Technical Product Owner / Project Manager

Spargo Inc is hiring a Technical Product Owner / Project Manager for a hybrid role based in Reston, VA. This position blends product ownership, project management, and business analysis to ensure teams receive development-ready requirements and that delivery stays aligned with business needs and commitments.

The role will be primarily remote for candidates in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area, with initial onsite training in Reston, VA and mandatory onsite meetings at the Reston offices. You will serve as a key connection between business stakeholders, clients, developers, QA, IT, and operational teams.

What you’ll do

• Act as Product Owner for assigned products, applications, enhancements, and initiatives.
• Gather, analyze, and document business and functional requirements.
• Convert business needs into Jira epics, stories, and tasks that teams can execute.
• Create user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process flows, and supporting documentation.
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog using business needs, client commitments, dependencies, and technical priorities.
• Ensure requirements are complete and development-ready before work begins.
• Manage projects from planning through implementation, including milestones, deliverables, owners, dependencies, and target dates.
• Identify and escalate risks, blockers, resource constraints, and schedule impacts in a proactive manner.
• Partner with developers and QA to clarify requirements and resolve questions during development and testing.
• Coordinate with internal teams, clients, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Lead project and requirements meetings and ensure decisions and action items are documented and completed.
• Maintain accurate project status, requirements, and supporting information in Jira and other project-management tools.
• Communicate project status, priorities, risks, and changes clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

What you bring

• Experience in product ownership, project management, business analysis, or a combination of these areas.
• Experience gathering and documenting business and functional requirements.
• Strong project-management, organizational, and prioritization skills.
• Experience working with developers, QA, business stakeholders, and operational teams.
• Experience creating user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to identify requirement gaps, dependencies, risks, and unresolved issues.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and follow work through completion.
• Experience with Jira or a similar work-management platform.

Technologies

• Jira
• Microsoft 365

Compensation

USD 115,000 - 125,000 per year.

Benefits

• Casual Work Environment
• 100% Company Paid Medical (choice of 3 plans), plus Dental and Vision for Employee
• Available FSA or HSA account
• 100% Company paid Basic Term Life and AD&D Insurance
• 100% Company paid Long Term Disability Insurance
• AFLAC is available
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid Sick and Vacation Leave

Nice to have

• Experience in an Agile or hybrid software-development environment.
• Experience with software implementations, integrations, APIs, data exchanges, or data mapping.
• Experience with client-facing technology solutions.
• Experience supporting QA and user acceptance testing.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 collaboration tools.