ARES is seeking an Product Owner Applications, and Platform Services.
The Product Owner Applications, and Platform Services will serve as the Product Owner within the Custom Web, Agile Release Train (ART) throughout all stages of the product life cycle; Introduction, Growth, Maturity, and Decline.
Working closely with Product Management, collaborate with business owners, customers, product owners, and others steering the ART, ensuring business value, and aligning outcomes.
Translate customer requirements into solutions measured as business outcomes.
Provide continuous refinement of the product vision and communicate to the ART.
Revise roadmaps as needed based on product strategy.
Prioritize ART backlog, feature acceptance, participate in ART events such as PI planning, Inspect and Adapt activities, and demonstrations.
Remote, hybrid, and onsite positions the employee bears travel costs to nearest NASA Center for badging and issue of NASA IT equipment.
Required Qualifications: Provide outstanding communication to Product Management, customers, stakeholders, and all other members of the ART.
Extremely organized with excellent time-management skills.
Highly motivated and able to shift gears rapidly and frequently as needed or as dictated by the customer.
Must be process oriented and able to adhere to defined procedural guidance.
Must have initiative and ability to drive projects to success and prioritize multiple high-visibility tasks.
Able to tailor technical communications, both verbally and written to audiences possessing a varying degree of IT experience and knowledge.
Must work well both independently and with various stakeholders from other NASA Programs/Organizations including contractors from eMITS and other contracts.
Minimum Requirements: Certified SAFe Practitioner.
Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager.
Familiarity with System Applications and Products (SAP).
3-5 years of experience serving in the Product Manager or a Product Manager support role.
Familiarity with Power Automate tools, Jira, PI Planning.io, Mural, and Jira Align.
Very experienced with advanced utilization of various Microsoft applications such as Teams, SharePoint, Microsoft 365.
Preferred Qualifications: Enterprise Architecture Certification Experience with The Open Group's ArchiMate Framework Experience with ArchiMate Modeling Tool Proficient in Microsoft Office ( Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Teams, One Note, One Drive, Sharepoint, and Box Previous Experience with NASA Experience using GitHub Education and Relevant Work Experience: BA/BS degree and 10 years relevant experience in Product Management.
Previous experience performing product management across multiple teams within the Agile Release Train (ART).
Minimum 5 years' experience utilizing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
ARES Benefits: ARES offers a competitive compensation and benefit package.
Full time employees may participate in: Medical Insurance Dental Insurance Vision Insurance HSA/FSA Accounts Life & Disability Insurance Critical Illness & Accident Insurance 401(k) Plan ESOP Paid Time Off & Holidays ARES is an EEO/AA/Disability/Vets Employer and complies with E-Verify.
ARES shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a).
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