Digital PM Product Owner (Onsite)

RTX•East Hartford, CT

3d•Onsite

About The Position

At RTX, the world largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines and auxiliary power systems and has been revolutionizing modern flight for over 100 years. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense. GATORWORKS, within Military Development Programs (MDP), is a technology, product, and capability incubator focused on rapid prototyping, demonstration, and engine to airframe integration across the earliest phase of development. The team is expanding the Military Engines product portfolio with cutting edge technology, innovative use of existing capability – with focus on a new and non-traditional customer base and acquisition environment. Developing, testing, and fielding technologies for the warfighter faster and more efficiently is common to our mission across all programs. The MDP Digital team supports these efforts by building and scaling fully digital and agile development techniques – transforming how we work internally and with our customers. The MDP Digital team is seeking a Product Owner, who will play a key role in executing and advancing the MDP Digital Roadmap. This role will lead a team to create new digital solutions that reimagine our core business processes so we can deliver world-class propulsion systems faster and more efficiently than our competition. We are seeking a highly collaborative Product Owner with a track record for building high-performing teams, delivering on commitments, and developing long-term strategies for scalability, tool adoption, and tool maintenance / sustainment. Ideal candidates will need to have demonstrated ability to bring together a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders, and to clearly translate and articulate business value as a result of capability implementation. In addition, experience with process value stream mapping and contributing to product roadmaps and product backlogs is required. The position will report to the MDP GATORWORKS Director for Digital Acceleration

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a STEM or business-related field with 10 +years of prior relevant experience showing progressive responsibility, OR Advanced degree with 7+ years of experience showing progressive responsibility.
Experience managing costs on a monthly cadence to achieve an annual budget
The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
Availability to travel up to 10% (once per quarter)

Nice To Haves

Ability to build relationships with stakeholders and use knowledge of business processes and stakeholders needs to prioritize a feature backlog
Ability to translate stakeholder needs into user stories implementable by a development team
Ability to demonstrate products to a wide range of audiences with the ability to adapt messaging to the audience
Ability to articulate business value of new product features
Demonstrated track-record of delivering on commitments
Ability to develop and execute a 1-2 year operational plan
Advanced degree in a business-related field (e.g. MBA) or PMP Certification
Experience with Earned Value Management
Experience writing proposals, bidding, or generating basis of estimate documentation
Experience with software development and/or human-machine interface (HMI) design

Responsibilities

Lead an agile team of developers to execute and deliver a backlog of capabilities, expand adoption of existing tools, develop a cost-effective maintenance strategy for the tools, and contribute to a roadmap of future initiatives to support program operations digitally.
Manage an annual budget and provide monthly input and forecast updates as well as create project definitions and estimates for future-year efforts
Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to prioritize capability delivery based on need and business impact
Translate business use cases to a team of developers to implement intuitive, user-focuses digital solutions
Conduct tool demonstrations as needed to various levels of leadership, stakeholders, and potential tools users
Respond rapidly (within hours) to tool issues / bugs to provide timely fixes and support a fast-turn business cadence
Interface with other Digital Technologists across Military Engines to understand and anticipate future needs and match planned capability releases to those gaps
Participate in quarterly planning events and lead the team to ensure executable Program Increment plans that appropriately incorporate business and stakeholder feedback. Also provide guidance and direction on capability prioritization at bi-weekly Sprint reviews to ensure alignment of expectations between stakeholders and team members.