Chief Product Owner

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Chief Product Owner to represent Product Management and serve as the customer voice across Agile development teams. In this onsite role in Aurora, CO, you will lead and enable multiple feature teams to work from an integrated roadmap that supports customer needs and program strategy.

Role focus

• Customer voice in Agile delivery: Represent Product Management and communicate customer perspectives within Agile development teams.
• Integrated capability leadership: Own and maintain the Integrated Capability Roadmap.
• Cross-team alignment: Guide and collaborate with multiple Feature Team Product Owners so the teams collectively manage priorities, cross-team dependencies, and blockers to deliver capabilities within defined timeframes.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with Project Leads to prioritize Features and Capabilities.
• Partner with the Chief Engineer to ensure Capability and Technical Roadmap alignment.
• Ensure priorities align with customer needs and program strategy.
• Engage with Project Leads to support customer satisfaction and clarify priorities.
• Work with Feature Team Product Owners, Architects, and Project Leads to break down capabilities into features teams can execute.
• Partner with SEIT, POs, Architects, and Project Leads to ensure completeness of features and capabilities.
• Ensure features include stories needed to complete work required for the Definition of Done.
• Ensure acceptance criteria defined by Project Leads are adequately defined, understood, and testable.
• Work directly with POs to ensure roadmap compliance and effective communication of the roadmap.
• Maintain consistency and compliance across PO work, including feature/story/acceptance criteria definition and feature acceptance.
• Present Joint Release (JR) items at Gate Review with context and purpose; Gate Reviews are a joint effort between the CPO and the I&T Lead.
• Attend weekly customer tag-ups, Joint Working Group meetings, and Product Line customer-facing meetings, while not serving as the voice of the product line.

Required qualifications

• Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance.
• Completed Bachelor’s degree.
• Relevant experience based on highest degree: 8 years with a Bachelor’s in Science; 6 years with a Master’s; 4 years with a PhD.
• Experience with big picture priorities and operating within a product line, or managing multiple customer priorities within a single baseline.
• Experience translating high-level business goals into roadmaps, Gantt charts, and/or integrated roadmaps.
• Agile framework mastery (examples include SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale).
• Proficiency using Atlassian tool suite, especially JIRA.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, plus good interpersonal skills and leadership experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Strong technical background in software development or systems engineering within an Agile software development program.
• Industry-recognized credentials such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (PO/PM), or CPrO-C (Chief Product Officer – Certified).
• Strong data analysis and visualization skills.
• Proven track record managing, mentoring, and scaling cross-functional product and engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze feature team performance metrics and identify trends to course-correct and/or implement process changes.

Technologies

• JIRA
• Atlassian tool suite
• SAFe
• LeSS
• Scrum@Scale

Compensation and work details

• Location: Aurora, CO (onsite)
• Salary: USD 135,800 - 213,400 per year
• Primary level range: $135,800.00 - $213,400.00
• Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
• Clearance required for start: Yes
• Clearance type: SCI
• Relocation assistance: May be available
• U.S. Citizenship: Required for positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted roles

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards and benefits package
• Health insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
• Depending on the position, eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay
• Annual bonuses designed to reward individual contributions and share in company results
• Long Term Incentives eligibility for employees in Vice President or Director positions

Application period: Estimated at 20 days from the job posting date (may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability).