Hybrid Product Owner

at Mission Technologies, a division of HII

• Job title: Product Owner
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $115,716 - $180,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Augusta, United States

About the role

• Product Owner supporting U.S. Army Cyber Command operations and growth strategy at HII. Manage relationships, project management, and DevSecOps support for government customers.

Responsibilities

• Establish, foster and strengthen relationships between company and targeted government customers.
• Function as the account lead and work to integrate directly into the customers daily operations.
• Provide company leadership a quarterly update on the project status, key customer engagements and overall assessment of the government's direction and adoption of capabilities.
• Responsible for understanding our technology / capabilities and championing accordingly.
• Work with the company marketing team to develop and implement marketing and business plans, operational roadmaps, and action plans for identified targets of opportunity.
• Contribute to the development of new, competitive proposals.
• Expand future opportunities by working with existing customers.
• Establish an understanding of all Tiers of the Army Network to support our work towards implementing new data pipeline solutions from the Army base level to the enterprise.
• Collaborate with our internal customer leads and engineers to fully understand software requirements for the Army and ensure requirements are conveyed to developers by establishing development roadmaps.
• Identify new market opportunities and target markets.
• Document and maintain opportunities in company pipeline tools.
• Develop customer relationships and maintain updated knowledge of customer plans, programs, and general market intelligence.
• Develop an external network of solution partners and providers.
• Collaborate with internal marketing and engineering departments.
• Own the customer experience success from start to finish.
• Work closely with company development and engineer teams to ensure DevSecOps pipeline delivery dates track with customer targets and timelines.
• Act as the focal point to pushing capabilities out to the customer.
• Ensure the customer is fully aware of relevant DevSecOps pipeline touchpoints to ensure acceptance of new updates, features or capabilities.
• Support identifying, pursuing, and capturing new business opportunities within the Department of Defense (DoD).

Requirements

• Security Clearance: A current TS/SCI with CI Polygraph level U.S. Government security clearance is required; U.S. citizenship required.
• 9+ years in DoD cyber, agile development, and/or big data with a B.A. in Business, a technical field, or related;
• 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.
• Must have prior government or military experience with any of the following organizations: MARFORCYBER, DCSA, DISA, Army Cyber, U.S. Cyber Command, U.S. Air Force (AFCYBER), or 10TH Fleet / Navy Cyber.
• Experience directly managing complex technical projects and or programs.
• Understands budget practices and acquisitions shop with the organizations or has relationships with people who do.
• Strong computer skills including MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint.
• Understanding of customer buying teams and how to sell to individual influencers.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interact effectively with others.
• Ability to speak in a public forum.
• Excellent interviewing skills including active listening and empathy.
• Will participate in the full lifecycle of Business Development, including proposal support, staffing, opportunity identification, bid / no-bid analysis, RFI / Market Responses, etc.
• Excellent organizational and attention to detail skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25%, sometimes on short notice CONUS or OCONUS.
• Ability to work on customer site 2-3 days a week at either Fort Gordon, GA or the Georgia Cyber Center (GCC).

Benefits

• 100% paid employee premium for healthcare, vision and dental plans.
• 10% 401k benefit.
• Generous PTO + 10 paid holidays.
• Education/training allowances.