Staff Agile Product Owner

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Staff Agile Product Owner to lead and enable multiple software development feature teams in delivering against high-level business goals within a Ground System product line. In this onsite role in Linthicum Heights, MD, you will own the integrated capability roadmap and represent the product management and customer voice within an Agile development environment.

What you’ll do

• Own and maintain the integrated capability roadmap for the product line.
• Collaborate with Project Leads to prioritize features and capabilities.
• Partner with the Chief Engineer to ensure capability and technical roadmaps stay aligned.
• Ensure roadmap priorities reflect customer needs and program strategy.
• Engage with Project Leads to support customer satisfaction and keep priorities clear.
• Work with Feature Team POs, Architects, and Project Leads to break down capabilities into features the teams can execute.
• Coordinate with SEIT, POs, Architects, and Project Leads to ensure features and capabilities are complete.
• Ensure features include stories that cover all work required for the Definition of Done.
• Ensure acceptance criteria are adequately defined, understood, and testable by the relevant stakeholders.
• Work directly with POs to support compliance with the roadmap and ensure the roadmap is effectively communicated to them.
• Maintain consistency and compliance across PO-owned work, including feature/story/acceptance criteria definition and feature acceptance.
• Present the contents entering each Joint Release (JR) at the Gate Review, providing context and purpose for each JR item.
• Participate in weekly tag-up with the customer, Joint Working Group meetings, and product line customer-facing meetings, while not acting as the voice of the product line.

What you bring

• Active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret / SCI security clearance (SCI).
• Bachelor’s degree completed.
• Relevant experience aligned to education level: 12 years with a Bachelor’s in Science, 10 years with a Master’s, or 8 years with a PhD.
• Experience with big-picture priorities and operating within a product line, including managing different customer priorities within a single baseline.
• Ability to translate high-level business goals into roadmaps and integrated roadmaps, including Gantt charts.
• Proficiency with Agile frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, or Scrum@Scale.
• Strong working knowledge of the Atlassian tool suite, especially JIRA.
• Strong written and oral communication, along with good interpersonal skills and leadership experience.

Technologies

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

Preferred qualifications

• Strong technical background in software development or systems engineering within an Agile software development program.
• Industry-recognized credentials such as CSPO, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (PO/PM), or CPrO-C.
• 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.

Compensation and location

Role location: Linthicum Heights, MD (onsite). Salary range: USD 169,000 - 265,600 per year.

Benefits

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

Additional details

• Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
• Relocation assistance: may be available
• Clearance required for start: Yes
• Clearance type: SCI