Assistant Product Owner, CCA Mission Autonomy (Platform Integration) (R5849)

Telemetry Today LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI in the Washington, DC area seeks an Assistant Product Owner (APO) to support mission autonomy development for the USAF Collaborative Combat Aircraft program. The APO owns the day-to-day health of the Shoal 1 product backlog in Jira and Confluence, aligning customer priorities, epics, interfaces, dependencies and milestones so the team can act with a clear, shared view.

Reporting to the Product Owner/Manager, the APO collaborates with the Shoal Lead and four Feature Crew Leads to keep

Job description

The Assistant Product Owner (APO) supports Shield AI's delivery of mission autonomy (MA) to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program — the first time that USAF has decoupled, for procurement purposes, MA from the airframe as a standalone capability. In this context, the ‘product’ is the Autonomy Implementation package, including Mission Autonomy itself, the Human Machine Interface (HMI) software, A-GRA compliance, mission systems, training, cybersecurity, and the full suite of implementation/installation software.

Shield AI’s CCA programs adopt an agile framework and are organized as a leadership tier overseeing multiple shoals (from platform integration to autonomy capabilities), each with multiple feature crews. In the first instance, the APO will support the Platform Integration and Support shoal (Shoal 1), which is responsible for integrating MA with multiple platforms and with the operator interface. The APO will work in collaboration with the Shoal Lead, Systems Engineering Lead, and four Feature Crew Leads and report directly to the Product Owner/Manager, who is part of the program leadership team. The APO owns the day-to-day health of the Shoal 1 product backlog in Jira (and Confluence), and is expected to maintain an integrated picture of how customer priorities, epics, interfaces, dependencies, and milestones relate, and to make ‘product’ legible and accessible to the broader team.