SENIOR PRODUCT OWNER - PORTFOLIO/PRODUCT MANAGER

Huntington Ingalls•Newport News, VA

72d•$113,000 - $142,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Product Owner provides senior-level product leadership for capabilities spanning multiple delivery teams, programs, or product areas within the IT division. The role is accountable for product success by maximizing development-team output within a Scrum framework, maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog, expressing backlog items clearly, and optimizing the value delivered. The Product Owner leads collaboration and sprint activities and creates and communicates requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements. The role works closely with business stakeholders, product and project managers, and technical teams to understand, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs and to ensure shared understanding of project scope, objectives, and requirements. The Product Owner develops and adapts product vision, writes user stories, defines acceptance criteria, and brings user-community members together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, improve tools and training, discuss issues, and promote process standardization. The position also ensures the health and quality of processes and products across the value stream. Operating in a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment, the Product Owner defines roadmap objectives, sequences complex initiatives, manages cross-team dependencies, and aligns business and technical partners. The role partners with business leadership, product managers, delivery teams, platform engineers, and architects to ensure solutions meet enterprise goals and architectural direction, and has significant influence on product strategy and value delivery at scale. This strategic partner supports consistency, innovation, and maturity across Newport News Shipbuilding’s technical, digital, and operational excellence initiatives. The role collaborates across divisions and areas including data science, digital innovation and UX, artificial intelligence, IIoT/digital plant, data warehouse, and robotic process automation. It uses portfolio-management expertise to establish product vision, identify customer opportunities, ensure solutions are valuable and successful, facilitate relationships between product owners and technology teams, and prioritize and manage work intake. The position requires technical execution fluency in large-scale initiatives such as cloud, IIoT, modular data architectures, AI, and predictive planning.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of relevant exempt experience; or master’s degree and 7 years of relevant professional experience; or Ph.D. and 4 years of experience.
The stated bachelor’s-degree equivalent options are: NNS Apprentice School graduate; Navy Nuclear Power School graduate; associate’s degree or other formal two-year program plus 2 years of relevant exempt experience or 4 years of relevant non-exempt experience; military experience at paygrade E-5 or above; high school/GED plus 4 years of combined manufacturing, shipbuilding, trades, military, or other relevant exempt experience; or high school/GED plus 8 years of combined manufacturing, shipbuilding, trades, military, or other relevant non-exempt experience.
Extensive experience and knowledge of portfolio management.
Demonstrated experience delivering large technical programs, with technical execution fluency in complex, enterprise-scale initiatives.
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.
U.S. citizenship is required for this position.

Nice To Haves

Experience with enterprise-level initiatives or platform responsibilities.
Experience with value-stream mapping, Lean prioritization, or portfolio planning.
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 maintain the product backlog, clearly express backlog items, and sequence work to achieve goals.
Lead collaboration and facilitate sprint activities.
Create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements.
Work with business stakeholders, product and project managers, and technical teams to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs.
Develop and adapt product vision, write user stories, and specify acceptance criteria for each story.
Bring user-community members together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, improve tools or training, discuss issues, and drive process standardization.
Ensure the health and quality of processes and resulting products across the value stream.
Define roadmap objectives, sequence complex initiatives, manage cross-team dependencies, and align business and technical partners.
Partner with business leadership, product managers, delivery teams, platform engineers, and architects to ensure solutions align with enterprise goals and architectural direction.
Drive consistency, innovation, and maturity across technical, digital, and operational excellence initiatives.
Establish product vision, identify customer opportunities, ensure solutions are valuable and successful, facilitate relationships between product owners and technology, and prioritize and manage work intake.
Align multiple teams or programs to shared objectives, manage risks and dependencies, and drive cross-team consensus.
Ensure solutions align with enterprise strategy.