SENIOR PRODUCT OWNER 5

Huntington Ingalls•Newport News, VA

11d•$147,000 - $184,000•Remote

About The Position

Newport News Shipbuilding’s Information Technology team is seeking a senior-level Product Owner to lead capabilities spanning multiple development teams, programs, and product areas. The role defines roadmap objectives, sequences complex initiatives, manages cross-team dependencies, and aligns business and technical partners within a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment. The Product Owner works with business leadership, product managers, development teams, platform engineers, and architects to ensure solutions meet enterprise goals and architectural direction. The Product Owner is responsible for product success by maximizing development-team output within a scrum framework. This includes ordering and expressing the product backlog, prioritizing work to achieve goals and optimize value, facilitating sprint activities, and translating business needs into executable requirements. The role develops and adapts product vision, writes user stories and acceptance criteria, and collaborates with stakeholders to understand, refine, prioritize, and communicate scope, objectives, and requirements. The position provides strategic product leadership across technical, digital, and operational excellence initiatives, with collaboration across NNS divisions including Human Resources, Payroll, Finance, Earned Value Management, and SharePoint. It contributes to product strategy, portfolio management, customer opportunities, work intake prioritization, and consistent value delivery at scale. The role also brings user-community members together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, address issues, improve tools and training, and standardize processes while ensuring the health and quality of processes and products across the value stream.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and 14 years of relevant exempt experience; or a master's degree and 12 years of relevant professional experience; or a Ph.D. and 9 years of experience.
Demonstrated experience delivering large technical programs, with deep technical execution fluency.
Deep expertise in product ownership across complex or multi-team environments.
Ability to define product strategy, roadmap elements, and feature sequencing.
Skill in dependency management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder negotiation.
Experience aligning multiple teams or programs to shared objectives.
Strong analytics and decision-making using metrics such as value, predictability, and quality.
Ability to influence leadership and drive cross-team consensus.
Ability to ensure solutions align with enterprise strategy.
U.S. citizenship is required for this position.

Nice To Haves

Experience with enterprise-level initiatives or platform responsibilities.
Value stream mapping, Lean prioritization, or portfolio planning experience.
Ability to define and enforce product workflows, standards, or governance practices.
Advanced SAFe or product management certification.
Experience shaping long-range product planning and financial prioritization.

Responsibilities

Maximize development-team output and product value within a scrum framework.
Order and clearly express product backlog items, sequencing work to achieve goals and optimize value.
Define roadmap objectives, sequence complex initiatives, manage cross-team dependencies, and align multiple teams and programs.
Develop and adapt product vision, write user stories, and specify acceptance criteria.
Lead collaboration and facilitate sprint activities.
Create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements.
Work with stakeholders, product and project managers, and technical teams to analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs, scope, objectives, and requirements.
Partner with business leadership, development teams, platform engineers, and architects to ensure solutions align with enterprise goals and architectural direction.
Collaborate to establish product vision, identify customer opportunities, and ensure solutions are valuable and successful.
Facilitate communication and relationships between other product owners and technology teams.
Prioritize and manage work intake, portfolio needs, and cross-team dependencies.
Use analytics and measures of value, predictability, and quality to support decisions.
Influence leadership and drive cross-team consensus and alignment with enterprise strategy.
Bring user-community members together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, manage toolset or training improvements, discuss issues, and standardize processes.
Ensure the health and quality of processes and resulting products across the value stream.