Product Owner

The Product Owner at HII is accountable for product outcomes within a Scrum framework, translating business needs into executable requirements and guiding delivery teams to create value through machine learning solutions.

Role Overview

In the Digital Plant organization, this role bridges stakeholders and technical teams to ensure machine learning operations (ML Ops) workflows align with strategic objectives. The position supports product leadership across delivery teams and helps drive planning, execution, and continuous improvement in a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment.

Responsibilities

• Drive product success by maximizing development team output within a Scrum framework.
• Order and maintain the product backlog, ensuring items are clearly expressed and prioritized to achieve goals and optimize value delivery.
• Facilitate sprint activities and collaborate with partners to create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product or project managers, and technical teams to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs related to scope, objectives, and requirements.
• Develop and adapt the product vision by creating new user stories and defining acceptance criteria for each story.
• Bring together members of the User Community to share knowledge, identify enhancements, and coordinate improvements to toolsets, training, and process standardization.
• Ensure process health and product quality across the value stream.
• Define product vision, manage the backlog, and prioritize features to support efficient deployment and software product lifecycle management.
• Provide product leadership for delivery teams, programs, or product areas within the IT division.
• Set roadmap objectives, sequence complex initiatives, manage cross-team dependencies, and drive alignment across business and technical partners.
• In a SAFe environment, partner with business leadership, product managers, delivery teams, platform engineers, and architects to align solutions with enterprise goals and architectural direction.
• Define and communicate product vision and roadmap for the application development team.
• Translate business requirements into actionable user stories and technical specifications.
• Monitor product performance and drive continuous improvement using feedback and metrics.

Required Skills and Experience

• Expertise in product ownership across complex or multi-team environments.
• Ability to define product strategy, roadmap elements, and feature sequencing.
• Competence in dependency management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder negotiation.
• Experience aligning multiple teams or programs to shared objectives.
• Strong analytics and decision-making grounded in metrics such as value, predictability, and quality.
• Ability to influence leadership and build cross-team consensus.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 0 years of relevant exempt experience.
• One of the following may be used as an equivalent to Bachelor's Degree:
  • Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.

Additional education equivalency and eligibility details: The listing includes multiple pathways for equivalency. These options begin with NNS Apprentice School graduate; Navy Nuclear Power School (NNPS) graduate; Associate's Degree or other formal 2 year program and 2 years of relevant exempt experience or 4 years of relevant non-exempt experience; Military Paygrade E-5 or above military experience; High School/GED and 4 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant exempt experience; High School/GED and 8 years c

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to use data to inform decisions.
• Experience using backlog management tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Tools and Technologies

• Agile methodologies
• DevOps
• ML Ops
• SAFe
• Jira
• Azure DevOps

Travel, Telework, and Relocation

• Travel: Yes, 10% to 25% of the time
• Virtual/Telework: No (Not eligible for telework)
• Relocation: No relocation assistance available

Clearance and Citizenship Requirements

• Clearance required to start: No (Clearance Not Required to Start)
• U.S. citizenship required: Yes

Compensation and Location

• Location: Newport News, VA (onsite)
• Salary: USD 64,000 - 81,000 per year