Product Owner – NASA

Key Responsibilities

Serve as the Product Owner within APS Shared Services, Agile Release Train (ART) throughout all stages of the product life cycle; Introduction, Growth, Maturity, and Decline. Work closely with business owners, customers, stakeholders, system architects, product management team, and others ensuring business value, and aligning outcomes. Identify problems to be solved, guide story creation ensuring they are aligned with product strategy, assist with ART backlog prioritization, communicate the roadmap during PI Planning, and accept stories. Continually evaluate progress toward story acceptance criteria and value delivered from the backlog. Participate in iteration planning, backlog refinement, iteration reviews, team retrospectives, and team sync meeting.

Qualification & Requirements

EDUCATION

• BA/BS degree and 8 years relevant experience as a Product Owner. Previous experience performing as a Product Owner across multiple teams within the Agile Release Train (ART). Minimum 5 years’ experience utilizing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Experience

• Provide outstanding communication to Product Management, customers, stakeholders, and all other members of the ART.
• Extremely organized with excellent time-management skills.
• Highly motivated and able to shift gears rapidly and frequently as needed or as dictated by the customer.
• Must be process oriented and able to adhere to defined procedural guidance.
• Must have initiative and ability to drive projects to success and prioritize multiple high-visibility tasks.
• Able to tailor technical communications, both verbally and written to audiences possessing a varying degree of IT experience and knowledge.
• Must work well both independently and with various stakeholders from other NASA Programs/Organizations including contractors from eMITS and other contracts.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Certified SAFe Practitioner.
• Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager.
• Familiarity with System Applications and Products (SAP). 3-5 years of experience serving in the Product Manager or a Product Manager support role.
• Familiarity with Power Automate tools, Jira, PI Planning.io, Mural, and Jira Align.
• Very experienced with advanced utilization of various Microsoft applications such as Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft 365.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Previous experience with NASA.

Benefits

• Insurance Benefits
• Retirement Benefits
• Vacation Policy
• Other Perks and Benefits…