Staff Agile Product Owner - Morrisville (TS/SCI)

Relocation assistance may be available. Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance required. Travel required: 10% of the time.

About the role

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is looking for a Chief Product Owner (CPO) to lead and enable multiple Software development feature teams to implement high-level business goals across a Ground System product line supporting multiple constellations. The Chief Product Owner represents Product Management and is the voice of customers on the Agile development team. They guide and collaborate with multiple Feature Team Product Owners to define the work so that the integrated team can collectively manage priorities, cross-team dependencies, and blockers to deliver capabilities within a defined period.

Responsibilities

• Owns and maintains the Integrated Capability Roadmap
• Works with Project Leads to prioritize Features and Capabilities
• Works with the Chief Engineer to ensure Capability and Technical Roadmaps alignment
• Ensures priorities are aligned with the Customer’s needs and Program strategy
• Engages in communication with Project Leads to ensure customer satisfaction and priorities
• Works with Feature Team POs, Architects, and Project Leads to break down Capabilities into Features that teams can execute
• Works with SEIT, POs, Architects, and Project Leads to ensure completeness of Features and Capabilities
• Accountable to ensure Features contain stories to perform all work required for Definition of Done
• Accountable to ensure Acceptance Criteria defined by the Project Leads are adequately defined, understood, and testable
• Works directly with the POs to ensure compliance with the roadmap and the roadmap is effectively communicated to the POs
• Accountable for ensuring consistency and compliance of all the work POs are doing (Feature/Story/AC definition, Feature Acceptance, etc.)
• Presents contents going into the Joint Release at the Gate Review to provide the context and purpose of each JR item (Gate Reviews are a joint effort between CPO and I&T Lead)
• Responsible for attending the weekly tag-up with the customer, Joint Working Group meetings, and Product Line customer-facing meetings (not expected to be the voice of the product line)

Requirements

• Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance
• Completed Bachelor’s degree with the following years of experience in systems engineering, software engineering, business leadership, or product development:
  • 12 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's in Science
  • 10 years with a Master's degree
  • 8 years with a PhD
• Experience with big-picture priorities and operating within a product line or experience managing different customer priorities in one baseline
• Experience translating high-level business goals into roadmaps, Gantt charts and/or integrated roadmaps
• Mastery of Agile Frameworks (e.g., SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale)
• Proficiency in using Atlassian tool suite, especially JIRA
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills and leadership experience
• U.S. Citizenship required

Qualifications

• Strong technical background in Software development or Systems Engineering within an Agile Software development program
• Industry-wide recognized credentials such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (PO/PM), or CPrO-C (Chief Product Officer – Certified)
• Strong data analysis and visualization skills
• Proven track record of managing, mentoring, and scaling cross-functional product and engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to analyze performance metrics of feature teams to identify trends and course-correct and/or implement process changes, as needed

Benefits

Northrop Grumman offers a comprehensive Total Rewards and benefits package including:

• Health insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business

Pay

Primary Level Salary Range: $169,000.00 - $265,600.00. The above salary range represents a general guideline; Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.

Schedule

Travel required: 10% of the time.