum delivery environments. Experience partnering with cross-functional business and technical stakeholders to define and deliver technology solutions. Experience gathering, documenting, and managing business and functional requirements throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Technical & Leadership Skills: Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, product ownership principles, and requirements management practices. Demonstrated ability to translate complex business needs into clear functional requirements and technology solutions. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Experience with business process analysis, workflow design, and process improvement methodologies. Knowledge of data analysis concepts, data quality principles, and reporting solutions. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences. Strong stakeholder management, collaboration, and relationship-building capabilities. Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining quality and attention to detail. Ability to quickly understand and evaluate new technologies and emerging digital capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Certifications: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent Product Owner certification.
• Enterprise Experience: Supporting enterprise-wide technology initiatives across multiple business functions. Experience developing or contributing to product roadmaps and strategic change initiatives. Experience with data modeling, business intelligence, reporting, or data governance activities. Experience working in government contracting, engineering, technology, or other highly regulated industries.