Role OverviewThis role is responsible for the success of the product by maximizing the output of the development team within a scrum framework. The Product Owner provides senior level product leadership for capabilities spanning multiple delivery teams, programs, or product areas within the IT division at Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS). Operating within a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment, this role partners with business leadership, product managers, delivery teams, platform engineers, and architects to ensure solutions meet enterprise goals and architectural direction.
What You Will Do
The Product Owner will order the backlog, clearly express product backlog items, and optimize the value of the work the team performs. They will lead collaboration, facilitate sprint activities, create and communicate requirements artifacts, and work closely with business stakeholders and technical teams to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs. They will also develop and adapt the product vision, write new user stories, specify acceptance criteria, and bring the User Community together to share knowledge and drive process standardization.
Why It Might Be a Fit
This role requires a Bachelor's degree and 9 years of relevant exempt experience (or equivalent), with demonstrated experience delivering large technical programs and deep expertise in product ownership across complex or multi-team environments. The candidate should have extensive experience and knowledge of portfolio management, ability to define product strategy and roadmap, and skill in dependency management and stakeholder negotiation. The salary range is $113,000 to $142,000, and the role offers comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401K, tuition reimbursement, and more.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree and 9 years of relevant exempt experience; Master's Degree and 7 years of relevant professional experience; Ph.D. and 4 years of experience
- One of the following may be used as an equivalent to Bachelor's Degree: NNS Apprentice School graduate, Navy Nuclear Power School (NNPS) graduate, Associate's Degree or other formal 2 year program and 2 years of relevant exempt experience or 4 years of relevant non-exempt experience, Military Paygrade E-5 or above military experience, High School/GED and 4 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant exempt experience, High School/GED and 8 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant non-exempt experience
- Demonstrated experience delivering large technical programs
- Deep expertise in product ownership across complex or multi team environments
- Ability to define product strategy, roadmap elements, and feature sequencing
- Skill in dependency management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder negotiation
- Experience aligning multiple teams or programs to shared objectives
- Strong analytics and decision making based on metrics like value, predictability, and quality
- Ability to influence leadership and drive cross team consensus
- Ensure solutions have alignment with enterprise strategy
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Prescription drug coverage
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- On-site health centers
- Tele-medicine
- Wellness resources
- Employee assistance programs
- Savings plan options (401K)
- Financial education and planning tools
- Life insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee discounts
- Early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships
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