GEOINT Product Owner: User Engagement Leader

High Side Technology; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

High Side Technology seeks a Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Product Owner / User Engagement Lead to connect end users, stakeholders, engineers, and leadership. You will translate mission needs into development priorities and ensure alignment with real-world workflows.

The ideal candidate has 8–10 years in GEOINT product ownership, UCD/UX, requirements analysis, and Agile practices, with a TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 8–10 years in GEOINT product ownership or related roles.
• Experience gathering requirements from users and stakeholders.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum and UCD/UX methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with users, stakeholders, technical teams, and leadership, and advocate for end users throughout the product lifecycle.
• Partner with and provide guidance to engineers, architects, designers, analysts, and other stakeholders to deliver effective solutions.
• Translate user feedback and mission requirements into product requirements.
• Own and prioritize product backlogs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and feature requirements.
• Apply User-Centered Design (UCD) principles to improve usability and alignment with user workflows.
• Develop personas, workflows, use cases, wireframes, prototypes, and related artifacts as needed.
• Coordinate user testing and feedback cycles to validate designs and functionality.
• Define product priorities, release goals, and success measures.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Conduct interviews, workshops, demonstrations, feedback sessions, and usability assessments.
• Maintain product, research, workflow, and stakeholder documentation.
• Balance user needs, mission priorities, technical constraints, schedule, and resources.

Skills

GEOINT product ownership

User engagement

Requirements analysis

UCD / UX

Agile / Scrum

Communication

Problem solving

Translate requirements to direction

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Figma

Miro

iSpy

Job description

High Side Technology seeks a Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Product Owner / User Engagement Lead to connect end users, stakeholders, engineers, and leadership. You will translate mission needs into development priorities and ensure alignment with real-world workflows.

The ideal candidate has 8–10 years in GEOINT product ownership, UCD/UX, requirements analysis, and Agile practices, with a TS/SCI clearance.