Product Owner

Job Title - Product Owner

Location: 100% remote but candidate should be close to Norfolk, VA as they need to travel to client site somewhat frequently

Interview: video

Duration: 1+ year

Besides the standard product owner experience the core areas that I have been focused on are:

1. Public sector experience (e.g. having gone through the FedRAMP process or worked with a product that has)
2. Discovery skills (evidence of being able to take a greenfield product through discovery and then begin feature development)
3. Communication (we expect them to eventually grow to be the face of the product so being able to convey idea, concepts, and talk to the customer)

Location: The role is not technically onsite, but the person would need to be frequently onsite during the first 1-2 months and travel to the customer semi-frequently. Therefore, being located close to Norfolk, VA is important.



Main Responsibilities

Work Location : this role is based onsite at Norfolk, VA during Discovery

• Based onsite at the customer's site for an early discovery phase, to directly capture requirements and build the working relationship the role depends on for the rest of the engagement.

Product Backlog Ownership : owns and prioritizes the program's product backlog end to end

• Owns and maintains priority for the full product backlog, translating discovery findings into build-ready priorities that the platform Development Team executes against.
• Coordinates backlog sequencing across supporting workstreams (data integration, data migration, Looker dashboards) so priority calls reflect real cross-workstream dependencies, not just the platform in isolation.

Platform Vision & Reusability : ensures the platform is built as a reusable asset, not a one-off

• Responsible for ensuring the platform is architected and prioritized as a reusable asset for the broader defense shipbuilding supply chain, not just for the customer alone.
• Brings prior experience building and planning platforms intended for deployment and maintenance across multiple clients; this is treated as a hard prerequisite for the role given the platform's product ambitions.

Discovery & Requirements Leadership : leads the definition of how the platform's four role experiences work

• Leads the core workflow definition effort during an early discovery phase, redefining exactly how the Admin, Foreman, QC, and Technician role experiences will use the application.
• Owns definition of the platform's KPI Tracking Framework, translating the program's three presales KPI targets into a validated, trackable set of success measures agreed with the customer and Google.

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement : is the primary point of engagement with the customer on platform direction

• Engages directly with the customer to develop the long-term platform plan and understand evolving platform needs beyond the initial scope of work.
• Represents the platform's product direction in program governance, including the monthly steering committee and weekly working calls, alongside Google Public Sector and Navy stakeholder expectations.

Skills

Must-have

• 5-8+ years of Product Owner / Product Management experience, including backlog ownership at a program (not single-team) level
• Demonstrated experience building or planning a software platform intended for reuse and deployment across multiple clients
• Experience defining or refining KPI/measurement frameworks in partnership with a customer
• Experience gathering and translating multi-persona workflow requirements (e.g., distinct role-based experiences) into actionable backlog items
• Comfortable working onsite at a customer site for an extended discovery period
• US-person status, consistent with the CUI/FedRAMP High/IL4 access restrictions governing this engagement

Nice-to-have

• Experience in Department of Defense, Navy, or other federal/public-sector engagements
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and Google Public Sector engagement models
• Exposure to AI-enabled or agentic platforms (RAG pipelines, AI agents)
• Manufacturing, shipbuilding, or industrial operations domain knowledge
• Experience coordinating governance across multiple concurrent delivery teams