PRODUCT OWNER - DIGITAL PLANT

Newport News Shipbuilding, A Division of HII; Newport News (VA); Sur place; USD 64 000 - 81 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, VA is seeking a Product Owner to join the Digital Plant team and drive ML solution development that creates business value. You will bridge stakeholders and technical teams, define product vision, manage backlog, and prioritize features to enable efficient deployment and lifecycle management of software products.

Operating within SAFe, you will align roadmaps with enterprise goals, coordinate across programs, and lead acceptance criteria for user

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 0 years of relevant exempt experience.
• NNS Apprentice School graduate.
• Navy Nuclear Power School (NNPS) graduate.
• Associate's Degree or other formal 2 year program and 2 years of relevant exempt experience or 4 years of relevant non-exempt experience.
• Military Paygrade E-5 or above military experience.
• High School/GED and 4 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant exempt experience.
• High School/GED and 8 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant non-exempt experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with minimum 0 years of professional experience.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business requirements.
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle, DevOps and ML Ops principles.

Responsabilités

• Defining and communicating product vision and roadmap for the application development team.
• Translating business requirements into actionable user stories and technical specifications.
• Managing and prioritizing the product backlog to maximize value delivery.
• Monitoring product performance and driving continuous improvement based on feedback and metrics.
• Expertise in product ownership across complex or multi team environments
• Ability to define product strategy, roadmap elements, and feature sequencing
• Skill in dependency management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder negotiation
• Experience aligning multiple teams or programs to shared objectives
• Strong analytics and decision making based on metrics like value, predictability, and quality
• Ability to influence leadership and drive cross team consensus

Connaissances

Strong understanding of Agile

Excellent communication

Stakeholder management

Translate technical concepts

Decision making based on metrics

Formation

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

NNS Apprentice School graduate

Navy Nuclear Power School graduate

Associate's Degree or 2-year program + 2 years exempt experience or 4 years non-exempt

High School/GED + 4 years manufacturing/shipbuilding/military experience (exempt)

High School/GED + 8 years manufacturing/shipbuilding/military experience (non-exempt)

Outils

Jira

Azure DevOps

ML Ops tooling

Description du poste

Req ID: 50607

Team: T56 AI and Digital Innovation

Entity: Newport News Shipbuilding

US Citizenship Required for this Position: Yes

Full-Time

Shift: 1st

Relocation: No relocation assistance available

Virtual/Telework Opportunity: No - Not eligible for telework

Travel Requirements: Yes, 10%-25% of the time

Clearance Required: No - Clearance Not Required to Start

Salary Range: $64,000.00 to $81,000.00

The anticipated salary range represents the estimated base pay for this role. Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors, and may vary from the posted range

Meet HII's Newport News Shipbuilding

With more than 25,000 employees – including third-, fourth- and even fifth-generation shipbuilders – HII's Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division is the largest industrial employer in Virginia. We're the sole designer, builder and refueler of U.S. Navy nuclear aircraft carriers and one of two providers of U.S. Navy nuclear submarines. Our diverse and innovative team of professionals ranges from skilled trades to project managers, engineers and software developers to solution architects, technical subject matter experts, and system users. We collaborate together at the forefront of technology, manufacturing, and integration of the most powerful and survivable naval ships in the world.

The Role

Responsible for the success of the product by maximizing the output of the development team within a scrum framework. Responsible for ordering backlog, clearly expressing the product backlog items, ordering the items to best achieve goals and optimize the value of the work the team performs. Lead collaboration, facilitate sprint activities, and create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements. Work closely with business stakeholders, product/project managers, and technical teams to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs to ensure full understanding of project scope, objectives, and requirements. Develop and adapt the product vision, writing new user stories, and specify acceptance of each user story. Bring members of the User Community together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, manage toolset or training improvements, discuss issues, and drive toward process standardization. Ensure the health and quality of specific processes and resulting products across the value stream.

We are seeking a Product Owner to join our Digital Plant team and drive the development and delivery of machine learning solutions that create business value. In this role, you will serve as the bridge between stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that ML Ops workflows align with strategic objectives. You will define product vision, manage the backlog, and prioritize features to enable efficient deployment and lifecycle management of software products.

The Product Owner provides product leadership for delivery teams, programs, or product areas within the IT division. This role defines roadmap objectives, sequences complex initiatives, manages cross team dependencies, and drives alignment across business and technical partners. Operating within a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment, the Product Owner partners with business leadership, product managers, delivery teams, platform engineers, and architects to ensure solutions meet enterprise goals and architectural direction. This role has significant influence on product strategy and ensures consistent value delivery at scale.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Defining and communicating product vision and roadmap for the application development team.
• Translating business requirements into actionable user stories and technical specifications.
• Managing and prioritizing the product backlog to maximize value delivery.
• Monitoring product performance and driving continuous improvement based on feedback and metrics.
• Expertise in product ownership across complex or multi team environments
• Ability to define product strategy, roadmap elements, and feature sequencing
• Skill in dependency management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder negotiation
• Experience aligning multiple teams or programs to shared objectives
• Strong analytics and decision making based on metrics like value, predictability, and quality
• Ability to influence leadership and drive cross team consensus

Must Have

Bachelor's Degree and 0 years of relevant exempt experience.

• NNS Apprentice School graduate
• Navy Nuclear Power School (NNPS) graduate
• Associate's Degree or other formal 2 year program and 2 years of relevant exempt experience or 4 years of relevant non-exempt experience
• Military Paygrade E-5 or above military experience
• High School/GED and 4 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant exempt experience
• High School/GED and 8 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant non-exempt experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with minimum 0 years of professional experience.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business requirements.
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle, DevOps and ML Ops principles.

Nice to Have

• Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to use data to inform decisions.
• Experience with backlog management tools (Jira, Azure DevOps).
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Why HII

We build the world's most powerful, survivable naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas, sky, land, space and cyber. HII's diverse workforce includes skilled tradespeople; artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) experts; engineers; technologists; scientists; logistics experts; and business administration professionals.

Recognized as one of America's top large company employers, we are a values and ethics driven organization that puts people's safety and well-being first. Regardless of your role or where you serve, at HII, you'll find a supportive and welcoming environment, competitive benefits, and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career.

Working at HII is more than a job - it's an opportunity to build a future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including:

• medical
• prescription drug
• dental and vision plan choices
• on-site health centers
• tele-medicine
• wellness resources
• employee assistance programs
• savings plan options (401K)
• financial education and planning tools
• life insurance
• tuition reimbursement
• employee discounts
• early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships
• and more

Some benefits may vary depending on your specific division or work location.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.

Do You Need Assistance?

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Reasonable accommodations are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.

Additionally, you may also call 1-844-849-8463 for assistance. Press #2 for Newport News Shipbuilding.