Senior Agile Scrum Product Owner

About the role

The ideal candidate is first and foremost an exceptional Agile Product Owner who is comfortable partnering with a Technical Lead and engineering team on complex software. Deep technical expertise is not required. The candidate should have enough familiarity with agentic AI, large language models, and modern cloud software to translate customer and mission needs into clear priorities and to make informed trade-off decisions together with the Technical Lead.

Responsibilities

• Own and communicate the product vision, roadmap, and strategic direction for the Crucible agentic AI platform.
• Develop, maintain, prioritize, and continuously refine the Product Backlog.
• Translate customer and stakeholder needs into well-defined Epics, Features, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria.
• Partner closely with the Technical Lead, who owns technical design, architecture, and feasibility, to turn the product vision into an achievable delivery plan and to make informed scope and trade-off decisions.
• Collaborate with Product Management, stakeholders, and the engineering team to maximize business and mission value.
• Define, prioritize, and evolve product capabilities, such as: Knowledge retrieval and answer quality (retrieval-augmented generation), Artifact and content generation, Governed actions and tool/skill execution, Conversation history and context handling, Document ingestion and knowledge-base curation, Multi-tenant onboarding and program isolation, Configuration that lets behavior be tuned without redeploys.
• Work with the Technical Lead to confirm that user stories are feasible, testable, and appropriately scoped, trusting the Technical Lead and engineering team to own architecture and technical design.
• Prioritize measurable quality targets for AI behavior, such as answer accuracy, trustworthiness, citation compliance, and safety, working with the Technical Lead and evaluation team to define them.
• Balance customer needs against technical debt, security, and architectural improvements raised by the Technical Lead and engineering team when managing the Product Backlog.
• Participate in Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and Product Demonstrations.
• Accept completed work based on established Acceptance Criteria and the team’s Definition of Done.
• Collaborate with Scrum Masters to ensure healthy backlog management, sprint readiness, and predictable product delivery.
• Engage regularly with customers and stakeholders to gather feedback, validate priorities, and refine product direction.
• Support the planned migration and sunset of predecessor services by prioritizing feature parity and a smooth transition for existing tenants.
• Measure product success through customer value, mission outcomes, adoption, and operational effectiveness.
• Champion Agile principles, responsible AI practices, and continuous improvement across the product team.

Requirements

• 10-15+ years of experience serving as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar product leadership role within Agile Scrum environments.
• Demonstrated success owning complex enterprise software, platform, or data/AI products.
• Experience partnering with a Technical Lead, architect, or engineering lead to deliver complex technical products.
• Expert knowledge of Agile Scrum principles and Product Ownership responsibilities.
• Extensive experience creating and managing Product Vision, Product Roadmaps, Product Backlogs, Epics, Features, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria.
• Experience working directly with technical engineering teams.
• Occasional travel may be required.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and prioritization skills.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• An active DoD Secret clearance is required to perform this work. Candidates are required to have an active Secret clearance upon hire (or the ability to obtain), and the ability to maintain this level of clearance during their employment. Active Secret or Top Secret clearance preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.

Skills / Characteristics

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I or II)
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)
• Experience supporting DoD, Federal Government, or highly regulated environments.
• Experience owning AI/ML, data, or platform products.
• Experience delivering products that use retrieval-augmented generation or agentic AI.
• Experience working with cloud-native platforms.
• Familiarity with NIST RMF, STIG, and cybersecurity best practices.
• Experience working within Digital Engineering or Digital Test & Evaluation (T&E) ecosystems.
• Strategic thinker capable of defining long-term product vision.
• Strong customer advocate with a passion for delivering mission value.
• Able to rely on and empower a Technical Lead and engineering team rather than dictating technical solutions.
• Comfortable working with highly technical AI and engineering organizations.
• Excellent communicator who can translate business and mission needs into actionable engineering work.
• Strong facilitation and consensus-building skills.
• Data-driven and evaluation-driven decision maker.
• Collaborative leader who thrives in cross-functional Agile environments.
• Able to balance innovation, customer needs, technical constraints, and security.
• Comfortable navigating the ambiguity and rapid change inherent to emerging AI technologies.
• Passion for continuous improvement and Agile product development.