Product Owner
SynMax
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Washington DC • District of Columbia • Washington • United States
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About the role
- Requirements Definition & Feature Specification: Translate strategic roadmap items into detailed, implementable product requirements that engineering can build from.
- Sprint-Level Product Decisions: Make the continuous stream of product decisions that arise during development.
- Backlog Ownership & Sprint Coordination: Own the content and readiness of the development backlog, and represent product in delivery processes.
- Domain Expertise & Customer Understanding: Maintain deep enough understanding of the product, its users, and the domain to make high-quality product decisions at feature and sprint level.
- Stakeholder Communication (Delivery-Focused): Keep relevant stakeholders informed about what is being delivered, what has changed, and what the implications are.
Requirements
- Requirements Definition & Feature Specification
- Sprint-Level Product Decisions
- Backlog Ownership & Sprint Coordination
- Domain Expertise & Customer Understanding
- Stakeholder Communication (Delivery-Focused)
Benefits
- Demonstrated experience working closely with engineering teams in a sprint-based delivery
- Strong track record of writing detailed, unambiguous product requirements that engineering can act on
- Comfortable making trade-off decisions under constraint and articulating the impact clearly
- Direct, precise communication with technical teams — able to give fast, confident answers to product questions
- Experience with customer-facing software products where user understanding directly shaped product decisions
- Eligibility to work with US government customers and, where required, to obtain relevant security clearances — US citizenship or appropriate clearance eligibility is expected
- Familiarity with the US defence, intelligence, or federal government market — understanding how these customers procure, operate, and adopt software
- Experience working with government programme offices, defence end-users, or similar stakeholders
- Domain familiarity with maritime, geospatial intelligence, or related domains
- Experience operating across distributed or cross-timezone teams
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Requirements DefinitionFeature SpecificationBacklog OwnershipSprint CoordinationProduct Decisions
Soft Skills
Stakeholder CommunicationCustomer Understanding