Senior Product Owner
About The Position
I2X Technologies is seeking a Senior Product Owner to support ongoing customer activities in Washington, DC. The position is on-site and requires US citizenship. The role defines the vision and priorities for research-collaboration tooling and technologies, translating stakeholder needs into technical specifications and user stories while maintaining traceability from business need through delivery. The Product Owner works closely with business stakeholders, business analysts, economists, engineering teams, and platform architects to assess feasibility, integration approaches, technical tradeoffs, scalability, and performance. The role also serves as the primary communication link between business stakeholders and DevSecOps engineering and platform leads, and supports planning, prioritization, documentation, and delivery processes. The contractor is expected to deliver a product vision, prioritized roadmap, and technical specifications for research-collaboration tooling; assessments of feasibility and integration approaches for platform initiatives; and decision logs, meeting minutes, and other process documentation. The job requires regular sitting, walking, standing, and stair climbing; repetitive hand, arm, or finger movements; manual and finger dexterity; vision and hearing abilities; and communication with clients and the public. Occasional bending, twisting, reaching, and lifting up to 20 pounds may be required. The position also involves tolerance for varying levels of mental stress.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- 10 or more years of experience in product ownership, technical business analysis, or a related role, ideally in a platform, tooling, or developer-collaboration context.
- Proven experience defining product vision and translating business or stakeholder needs into technical specifications and user stories.
- Experience working directly with business analysts, senior leadership, engineers, or architects to validate feasibility and make technology decisions.
- Working knowledge of source-control/developer-collaboration platforms, technical-authoring and research-collaboration platforms, and file-collaboration/research-sharing platforms.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholders.
- US citizenship.
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.
- 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 business stakeholders, architects, and technical subject-matter experts.
- Translate business and research-collaboration needs into actionable technical specifications and user stories.
- Prioritize features and enhancements based on business value and technical feasibility.
- Maintain requirements traceability from business need through technical delivery.
- Maintain working knowledge of relevant source-control, developer, technical-authoring, research-collaboration, file-collaboration, and research-sharing platforms.
- Partner with engineering and platform architects to assess feasibility and integration approaches before decisions are finalized.
- Stay current on research-collaboration tools and adjust the roadmap as needed.
- Evaluate architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs with engineering and platform architects.
- Assess scalability and performance implications of product and tooling choices.
- Make informed decisions about technology stacks and integration approaches.
- Translate between business stakeholders and DevSecOps engineering and platform leads.
- Communicate technical constraints, tradeoffs, and timelines to non-technical stakeholders in plain language.
- Communicate business priorities and external-collaborator needs to engineering teams in actionable terms.
- Use project-management, organizational, and process-mapping fundamentals to keep product and requirements work on track.
- Document 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.
- Produce feasibility and integration-approach assessments for research-collaboration platform initiatives jointly with engineering and platform architects, informed by business analysts and economists.
- Deliver decision logs, meeting minutes, and other process documentation supporting the product workstream.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
