Principal Product Manager

Leidos is a leading company delivering innovative solutions through diverse and talented teams. The Principal Product Manager will develop a product vision and roadmap for advanced defense systems, collaborating with engineering teams to protect the United States and its allies from aerial threats.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a product vision and roadmap for sensor fusion and decision advantage leveraging existing Leidos products aligned to defense customer’s needs in Integrated Air and Missile Defense and Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems
• Translate business and operational requirements into product features and requirements for software teams
• Write user stories that articulate business value by defining agile pieces of technical work with maximum value
• Groom and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those that align with product strategy
• Establish a portable architecture deployable to cloud or edge hardware with automation or infrastructure as code
• Prioritize features and functionality based on business value, customer feedback, and market demand
• Participates in team standups, scrums, demo, retro, and negotiates to inspect and adapt with team leads
• Leads Product Increment planning sessions translating roadmap items into epics
• Artificial Intelligence and Automation Technology – leveraging advanced methods to develop intelligent systems that analyze data, learn from patterns, and make informed decisions autonomously
• DevOps – Employing practices to improve collaboration between development and operations teams
• Solution Architecture – Designing and overseeing implementation of technical solutions to solve specific business problems or needs that culminate in prototype systems that meet customer needs
• Review new work proposals that may have an impact with your product(s) and roadmap

Requirements:

• BS degree and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience experience related to software development and/or military command and control or Masters with 10 – 13 years of prior relevant experience relevant experience related to software development and/or military command and control
• Must currently possess an active Secret clearance
• Ability to travel up to 10% including the potential for OCONUS travel
• Ability to set requirements, comprehend needs, and build solutions that satisfy customer requirements
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative, forward thinking, and innovation-driven environment
• Experience with Agile and DevSecOps concepts and best practices
• Experience with machine learning or artificial intelligence with preference for C2 decision aids
• Hand-on experience with Atlassian and Git products (Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, etc.)
• Familiar with software development practices that contribute to the Risk Management Framework (RMF) such as CI/CD pipelines, static code analysis, unit test coverage and DISA STIGs
• Must be a US Citizen
• Experience with modern defense software in one or more JADC2 portfolios (ABMS, Overmatch, Convergence)
• Hands on experience with Integrated Air and Missile Defense interface control documents such as MILSTD 6016 (Link-16), Universal Command and Control Interface (UCI), Open Mission Network Interface (OMNI), U.S. Army Composite Tracker and Classifier (CTC)
• Experience unifying teams across a portfolio where individual product strategies do not naturally align
• Project Management Professional certification
• Scrum Product Owner certification
• Master's degree in business administration or computer science