Principal Product Owner

General Dynamics•Washington, DC

50d•Remote

About The Position

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a Principal Product Owner to join our team and support our customers. As a member of our Agile team, you will support several complex and high-volume customer systems. The ideal candidate would have experience capturing user stories and lead scrum team including backlog management and sprint planning.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, information systems, or related field
5+ years of big tech or large commercial experience directly as a product owner/product manager.
Minimum of three years of experience capturing and writing User Stories
Minimum of three years of experience in a system engineering or software application environment
Previous product owner work experience
U.S. Citizen with existing or the ability to pass a Public Trust background investigation.
Agile Management
Atlassian JIRA
Client Communication
Product Management
Product Ownership

Nice To Haves

Experience working in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or Agile/Iterative software development methodology including Scrum environment
Working knowledge of product development architecture
Proficiency in the use of analytic tools
Ability to prioritize effectively
Excellent knowledge of user-centered design principles
Ability to work with large teams
Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to integrate information from multiple sources
Experience with Jira
Experience with Confluence
Ability to communicate complex technical topics to management and non-technical audiences
Ability to work independently and interact regularly with government and non-government stakeholders at multiple levels of authority
Ability to multi-task and work under pressure
Interpersonal skills including courtesy, professionalism, and a cooperative attitude.
Critical thinking, problem solving skills, written, and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

Experience in communicating and working with stakeholders to translate the business vision into actionable requirements
Excellent requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation skills
Experience coordinating and facilitating meetings with clear agendas and in keeping participants on-track
Ability to create business and technical process and data flow diagrams
Ability to create clearly defined requirements as Epics and Features
Ability to create clearly defined user stories
Manage and lead the product development process
Keeping customers and stakeholders informed of the status of the product.
Act as the main point of contact between SAFe Agile teams
Manage and prioritize backlog items and optimizing the value of the product(s)
Assisting the scrum/product development team to meet the objectives of each sprint.
Adjusting and improving each iteration of the product before release.
Identifying areas of improvement.
Ability to coordinate across business and technical resources to get needed information on a timely basis
As a member of a scrum team, actively participates in daily scrum meeting to support requirements clarification and raise impediments impacting delivery
Participates in Program Quarterly Incrementation Planning sessions to assess work and establish development goals.

Benefits

Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire.
The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.