Product Owner

Company: Maxar Technologies
Location: Charlottesville
Posted on: March 28, 2020

Job Description:

Our team is looking for a dedicated Product Owner. Our government customers and our development team need an arbiter and an advocate. They need someone that can translate the customers strategic vision and user needs into a tangible product road-map.

Life with Us

Your Project: Were about to release our web application into true production. Thus far weve had a small group of users working closely with our development team to define requirements and test new features. Weve got an MVP now and its about to go live incrementally to a much larger group.

Your Career: Were very serious about professional development and continuing education. We offer everyone the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has some amazing resources at its disposal specifically for this purpose. You will work with your direct supervisor and/or a mentor to set appropriate goals and design a plan to help you make consistent progress.

We offer:

Dedicated professional development time.

Conference attendance.

Corporate partner, industry training.

Peer groups.

Paid certifications.

Education reimbursement.

Hackathons!

and much more...

Day-to-day with your colleagues:

Meet on a regular cadence with our customers to update them on build progress, collect their feedback, and prioritize new feature requests.

Attend daily stand-ups to stay abreast on feature progress and update the road-map timeline with the relevant information.

Participate in all major development meetings, e.g. Sprint planning, retrospectives, and interim feature demos.

Keep all Epics in the development backlog up to date with detailed information and prioritized according to customer needs.

Requirements/Skills

Minimum Requirements

Must have an current/active TS/SCI security clearance and willing and able to obtain a CI Poy.

2 to 5 years of software development experience, majority customer facing.

Bachelor's degree in a related field, e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, UX/UI Design.

Recent experience with:Lean-Agile software development.

Project planning.

If you also had these skills thatd be amazing:

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).

SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM).

Experience with Atlassian software suite, Confluence and Jira specifically.

Knowledge, applied use of Design Thinking principles.

Human-Centered Design exposure.

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