Sr Principal Agile Product Owner - Morrisville (TS/SCI)
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Chief Product Owner (CPO) to lead and enable multiple software development feature teams implementing high-level business goals across a Ground System product line supporting multiple constellations. The CPO represents Product Management and serves as the voice of customers on the Agile development team. In collaboration with Feature Team Product Owners, the CPO helps define work so the integrated team can manage priorities, cross-team dependencies, and blockers and deliver capabilities within a defined period. The CPO owns and maintains the integrated capability roadmap, working with Project Leads to prioritize features and capabilities and with the Chief Engineer to align capability and technical roadmaps. The position ensures priorities reflect customer needs and program strategy, and works with Feature Team Product Owners, architects, Project Leads, and SEIT to break down capabilities into complete, executable features. The CPO is accountable for ensuring features include the stories needed to meet the Definition of Done, acceptance criteria are adequately defined and testable, and Product Owners follow and communicate the roadmap consistently. The CPO presents Joint Release items at Gate Reviews, explaining their context and purpose in coordination with the I&T Lead. The role also attends weekly customer tag-ups, Joint Working Group meetings, and Product Line customer-facing meetings; the CPO is not expected to be the voice of the product line. The position requires an active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance. Relocation assistance may be available, and travel is 10% of the time.
Requirements
- Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance.
- Completed bachelor's degree and relevant experience in systems engineering, software engineering, business leadership, or product development: 8 years with a bachelor's degree in science, 6 years with a master's degree, or 4 years with a Ph.D.
- Experience with big-picture priorities and operating within a product line, or experience managing different customer priorities in one baseline.
- Experience translating high-level business goals into roadmaps, Gantt charts, and/or integrated roadmaps.
- Mastery of Agile frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, or Scrum@Scale.
- Proficiency in the Atlassian tool suite, especially JIRA.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Good interpersonal skills and leadership experience.
Nice To Haves
- Strong technical background in software development or systems engineering within an Agile software development program.
- Industry-recognized credentials such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (PO/PM), or CPrO-C (Chief Product Officer – Certified).
- Strong data analysis and visualization skills.
- Proven track record of managing, mentoring, and scaling cross-functional product and engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze feature-team performance metrics, identify trends, and course-correct or implement process changes as needed.
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the integrated capability roadmap.
- Work with Project Leads to prioritize features and capabilities.
- Align capability and technical roadmaps with the Chief Engineer.
- Ensure priorities align with customer needs and program strategy, and communicate with Project Leads to support customer satisfaction and priorities.
- Work with Feature Team Product Owners, architects, and Project Leads to break capabilities down into features teams can execute.
- Work with SEIT, Product Owners, architects, and Project Leads to ensure features and capabilities are complete.
- Ensure features contain the stories needed to perform all work required for the Definition of Done.
- Ensure acceptance criteria defined by Project Leads are adequately defined, understood, and testable.
- Work with Product Owners to ensure compliance with the roadmap and effective communication of the roadmap.
- Ensure consistency and compliance in Product Owners’ work, including feature and story definition, acceptance criteria, and feature acceptance.
- Present Joint Release items at Gate Reviews, providing context and purpose in a joint effort with the I&T Lead.
- Attend weekly customer tag-ups, Joint Working Group meetings, and Product Line customer-facing meetings.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company-paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
