Product Owner – Theia

SynMax

11d • Onsite

About The Position

Theia is SynMax's maritime intelligence platform — used by naval forces, defence agencies, and
commercial operators to monitor and understand vessel activity at global scale. It is the company's
primary product and the centre of its most significant customer relationships.

The Product Owner sits between the Head of Product's strategic direction and the engineering team's
daily delivery. Their job is to translate 'what we're building and why' into 'how it works, what done looks
like, and what trade-offs are acceptable.' They are the person engineering turns to daily for product
decisions that require genuine understanding of the customer, the domain, and how the product is used.
This role exists because product strategy and engineering execution operate at different altitudes. The
Head of Product sets direction at the 6–24 month horizon. Engineering works sprint-by-sprint. The
Product Owner bridges that gap — taking strategic intent and producing detailed, implementable
requirements, then making the continuous stream of scoping, quality, and priority decisions that arise
during development.

Without this role, every domain-level product decision routes to the Head of Product, creating a
bottleneck. With this role, the Head of Product sets direction and the Product Owner ensures that
direction is faithfully and effectively translated into shipped product

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience working closely with engineering teams in a sprint-based delivery environment
• Strong track record of writing detailed, unambiguous product requirements that engineering can act on
• Comfortable making trade-off decisions under constraint and articulating the impact clearly
• Direct, precise communication with technical teams — able to give fast, confident answers to product questions
• Experience with customer-facing software products where user understanding directly shaped product decisions
• Eligibility to work with US government customers and, where required, to obtain relevant security clearances — US citizenship or appropriate clearance eligibility is expected

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with the US defence, intelligence, or federal government market — understanding how these customers procure, operate, and adopt software
• Experience working with government programme offices, defence end-users, or similar stakeholders
• Domain familiarity with maritime, geospatial intelligence, or related domains
• Experience operating across distributed or cross-timezone team

Responsibilities

• Requirements Definition & Feature Specification
• Sprint-Level Product Decisions
• Backlog Ownership & Sprint Coordination
• Domain Expertise & Customer Understanding
• Stakeholder Communication (Delivery-Focused)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed