Product Owner - Digital Plant

## The Role Responsible for the success of the product by maximizing the output of the development team within a scrum framework. Responsible for ordering backlog, clearly expressing the product backlog items, ordering the items to best achieve goals and optimize the value of the work the team performs. Lead collaboration, facilitate sprint activities, and create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements. Work closely with business stakeholders, product/project managers, and technical teams to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs to ensure full understanding of project scope, objectives, and requirements. Develop and adapt the product vision, writing new user stories, and specify acceptance of each user story. Bring members of the User Community together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, manage toolset or training improvements, discuss issues, and drive toward process standardization. Ensure the health and quality of specific processes and resulting products across the value stream. We are seeking a Product Owner to join our Digital Plant team and drive the development and delivery of machine learning solutions that create business value. In this role, you will serve as the bridge between stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that ML Ops workflows align with strategic objectives. You will define product vision, manage the backlog, and prioritize features to enable efficient deployment and lifecycle management of software products. The Product Owner provides product leadership for delivery teams, programs, or product areas within the IT division. This role defines roadmap objectives, sequences complex initiatives, manages cross team dependencies, and drives alignment across business and technical partners. Operating within a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment, the Product Owner partners with business leadership, product managers, delivery teams, platform engineers, and architects to ensure solutions meet enterprise goals and architectural direction. This role has significant influence on product strategy and ensures consistent value delivery at scale. ## Key Responsibilities - Defining and communicating product vision and roadmap for the application development team. - Translating business requirements into actionable user stories and technical specifications. - Managing and prioritizing the product backlog to maximize value delivery. - Monitoring product performance and driving continuous improvement based on feedback and metrics. - Expertise in product ownership across complex or multi team environments. - Ability to define product strategy, roadmap elements, and feature sequencing. - Skill in dependency management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder negotiation. - Experience aligning multiple teams or programs to shared objectives. - Strong analytics and decision making based on metrics like value, predictability, and quality. - Ability to influence leadership and drive cross team consensus. ## Must Have Bachelor's Degree and 0 years of relevant exempt experience. One of the following may be used as an equivalent to Bachelor's Degree: - NNS Apprentice School graduate - Navy Nuclear Power School (NNPS) graduate - Associate's Degree or other formal 2 year program and 2 years of relevant exempt experience or 4 years of relevant non-exempt experience - Military Paygrade E-5 or above military experience - High School/GED and 4 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant exempt experience - High School/GED and 8 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant non-exempt experience - Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with minimum 0 years of professional experience. - Strong understanding of Agile methodologies. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. - Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business requirements. - Familiarity with software development lifecycle, DevOps and ML Ops principles. ## Nice to Have - Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role. - Strong analytical skills and ability to use data to inform decisions. - Experience with backlog management tools (Jira, Azure DevOps). - Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.