Agile Product Owner
Our Company•Bath Township, OH
•Onsite
About The Position
Cepeda Systems and Software Analysis is seeking an Agile Product Owner to support the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH. This role bridges the gap between stakeholders, customers, and software development teams. The Product Owner will be responsible for defining and prioritizing product backlogs to ensure NASIC mission success through requirements management, sprint planning and execution, and workflow development.
Requirements
- Master's degree in a relevant field, or a Bachelor's and 4 additional years of experience
- At least 10 years of experience in Agile software development environments
- Performing Product Owner responsibilities such as backlog management and sprint support
- Workflow design, automation, dashboards, and governance
- Integration amongst multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders
- U.S. Citizenship is Required
- TS Clearance
- Strong understanding of Agile frameworks
- Ability to translate engineering, systems, or mission requirements into development tasks
- Proficiency in Agile project management tools (especially Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps)
- Strong communicator capable of expressing technical needs and managing expectations
- Ability to balance competing priorities and maintain clarity of vision for development teams
Nice To Haves
- Support of transformation or modernization efforts such as Agile transformation
- Intelligence experience: MASINT, Directed Energy, or NCTI
- Systems engineering understanding
- Strategic communication
- Risk management workflows
- Integration and test coordination
- Cloud-native or digital engineering familiarity
- Scrum-focused certifications (Certified Scrum Product Owner, Professional Scrum Product Owner, Certified Scrum Master)
- Atlassian certifications (Certified Jira Project Administrator, Atlassian Agile Fundamentals)
- SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager
Responsibilities
- Creating, refining, and prioritizing user stories and acceptance criteria that represent stakeholder needs and system requirements
- Aligning technical priorities; coordinating with engineering, program management, and development teams
- Supporting sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily team alignment, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Translating system needs and mission requirements into actionable development work
- Managing Agile tool environments, ensuring backlog structure, workflow automation, dashboards, and reporting structures are optimized
- Defining mission product architecture requirements
Benefits
- full coverage medical insurance
- paid leave
- paid holidays
- multiple retirement plan options
- short-term and long-term disability
- life insurance
- career development and recognition programs
- flexible work schedules
- company-sponsored events
- educational assistance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
