Technical Product Owner

About the role

Join a mission-focused program team as the technical bridge between program leadership, government stakeholders, and a multi-disciplinary software development team. Own product objectives and requirements for a fast-moving software product, driving development from concept through delivery. Work directly across engineering, R&D, and methodologies functions to ensure the highest-quality product execution and accurate progress tracking. Serve as a key day-to-day technical leader, with direct visibility into program strategy through the Program Manager.

Responsibilities

• Understand and translate key product objectives and requirements into actionable engineering tasks.
• Participate in design reviews, evaluating proposed architectures/solutions for alignment with requirements, scalability, and technical soundness.
• Conduct or participate in code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, architecture decisions, and quality expectations.
• Triage GitLab (or equivalent) tickets at the task level — assess technical scope, identify dependencies and blockers, and flag gaps between defined tasks and actual requirements.
• Own and track end-to-end development progress across SW Task Leads, Engineers, Developers, and Testers.
• Ensure the product development process consistently produces high-quality, on-schedule deliverables.
• Provide day-to-day support to the development team, ensuring necessary resources, tools, and support services are available.
• Coordinate closely with the Program Tech Lead, R&D Manager, and Methodologies Manager to align technical direction and capability development.
• Define and prioritize the product backlog in collaboration with government stakeholders and the SW Task Lead.
• Identify risks to schedule, quality, or requirements and escalate to the Program Manager with proposed mitigations.
• Facilitate communication and documentation between the SW Team and program managers, customers, and peers.
• Support software assurance processes and practices, holding the development team accountable to defined standards.
• Act as a secondary point of contact for the Government Sponsor and Partner teams on technical/product matters.
• Coordinate with Program Lab Manager and Program Security Specialist on resource and access needs affecting development.
• Track and report product-level progress metrics to the Program Manager and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of development processes and tooling.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering or development experience, including recent (within the last 2-3 years) coding, design, or architecture work.
• 2+ years of experience in a Product Owner, technical program coordination, or similar cross-functional leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience translating product/mission requirements into engineering execution plans.
• Demonstrated experience conducting design and/or code reviews, and triaging technical tickets (GitLab, Jira, or equivalent) at the task level.
• Strong working knowledge of Agile/Scrum practices and backlog management.
• Experience coordinating across multiple technical teams (engineering, QA, R&D) simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience briefing non-technical stakeholders.

Desired

• Experience working within a U.S. Government contracting environment.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), PMP, or equivalent certification.
• Prior experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community software programs.
• Familiarity with software assurance, secure development practices, or DevSecOps pipelines.