Product Owner – GIS

Role Overview

• Assist Government Product Owner: Support in the prioritization of capabilities based on feedback from multiple internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs.
• Prioritize and Communicate Team Priorities: Communicate team priorities and product features from the Government Product Owner to the Agile team to maintain focus on high-value tasks.
• Bridge Technical and Business Needs: Communicate customer and user needs to the development team, ensuring both functional and technical requirements are understood and implemented.
• Write Epics and User Stories: Develop clear and comprehensive epics and user stories with detailed acceptance criteria that reflect customer needs and business priorities.
• Coordinate with External Stakeholders: Facilitate communication and coordination with external stakeholders to ensure their feedback is captured and incorporated into product planning and development.
• Assist in Product Roadmap Development: Collaborate in the development and maintenance of the product roadmap, ensuring the technical feasibility and alignment of product features with business priorities.
• System-Level Understanding: Engage in system engineering tasks, ensuring a strong understanding of the underlying system architecture and how components interact, scale, and perform across platforms. This includes assessing technical risks, identifying potential improvements, and working with development teams to address cross-functional challenges.
• Manage Technical Feasibility: Participate in discussions around technical constraints, helping to balance business priorities with system limitations to ensure that each feature is both implementable and scalable.
• Ensure Long-Term Scalability: Contribute to system-level design and improvements, ensuring the product is sustainable and scalable for long-term success.

Requirements

• TS/SCI with Polygraph: Required for working in a government-sensitive environment.
• Bachelor's Degree with 10 years of relevant experience
• Prior Experience with Agile Development and/or Scrum: Proven ability to adapt and work in a rapidly changing environment while demonstrating excellent communication, interpersonal, and mentoring skills.
• Technical Background: Strong understanding of Software Development and Geospatial Analysis to bridge the gap between functional needs and technical solutions.
• Domain Experience: Experience with Geospatial Analysis and/or NGA Geospatial Software Programs to understand the specific needs and constraints of geospatial products.

Tech Stack

• TypeScript

Benefits

• healthcare
• wellness
• financial
• retirement
• family support
• continuing education
• time off benefits