Senior Product Owner 5

Ingalls Shipbuilding•Newport News, VA

About The Position

Newport News Shipbuilding’s Information Technology team is seeking a Senior Product Owner to provide senior-level product leadership for capabilities spanning multiple development teams, programs, and product areas. The role is responsible for product success by maximizing development-team output within a Scrum framework, ordering and expressing the product backlog, and prioritizing work to achieve goals and maximize value. The Product Owner defines roadmap objectives, sequences complex initiatives, manages cross-team dependencies, and aligns business and technical partners in a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment. Working with business leadership, product managers, development teams, platform engineers, and architects, the role ensures that solutions meet enterprise goals and architectural direction. It has significant influence on product strategy and consistent value delivery at scale. The role leads collaboration and sprint activities; creates and communicates requirements artifacts; translates business needs into executable requirements; develops and adapts product vision; writes user stories and defines acceptance criteria; and works with stakeholders to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs. The Product Owner also brings user communities together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, improve tools or training, discuss issues, and support process standardization. The position helps ensure the health and quality of processes and products across the value stream, and partners across NNS divisions including Human Resources, Payroll, Finance, Earned Value Management, and SharePoint.

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 technical execution fluency for complex enterprise 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 based on measures such as value, predictability, and quality.
Ability to influence leadership and drive cross-team consensus.
Ability to ensure solutions align with enterprise strategy.
Extensive experience and knowledge of portfolio management.
Experience partnering with teams in areas including Human Resources, Payroll, Finance, Earned Value Management, and SharePoint.

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 maintain the product backlog, clearly express backlog items, and sequence work to achieve goals.
Define product vision, roadmap objectives, feature sequencing, and acceptance criteria for user stories.
Manage complex initiatives, cross-team dependencies, risks, and work intake across teams, programs, and product areas.
Collaborate with business leadership, product managers, development teams, platform engineers, architects, stakeholders, and other product owners.
Translate business needs into executable requirements and communicate project scope, objectives, and requirements.
Facilitate sprint activities and drive alignment and consensus across business and technical partners.
Establish product vision, identify customer opportunities, and ensure solutions are valuable, successful, and aligned with enterprise strategy and architectural direction.
Bring user communities together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, improve tools or training, discuss issues, and support process standardization.
Ensure the health and quality of processes and resulting products across the value stream.
Use analytics and measures of value, predictability, and quality to inform decisions and support consistent value delivery at scale.