Staff Agile Product Owner - Morrisville (TS/SCI)

Northrop Grumman • Morrisville, NC

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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. The role guides and collaborates with Feature Team Product Owners to define work and help the integrated team manage priorities, cross-team dependencies, and blockers to deliver capabilities within a defined period.

The CPO owns and maintains the integrated capability roadmap, aligns capability and technical roadmaps, and helps ensure priorities reflect customer needs and program strategy. The role partners with Project Leads, the Chief Engineer, Feature Team Product Owners, architects, SEIT, and other stakeholders to decompose capabilities into executable features, ensure feature and capability completeness, and establish stories and testable acceptance criteria. The CPO ensures Product Owners’ work is consistent with and compliant with the roadmap, presents Joint Release contents at Gate Reviews, and participates in customer and product-line meetings.

The role requires an active U.S. Government Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance and travel of approximately 10% of the time. Relocation assistance may be available. The stated primary salary range is $169,000 to $253,600. The position may also be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus. Northrop Grumman describes its benefits as including health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off.

Requirements

• Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance.
• Completed bachelor's degree.
• Relevant experience in systems engineering, software engineering, business leadership, or product development: 14 years with a Bachelor of Science, 12 years with a master's degree, or 10 years with a Ph.D.
• Experience managing big-picture priorities within a product line or 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 with 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 to 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.
• Work with the Chief Engineer to align capability and technical roadmaps.
• Ensure priorities align with customer needs and program strategy.
• Communicate with Project Leads to support customer satisfaction and priority alignment.
• Collaborate with Feature Team Product Owners, architects, and Project Leads to break down capabilities into executable features.
• Work with SEIT, Product Owners, architects, and Project Leads to ensure features and capabilities are complete.
• Ensure features include stories for all work required to meet 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 communicate the roadmap effectively.
• Ensure consistency and compliance in Product Owners’ work, including feature and story definition and feature acceptance.
• Present Joint Release contents at Gate Reviews, providing context and purpose for each item, in collaboration 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.
• Relocation assistance may be available.
• Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior