Senior Product Owner & PO Coaching Lead

Sierra Nevada Corporation; Englewood (CO); Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Sierra Nevada Corporation is seeking a Product Owner within Portfolio Operations to coach new Product Owners as they adopt a modern product operating model. You'll own and prioritize backlogs, guide iteration priorities, and partner with Product Managers, Capability Owners, and delivery teams to accelerate team maturity and deliver measurable value across programs.

Travel up to 20% may be required as part of coordinating with diverse teams across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 10+ years of IT experience, with at least 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex IT projects.
• Strong background in IT infrastructure and operations.
• Extensive knowledge of service-oriented architecture, web, mobile, and cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the team backlog, ensuring clarity and alignment to defined outcomes
• Write high-quality user stories and acceptance criteria; coach new Product Owners in these practices
• Lead backlog refinement, demonstrating effective techniques for story slicing and readiness
• Manage high-level stakeholder relationships, ensuring clear communication and alignment with business objectives.
• Partner with new Product Owners to teach prioritization, tradeoff decision-making, and flow discipline
• Provide clarity to engineers and stakeholders throughout development
• Support predictable delivery by guiding teams in iteration planning and acceptance
• Coach new Product Owners in connecting backlog decisions to roadmap themes and enterprise capability needs
• Collaborate closely and facilitate alignment with Product Managers on feature readiness and cross-team dependencies
• Track team-level value delivery and model outcome-based thinking
• Maintain healthy team operating rhythms and promote adoption of modern product practices
• Demonstrate strong servant leadership and reinforce a culture of teamwork, transparency, and collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field

Tools

SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager

PMI-ACP

PfMP

Job description

Sierra Nevada Corporation is seeking a Product Owner within Portfolio Operations to coach new Product Owners as they adopt a modern product operating model. You'll own and prioritize backlogs, guide iteration priorities, and partner with Product Managers, Capability Owners, and delivery teams to accelerate team maturity and deliver measurable value across programs.

Travel up to 20% may be required as part of coordinating with diverse teams across the organization.