AI-First ART Product Manager (SAFe)

Leidos; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an ART Product Manager to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector, supporting the Leidos Common Automation Platform (L-CAP). You will lead an Agile Release Train of ~110 people, own the Program Backlog, define and prioritize Features, and serve as content authority for PI Planning, reporting to the Chief Product Manager.

The role requires SAFe experience, an AI-first mindset, and the ability to obtain a Public Trust.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of related experience or 10+ years with a Master’s degree.
• Product management experience in software-intensive organizations.
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) certification or equivalent Agile product management credential.
• Demonstrated experience owning a Program Backlog and serving as content authority for PI Planning in SAFe environments.
• Feature definition, prioritization, and decomposition for complex technical products at enterprise scale.
• Stakeholder management across executive, technical, and customer audiences with competing priorities.
• Experience translating strategic vision and roadmaps into executable feature delivery plans.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery mechanics including velocity, capacity planning, and dependency management.

Responsibilities

• Own the Program Backlog for the ART — define, prioritize, and sequence Features aligned to program vision and customer needs
• Serve as content authority for PI Planning — decide which Features enter each Program Increment based on strategic priorities and capacity
• Work with Product Owners to decompose Features into user stories, ensuring clarity, testability, and alignment with acceptance criteria
• Translate the program-level capability roadmap into ART-specific feature delivery plans with clear dependencies and milestones
• Define Feature acceptance criteria and validate fitness for purpose through demonstration and stakeholder review
• Manage ART-level stakeholders including customer representatives, business leadership, and engineering teams
• Coordinate with peer ART Product Managers and the Chief Product Manager on cross-ART feature dependencies and sequencing
• Drive feature prioritization using data-informed decision frameworks balancing customer value, technical feasibility, and risk
• Participate in Solution-level planning and coordinate ART contributions to program-level capabilities
• Maintain ART-level product metrics including feature throughput, acceptance rates, and value delivery indicators
• Sequence modernization feature delivery within the ART prioritizing capabilities that maximize operational mission value while managing transition risk
• Manage dependencies between legacy system decommissioning and modernized service activation within ART scope ensuring continuous operational capability
• Define ART-level modernization priorities based on operational need, technical readiness, and deployment constraints across distributed sites
• Coordinate with systems engineering and deployment teams to ensure feature delivery aligns with site activation schedules and operational readiness gates
• Champion an AI-first engineering culture by identifying and applying AI-assisted development capabilities, automation, and emerging software engineering practices that improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, and delivery.

Skills

Product management

SAFe POPM

Backlog ownership

PI Planning

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Job description

Leidos is seeking an ART Product Manager to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector, supporting the Leidos Common Automation Platform (L-CAP). You will lead an Agile Release Train of ~110 people, own the Program Backlog, define and prioritize Features, and serve as content authority for PI Planning, reporting to the Chief Product Manager.

The role requires SAFe experience, an AI-first mindset, and the ability to obtain a Public Trust.