LMI seeks a skilled Product Development Lead

• Member of Agile Release Train leadership responsible for developing product vision and roadmap and working with Technical Leadership and product teams to deliver value against defined roadmap.
• Owns the program-level product vision and roadmap, working with stakeholders to develop epics and features to define team-level product roadmaps and backlogs.
• Prepares for and participates in Program Increment planning and builds, edits, and maintains the program’s product backlog during program increment execution.
• Ensures that the Agile Release Train delivers the business value committed to within a Program Increment.
• Works with product teams to prepare and deliver integrated system demonstrations for Program Leadership at the conclusion of the Program Increment.
• Works with the Release Train Engineer to maintain proper flow of backlog items to implementation and deployment.
• Works with UX and Design Leads to ensure consistent and compliant UI/UX standards are implemented across the product.
• Leads and coaches individual Product Owners from a portfolio of product teams to ensure delivery of business value in line with product vision
• Works with Technical Leadership and Release Management to ensure continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) of working software.
• Represents the customer with the ability to prioritize tradeoffs, clarify requirements, and work to drive features to acceptance throughout the agile software development life cycle.
• Works directly with internal and external stakeholders, including senior staff and managers, and with focused product development teams to ensure successful translation of requirements into high-quality product deliverables.
• Manages register of stakeholders, including end users, legacy system business owners, functional representatives/SMEs, and technical partners

Percentage of Travel Required: 15%

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years’ experience in product management, product ownership, system engineering, information technology (IT) management, business analysis, computer science, or other related fields, preferably in large DOD programs.
• Certified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Product Owner/Product Manager (PO/PM).
• Ability to identify, define, analyze, prioritize, and refine requirements, communicating milestones and visions to the Agile Release Train.
• Experience developing products at an enterprise scale, with large and complex stakeholder networks and interfaces with external systems.
• Ability to work with stakeholders to understand complex business requirements and develop a product vision and roadmap to deliver incremental business value.
• Ability to define and deploy, in coordination with Release Management, minimally viable products (MVPs) and minimally viable capability releases (MVCRs) in line with DODI 5000.87.
• Experience leading large-scale user experience (UX) research efforts and incorporating UX and HCD principles into product vision, roadmap, and backlog.
• Experience bringing web application products to production, through continuous delivery, and working with strategic communications and change management personnel to drive adoption.
• Experience leading and coaching a team of Product Owners across a portfolio of teams to ensure delivery of business value aligned to product vision.
• Experience creating detailed reports and presentations to senior executives and key stakeholders.
• Experience developing products in an agile framework and leveraging an agile project management tool.

• Education/Experience: Minimum 3–10 years of directly related experience with a Bachelors’ Degree in business, computer science, management information systems, engineering, or a related field preferred

• Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a US government Secret clearance required; active Secret clearance desired.

Additional Qualifications Preferred:

• Industry standard human centered design (HCD) certification.
• Experience with and/or strong understanding of Internet of Things technologies.
• Experience with and/or strong understanding of RFID.
• Experience with and/or strong understanding of cloud-based systems.
• Experience developing products using SAFe and incorporating various agile frameworks into SAFe (e.g., scrum, Kanban, LeanXP, etc.).
• Experience with agile project management and use of Atlassian tools