Senior AI Product Owner

Cynet Systems • Reston, VA

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About The Position

The Senior AI Product Owner drives business value by building, managing, and maintaining product backlogs in collaboration with IT teams, considering magnitude, scope, and complexity. The role represents the business to the team, defines business value, and details project scope for product offerings. The Product Owner ensures acceptance criteria are well-defined, contributes to product direction, participates in feature creation and user story writing, and collaborates on innovation through Joint Application Development (JAD) and brainstorming sessions.

The role works closely with Business Analysts, Architects, Technologists, subject matter experts, business owners, clients, partners, stakeholders, and customers. It also supports agile delivery and team development by coaching team members in Scrum and Agile practices, fostering a feedback culture, and mentoring Product Owners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Product Management, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field; alternatively, four additional years of relevant work experience in addition to the required experience.
• At least 6 years of IT and business analysis, business development, solutions development, systems analysis, technical design/development, or implementation experience, or at least 4 years of Product Owner experience.
• 5 to 8+ years of experience as a Senior Product Owner with AI-driven products, including a combination of Agentic AI and Generative AI products.
• Experience working closely with Data Scientists, Solution Architects, and development teams.
• Experience with different types of AI technology and the ability to identify, define, and prioritize AI use cases.
• Advanced knowledge of business and management principles.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Advanced knowledge of project planning and life cycle development.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Advanced ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems.

Nice To Haves

• Previous healthcare domain experience.
• Advanced degree.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification.

Responsibilities

• Define product backlogs in collaboration with Business Analysts, Architects, Technologists, subject matter experts, and business owners.
• Define the product roadmap and use it with the product vision to develop epics and features.
• Work with Business Analysts to create user stories that accurately reflect desired product capabilities.
• Build product backlogs and review them with business owners to determine business value and priority.
• Determine acceptance criteria and accept or reject development team deliverables.
• Maintain accountability for the success of the product or component under the role's purview.
• Guide Business Analysts in breaking down the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) into user stories and share expertise in writing effective user stories.
• Provide the Scrum Master with input on improvement opportunities for grooming sessions.
• Engage with clients, internal and external business partners, key stakeholders, and customers as needed to educate them and provide relevant product information.
• Support culture change to improve delivery agility.
• Coach team members who are new to Scrum and Agile practices.
• Support team building and development by using individuals' abilities and skills and fostering a feedback culture.
• Mentor Product Owners to help ensure their success.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Solution Architects, and development teams on AI-driven products and use cases.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior