Req ID: 50604
Team: T55 SOLUTIONS DEV
Entity: Newport News Shipbuilding
US Citizenship Required for this Position: Yes
Full-Time
Shift: 1st
Relocation: No relocation assistance available
Virtual/Telework Opportunity: Yes - Telework available up to 100%
Travel Requirements: No
Clearance Required: No - Clearance Not Required to Start
Salary Range: $147,000.00 to $184,000.00
The anticipated salary range represents the estimated base pay for this role. Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors, and may vary from the posted range
The Role
Responsible for the success of the product by maximizing the output of the development team within a scrum framework. Responsible for ordering backlog, clearly expressing the product backlog items, ordering the items to best achieve goals and optimize the value of the work the team performs. Lead collaboration, facilitate sprint activities, and create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements. Work closely with business stakeholders,
product/project managers, and technical teams to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs to ensure full understanding of project scope, objectives, and requirements. Develop and adapt the product vision, writing new user stories, and specify acceptance of each user story. Bring members of the User Community together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, manage toolset or training improvements, discuss issues, and drive toward process standardization.
Ensure the health and quality of specific processes and resulting products across the value stream.
Newport News Shipbuilding's Information Technology team is seeking a Product Owner to provide senior level product leadership for capabilities spanning multiple development teams, programs, and product areas. The role defines roadmap objectives, sequences complex initiatives, manages cross team dependencies, and drives alignment across business and technical partners. Operating within a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment, the Product Owner partners with business leadership, product managers, development teams, platform engineers, and architects to ensure solutions meet enterprise goals and architectural direction. This role has significant influence on product strategy and ensures consistent value delivery at scale.
Key Responsibilities
The Product Owner acts as a strategic partner to drive consistency, innovation, and maturity across NNS's technical, digital, and operational excellence initiatives. This role partners closely with many divisions across NNS and has experience working with the following teams:
• Human Resources
• Payroll
• Finance
• Earned Value Management
• Sharepoint
The candidate should have extensive experience and knowledge of portfolio management. They will collaborate to establish product vision, identify new customer opportunities, ensure the solutions are valuable and successful, facilitate communication and relationships between other product owners and technology, and prioritize and manage work intake.
Join Newport News Shipbuilding's Information Technology team and lead talented professionals delivering secure, innovative technology solutions for critical business operations and U.S. Navy programs.
At Newport News Shipbuilding, you will have the opportunity to lead talented technology professionals and contribute to solutions that support one of the nation's most important shipbuilding organizations and its U.S. Navy customers
Basic Qualifications
• Demonstrated experience delivering large technical programs. The complexity of initiatives like cloud, IIOT, modular data architectures, AI and predictive planning at enterprise scale require deep technical execution fluency - not just oversight.
• Deep expertise in product ownership across complex or multi team environments
• Ability to define product strategy, roadmap elements, and feature sequencing
• Skill in dependency management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder negotiation
• Experience aligning multiple teams or programs to shared objectives
• Strong analytics and decision making based on metrics like value, predictability, and quality
• Ability to influence leadership and drive cross team consensus
• Ensure solutions have alignment with enterprise strategy
Must Have
Bachelor's Degree and 14 years of relevant exempt experience; Master's Degree and 12 years of relevant professional experience; Ph.D. and 9 years of experience.
Nice to Have
• Experience with enterprise level initiatives or platform responsibilities
• Value stream mapping, Lean prioritization, or portfolio planning experience
• Ability to define and enforce product workflows, standards, or governance practices
• Advanced SAFe or product management certification
• Experience shaping long range product planning and financial prioritization
