Staff Agile Product Owner

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is looking for a Staff Agile Product Owner to serve as the Chief Product Owner (CPO) for a Ground System product line. In this onsite role in Aurora, CO, you will lead and enable multiple software feature teams to implement high-level business goals, while acting as the customer voice within Agile execution. You will own integrated roadmapping, coordinate cross-team alignment, and help drive capabilities to completion within a defined period.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the Integrated Capability Roadmap for the product line.
• Partner with Project Leads to prioritize features and capabilities.
• Work with the Chief Engineer to ensure the capability roadmap aligns with the technical roadmap.
• Ensure priorities align with customer needs and program strategy.
• Communicate with Project Leads to support customer satisfaction and agreed priorities.
• Collaborate with Feature Team POs, Architects, and Project Leads to break down capabilities into executable features.
• Work with SEIT, POs, Architects, and Project Leads to ensure features and capabilities are complete.
• Ensure features include stories needed to complete all 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 roadmap communication to PO teams.
• Maintain consistency and compliance across PO outputs, including feature/story/AC definitions and feature acceptance.
• Present Joint Release (JR) items at the Gate Review by providing context and purpose of each JR entry.
• Participate in Gate Reviews, which 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; act as a participant rather than the voice of the product line.

Requirements

• Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret/SCI security clearance (Top Secret with SCI).
• Completed Bachelor’s degree plus 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, software engineering, business leadership, or product development.
• Experience with big-picture priorities across a product line, or managing different customer priorities within one baseline.
• Experience translating high-level business goals into roadmaps and Gantt charts and/or integrated roadmaps.
• Mastery of Agile frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, or Scrum@Scale.
• Proficiency with Atlassian tool suite, especially JIRA.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• 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 to identify trends and course-correct or implement process changes.

Tools and Technologies

• SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale
• Atlassian tool suite (including JIRA)
• Gantt charts

Location: Aurora, CO (onsite). Travel: Yes, 10% of the time. Relocation assistance: May be available. Clearance required for start: Yes. Clearance type: SCI. Salary range: USD 169,000 - 265,600 per year.