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Product Owner

iDirect GOVERNMENT
Herndon, VA Remote Full Time
POSTED ON 4/4/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/3/2026

Overview

The Product Owner partners with a Product Manager and oversees new products and feature enhancements, planning and directing activities to ensure the timely development and delivery of reliable and efficient solutions to business requirements, and developing acceptance criteria to validate that the resulting product meets market/customer requirements. This position is primarily focused on the systems architecture, resourcing, development, engineering, scheduling and delivery side of the product management organization. The PO defines the sprints, collaborates with the scrum masters, works with teams and individual developers to ensure delivery is timely, complete and of the highest quality. They determine the completeness of a product and declare it ready for release to customers. Product Owners also work with the support organizations to ensure that they have the technical training necessary to properly support customers. Great product owners can come from anywhere but are more typically trained engineers with project management training and engineering degrees. 

Responsibilities

Includes and is not limited to the following:

 

  • Work with Product Manager(s) to understand approved business cases and translate them into executable product use cases and scenarios 
  • Develop subject matter expertise related to products and technical best practices 
  • Serve as sole interface with scrum team(s) by working with key project stakeholders and consolidating, validating, filtering requests for new requirements impacting engineering work 
  • Own prioritization of the product backlog including definition of user stories and acceptance criteria 
  • Work with assigned engineering scrum teams to plan workflow, define user stories and acceptable criteria 
  • Define sprints and manage backlog to plan 
  • Identification and escalation of issues/obstacles to delivering the product as defined 
  • Responsible for delivering a complete system to the company 
  • Responsible for delivering finished product (including documentation, adequate testing, appropriate functional and performance capabilities) as co-defined with Product Manager 

Qualifications

  • Leadership in a technical environment with demonstrated communication skills (written and verbal) 
  • Background in engineering preferred; must be able to understand the technical aspect of the product 
  • 3 years of experience functioning in a fast-paced Product Owner or similar role 
  • Ability to effectively partner with Product Manager to translate market and customer needs into consumable Epics and Stories with tangible acceptance criteria for engineering organization 
  • Experience in satellite communications, networking or telecommunications 
  • Experience managing release activities 
  • Ability to lead teams and drive projects to successful outcomes 
  • Demonstrated ability to ramp up on new technologies quickly 
  • Agile certification a plus 
  • Self-starter with a sense of urgency 
  • 7 years progressive experience as Product Manager in STEM related field; satellite, networking, or telecommunications experience preferred 

 

Education: STEM related Bachelor of Science 

 

Clearance: Active DoD clearance or ability to obtain a secret DoD clearance. 

 

Travel: Ability to travel 10% per year 

 

iDirect Government is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or protected veteran status. 

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