Product Owner

American Operations Corporation

$85K — $110K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Must possess DoD Secret Clearance
  • 7+ years of enterprise application support experience
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Technical skills in Agile backlog management and requirements analysis
  • Preferred certifications include SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager and Scrum Product Owner

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the operational owner of the product backlog for assigned BMx systems
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure backlog priorities align with mission requirements
  • Refine backlog, prioritize user stories, and develop acceptance criteria
  • Coordinate modernization sequencing and operational release alignment
  • Evaluate modernization candidates and validate operational impacts
  • Prioritize technical debt remediation and coordinate release readiness activities

Benefits

  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Plan (401k)
  • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
  • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
  • Short Term & Long Term Disability
Full Job Description
Serves as the operational and functional owner of the product backlog for assigned BMx systems or capability areas. The Product Owner works directly with Government stakeholders, Functional SMEs, Help Desk personnel, Scrum Masters, System Architects, and DevSecOps leadership to ensure backlog priorities align with operational mission requirements, maintenance workflows, PMEL operations, modernization objectives, cybersecurity requirements, and cloud migration activities.

The Product Owner is responsible for backlog refinement, user story prioritization, acceptance criteria development, technical debt prioritization, modernization sequencing coordination, and operational release alignment. This role continuously balances sustainment demands, emergent deficiencies, modernization initiatives, and operational priorities to ensure Agile teams focus on delivering the highest operational value without destabilizing mission-critical workflows.

The Product Owner also plays a central role in evaluating modernization candidates, validating operational impacts, prioritizing technical debt remediation, and coordinating release readiness activities affecting maintenance scheduling, calibration workflows, readiness reporting, and enterprise logistics operations.

Requirements

Must posses DoD Secret Clearance
Technical Skills
• Agile backlog management
• Requirements analysis
• User story decomposition
• Operational workflow analysis
• Enterprise system sustainment
• Functional mission support

Certifications

Preferred:
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager
• Scrum Product Owner

Education
• Bachelor's degree.

Experience
• 7+ years enterprise application support experience.
• Functional expertise in maintenance/logistics/PMEL environments preferred.

Benefits
  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Plan (401k)
  • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
  • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
  • Short Term & Long Term Disability

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