Product Delivery Owner

Product Delivery Owner

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a detail oriented, customer-focused, and motivated Product Delivery Owner with strong communication skills that is interested in becoming part of our team. You’ll be part of an agile delivery team, focused on providing high value features to our customers as they modernize both their processes and the IT implementation to support them. The individual will serve as the primary point of contact for the team, working closely with the government Product Owner and the larger integrated project team. Roles and responsibilities include:

Client Management:

• Guide project meetings and other client engagements to meet customer expectations
• Participate and lead customer-facing communication, reporting on sprint progress, burn down, velocity, and story points
• Prepare and deliver frequent updates, maintaining positive customer relationships and ensuring a positive customer journey
• Prepare status updates with key milestones and deliverables, next steps, risks, and project timeline
• Manage timeline and scope ensuring customer expectations are met
• Communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully and resolve or escalate issues in a timely fashion
• Understand and validates the details of deliverables as provided by project resources

Product Management:

• Develop product roadmap with external stakeholders
• Manage product development using agile best practices
• Oversee analysis and documentation of customer’s business requirements and processes
• Oversee planning and design of business processes; assist in formulating recommendations to improve and support business activities.
• Assist in the research and assessment of business goals, objectives and needs to align information technology solutions with business initiatives
• Participate in testing activities such as functional testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).

Team/Agile Participation:

• Work with the implementation team to develop releases plans and ensure product backlogs are well-groomed, prioritized and visible to all the stakeholders
• Assist team to become self-organizing and self-managing to achieve its goals
• Ensure the team’s “definition of done” is well defined on the story, sprint, and release levels
• Be part of a continuous improvement mindset and recommend adjustments to established delivery practices
• Participate in Scrum meetings to represent Product Owner and ensure cross-team collaboration and coordination of release plans
• Communicate effectively with large and small project teams consisting of both technical and non-technical project stakeholders to set and manage client expectations and timelines throughout the project
• Provide transparency to senior leadership and work with design, development, information security, and other product management teams

What You’ll Need

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Experience managing projects with multiple key stakeholders
• Experience managing multi-system projects and self-organized, cross-functional project teams in a matrixed environment
• Experience working in a scrum-agile environment
• Familiar with Agile values, principles, processes, and methods such as iterative and incremental development, burn down, continuous integration, test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, code refactoring, pair programming, and/or Scrum ceremonies
• Excellent power point and presentation skills

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge of JIRA
• PMP certification or Second level Scrum Master certification (CSP, SAFe Agilist, SAFe Practitioner)
• 3+ years agile team facilitation experience (e.g. Scrum Master, Agile Facilitator etc.)

Attribute for Success:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Energetic, goal oriented, proactive, innovative, hardworking, and patient

● Location: Could be remote
●US Citizenship Required

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
● 401K with company match
● Comprehensive health and wellness packages
● Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
● Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
● Cutting-edge technology you can learn from