Senior Product Owner

Talteam Inc. • Washington, DC

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About The Position

The Senior Product Owner, specifically a Technical Product Owner, will define product vision and priorities for a research-collaboration tooling initiative. The role translates business and research-collaboration needs into clear technical requirements and an actionable roadmap, partnering closely with DevSecOps engineering and platform leads to align the initiative with broader platform priorities.

The position requires product ownership experience and technical literacy, including sufficient platform-level knowledge of source-control, technical-authoring, and file-collaboration tools to evaluate feasibility, ask informed questions of technical subject-matter experts, and make technology decisions grounded in platform capabilities. The contractor will produce a product vision, prioritized roadmap, technical specifications, feasibility and integration assessments, and process documentation such as decision logs and meeting minutes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in product ownership, technical business analysis, or a related role, ideally in a platform, tooling, or developer-collaboration context.
• Proven track record defining product vision and translating business or stakeholder needs into technical specifications and user stories.
• Experience working directly with business analysts, senior leadership, and engineers or architects to validate feasibility and make technology decisions.
• Working knowledge of source-control/developer-collaboration platforms, such as GitHub; technical-authoring and research-collaboration platforms, such as Overleaf; and file-collaboration/research-sharing platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), or equivalent certification.
• Experience supporting a research-collaboration, academic-partnership, or external stakeholder engagement effort.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery practices such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Federal government experience.
• Experience in a DevSecOps or platform engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision and priorities for research-collaboration tooling and technologies with input validated directly by business stakeholders, architects, and technical SMEs.
• Translate business and research-collaboration needs into actionable technical specifications and user stories.
• Prioritize features and enhancements based on business value and technical feasibility, and maintain requirements traceability from business need through technical delivery.
• Maintain working knowledge of source-control/developer platforms, technical-authoring and research-collaboration platforms, and file-collaboration/research-sharing platforms to assess integration options and identify constraints.
• Partner with engineering and platform architects to evaluate feasibility and integration approaches, including authoring-platform-to-source-control synchronization and repository/access models for external collaborators.
• Monitor changes in the research-collaboration tooling landscape and adjust the roadmap accordingly.
• Evaluate architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs with engineering and platform architects, including scalability and performance implications.
• Make informed decisions about technology stacks and integration approaches.
• Serve as the primary translator between business stakeholders and DevSecOps engineering and platform leads.
• Explain technical constraints, tradeoffs, and timelines to non-technical stakeholders in plain language, and communicate business priorities and external-collaborator needs to engineering teams in actionable terms.
• Apply project-management, organizational, and process-mapping fundamentals to keep product and requirements work on track.
• Maintain documentation of decisions, open questions, and requirement changes, including meeting minutes and decision logs.
• Support planning and prioritization discussions with program leadership.
• Deliver a product vision, prioritized roadmap, and technical specifications traceable from business need through technical delivery.
• Develop feasibility and integration-approach assessments for research-collaboration platform initiatives, informed by business analysts and economists and developed jointly with engineering and platform architects.
• Deliver decision logs, meeting minutes, and other process documentation supporting the product workstream.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior