Senior Product Owner - Onsite - Washington, DC

Creative Information Technology, Inc.; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Information Technology Inc (CITI) seeks an experienced Senior Product Owner for an onsite role in Washington, DC. You will define the product vision for a research-collaboration tooling initiative and translate business needs into actionable technical specifications and a validated roadmap.

You will partner with DevSecOps and platform leads to align the initiative with broader priorities, stay current on tooling trends, and guide decisions on architecture, feasibility, and integration

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of product ownership, technical business analysis, or related role.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision and priorities for research-collaboration tooling.
• Translate business needs into technical specifications and user stories.
• Prioritize features based on business value and feasibility.
• Maintain requirements traceability from business need to delivery.
• Translate constraints and timelines to non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Product ownership

Technical requirements

Cross-functional

Platform knowledge

Documentation

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder mgmt

Source-control

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitHub

Overleaf

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Senior Product Owner - Onsite - Washington, DC

Contract Falls Church, VA, US

2 days ago Requisition ID: 1906

Senior Product Owner - Onsite - Washington, DC

About us

Creative Information Technology Inc (CITI) is an esteemed IT enterprise renowned for its exceptional customer service and innovation. We serve both government and commercial sectors, offering a range of solutions such as Healthcare IT, Human Services, Identity Credentialing, Cloud Computing, and Big Data Analytics. With clients in the US and abroad, we hold key contract vehicles including GSA IT Schedule 70, NIH CIO-SP3, GSA Alliant, and DHS-Eagle II.

Join us in driving growth and seizing new business opportunities.

Role and Responsibilities

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Systems is looking for a seasoned Product Owner. The position requires working on-site 5 days a week in Washington, DC

The Senior Product Owner (specifically Technical Product Owner) will define product vision and priorities for a research-collaboration tooling initiative, translating business and research collaboration needs into clear technical requirements and an actionable roadmap. This position partners closely with DevSecOps engineering and platform leads to keep this initiative's roadmap aligned with broader platform priorities. The ideal candidate is both product-ownership fluent and technically literate, with enough platform-level knowledge of source-control, technical authoring, and file-collaboration tools to evaluate feasibility, ask informed questions of technical SMEs, and make informed technology decisions grounded in what the underlying platforms can do

Product Vision & Requirements Definition

• Define product vision and priorities for research-collaboration tooling and technologies, elicited and validated directly with business stakeholders, architects, and technical SMEs.
• Convert business and research-collaboration needs into clear, actionable technical specifications and user stories.
• Prioritize features and enhancements based on both business value and technical feasibility.
• Maintain requirements traceability from business need through to technical delivery.

Platform & Technical Awareness

• Maintain working knowledge of the platforms relevant to external research collaboration – source-control/developer platforms, technical authoring and research-collaboration platforms, and file-collaboration/research-sharing platforms, sufficient to assess integration options and flag technical constraints early.
• Partner with engineering and platform architects to evaluate feasibility and integration approaches (e.g., authoring-platform-to-source-control sync, repository/access models for external collaborators) before decisions are finalized.
• Stay current on the research-collaboration tooling landscape as it evolves and re-scope the roadmap accordingly.

Technical Leadership

• Evaluate architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs with engineering and platform architects.
• Assess scalability and performance implications of product and tooling choices.
• Make informed decisions on technology stack and integration approaches (e.g., authoring-platform-to-source-control sync, repository/access models for external collaborators).

Cross-Functional Communication

• Serve as the primary translator between business stakeholders and DevSecOps engineering and platform leads.
• Communicate technical constraints, tradeoffs, and timelines to non-technical stakeholders in plain language.
• Communicate business priorities and external-collaborator needs to the engineering teams in actionable terms.

Process & Delivery Support

• Apply fundamentals of project management, organization, and process mapping to keep product and requirements work on track.
• Maintain clear documentation of decisions, open questions, and requirement changes (e.g., meeting minutes, decision logs).
• Support planning and prioritization discussions with program leadership.
• A product vision, prioritized roadmap, and technical specifications for research collaboration tooling, traceable from business need through technical delivery.
• Feasibility and integration-approach assessments for research-collaboration platform initiatives, guided by insight from business analysts and economists and developed jointly with engineering and platform architects.
• Decision logs, meeting minutes, and other process documentation supporting the product workstream.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in product ownership, technical business analysis, or a related role, ideally in a platform, tooling, or developer-collaboration context.
• Proven track record defining product vision and translating business/stakeholder needs into technical specifications and user stories.
• Experience working directly with business analysts, senior leadership, and engineers or architects to validate feasibility and make technology decisions.
• Working knowledge of source-control/developer-collaboration platforms (e.g., GitHub), technical authoring and research collaboration platforms (e.g., Overleaf), and filecollaboration/ research-sharing platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) preferred.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholders.

Preferred Qualification

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO),
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), or equivalent.
• Experience supporting a research-collaboration, academic-partnership, or externalstakeholder
• Familiarity with Agile delivery practices (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience in a DevSecOps or platform engineering environment.