Senior Technical Product Owner

Title: Senior Technical Product Owner

Location: Washington, DC (Onsite)

Interview Process: In-person interview required

U.S. Citizenship Required

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Product Owner to define product vision, establish priorities, and develop an actionable roadmap for research-collaboration tools and platforms.

The ideal candidate combines strong product ownership and requirements management experience with practical technical knowledge of developer collaboration, source-control systems, technical authoring platforms, and file-sharing technologies. This role will work closely with business stakeholders, engineers, DevSecOps teams, and platform architects to translate research-collaboration needs into technical requirements, user stories, and feasible integration strategies.

The successful candidate will be comfortable evaluating platform capabilities, identifying technical constraints, assessing architectural tradeoffs, and ensuring that product priorities align with broader platform objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Product Vision and Requirements

• Define product vision, priorities, and roadmaps for research-collaboration tools and technologies.
• Elicit and validate requirements with business stakeholders, architects, and technical subject-matter experts.
• Translate business and research-collaboration needs into clear technical specifications and actionable user stories.
• Prioritize features and enhancements based on business value, technical feasibility, and platform requirements.
• Maintain requirements traceability from initial business needs through technical implementation and delivery.

Platform and Technical Assessment

• Maintain working knowledge of source-control and developer-collaboration platforms, technical authoring tools, research-collaboration platforms, and file-sharing solutions.
• Evaluate platform capabilities, integration options, and technical constraints.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and platform architects to assess integration approaches, including authoring-platform-to-source-control synchronization and repository access models for external collaborators.
• Assess scalability, performance, and architectural implications when evaluating product and technology options.
• Stay informed about evolving research-collaboration technologies and adjust product roadmaps as appropriate.

Technical Leadership and Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner with DevSecOps engineering teams, platform leads, business analysts, and architects to validate feasibility and support technology decisions.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
• Communicate technical constraints, risks, tradeoffs, and delivery timelines in clear, accessible language.
• Translate business priorities and external-collaborator requirements into actionable technical direction.
• Support planning, prioritization, and decision-making across multiple stakeholders.

Process and Delivery Support

• Apply project management fundamentals, process mapping, organization, and requirements management practices.
• Maintain decision logs, meeting minutes, open questions, and documentation of requirement changes.
• Support product planning, roadmap reviews, and delivery coordination.
• Ensure product requirements remain aligned with business objectives and technical implementation capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in product ownership, technical business analysis, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience defining product vision, developing roadmaps, and translating stakeholder needs into technical specifications and user stories.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders, senior leadership, business analysts, engineers, and architects.
• Ability to assess technical feasibility and contribute to informed technology and integration decisions.
• Working knowledge of source-control and developer-collaboration platforms such as GitHub.
• Familiarity with technical authoring and research-collaboration platforms such as Overleaf, as well as file-collaboration and research-sharing platforms.
• Strong understanding of requirements traceability, prioritization, and product delivery processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholders and workstreams.

U.S. citizenship is required.

Ability to work onsite in Washington, DC and attend an in-person interview.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), or equivalent certification.
• Experience supporting research collaboration, academic partnerships, or external-stakeholder initiatives.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Previous federal government experience.
• Experience working in DevSecOps, platform engineering, or developer-tooling environments.