The Product Owner (T3/T4) leads a software product team within Northrop Grumman Space Sector, onsite in El Segundo, CA. This role centers on owning the product roadmap, coordinating multiple stakeholders, and guiding agile software delivery.
Role Overview
As the Product Owner for a software development team, you will steer priorities, maintain alignment with government needs, and drive delivery within an agile framework. This onsite position emphasizes stakeholder collaboration, roadmap ownership, and cross-program coordination to strengthen warfighter capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Product Owner for a software development team
- Fulfill the CAM role, keep the budget updated, and manage the staffing plan
- Provide regular briefings to executive leadership and customers
- Coordinate and prioritize stakeholder needs across multiple products
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to develop solutions addressing government needs across programs and to advance warfighter capabilities
- Own the integrated Product Roadmap, defining priorities of software capabilities aligned with stakeholder mission needs
- Iterate the Product Roadmap with stakeholders to address evolving priorities
- Translate stakeholders' needs into the product backlog, refine and prioritize backlog items, and support backlog refinement and story mapping
- Drive team performance to meet sprint and release commitments, escalate and remove impediments, and report status to senior management
- Engage in Program Increment (PI) Planning Activities; ensure PI objectives reflect customer priorities and business value, identify risks and dependencies for the Scrum Team and across the program
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, System Engineering, or similar plus 5 years of experience, or a master’s with 3 years of experience
- Software Development experience
- 1+ years of CAM experience
- EVM Experience 1+ years
- Must be a US Citizen
- Active Top Secret and ability to obtain and maintain SCI access at time of application
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, System Engineering, or similar plus 8 years of experience, or a master’s with 6 years of experience
- Product Owner Certification
- 2+ years CAM experience
- 2+ years EVM Experience
Technologies
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Annual bonuses
- Long Term Incentives
Relocation Assistance
No relocation assistance available
Clearance Required for Start
Yes
Clearance Type
SCI
Travel
Yes, 10% of the Time
Description
Northrop Grumman provides opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact lives globally today and for the future. The company values bold ideas and a pioneering spirit to shape the future while enjoying the process. A culture of intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity, and authentic self-expression drives the organization to achieve what others deem impossible. Employees are not only part of history, they are making history. The Space Sector is seeking a Product Owner for a software product team to be onsite in Chantilly, Dulles, Fairfax VA or El Segundo.
Job Description
- Serve as the Product Owner for a software development team
- Fulfill the CAM role, keep budget updated, and manage staffing plan
- Provide regular briefings to Executive Leadership and Customers
- Coordinate and prioritize the needs for multiple stakeholders across multiple products
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to develop solutions addressing government needs across programs and advance warfighter capabilities
- Own the integrated Product Roadmap, defining the priorities of software capabilities aligned with stakeholder mission needs
- Iterate Product Roadmap with stakeholders to address evolving priorities
- Decompose stakeholders' needs to create, refine, and prioritize the product backlog; support all aspects of backlog refinement and story mapping
- Drive performance of the team to accomplish sprint and release commitments, escalate and remove impediments, and participate in status and progress reporting to senior management
- Engage in Program Increment (PI) Planning Activities; ensure PI objectives reflect customer priorities and business value, identify risks and dependencies for the Scrum Team and across the program
