Job description
Overview:
LMI is seeking a Product Manager to provide strategic planning and product management leadership for the Agile Release Training supporting the development of the Army Training Information System.
Responsibilities:
- Member of Agile Release Train leadership responsible for developing product vision and roadmap and working with Technical Leadership and product teams to deliver value against defined roadmap.
- Owns the program-level product vision and roadmap, working with stakeholders to develop epics and features to define team-level product roadmaps and backlogs.
- Prepares for and participates in Program Increment planning and builds, edits, and maintains the program’s product backlog during program increment execution.
- Ensures that the Agile Release Train delivers the business value committed to within a Program Increment.
- Works with product teams to prepare and deliver integrated system demonstrations for Program Leadership at the conclusion of the Program Increment.
- Works with the Release Train Engineer to maintain proper flow of backlog items to implementation and deployment.
- Works with UX and Design Leads to ensure consistent and compliant UX/UI standards are implemented across the product.
- Leads and coaches individual Product Owners from a portfolio of product teams to ensure delivery of business value in line with product vision
- Works with Technical Leadership and Release Management to ensure continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) of working software.
- Represents the customer with the ability to prioritize tradeoffs, clarify requirements, and work to drive features to acceptance throughout the agile software development life cycle.
- Works directly with internal and external stakeholders, including senior staff and managers, and with focused product development teams to ensure successful translation of requirements into high-quality product deliverables.
- Manages register of stakeholders, including end users, legacy system business owners, functional representatives/SMEs, and technical partners
Percentage of Travel Required: 15%
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years’ experience in product management, product ownership, system engineering, information technology (IT) management, business analysis, computer science, or other related fields, preferably in large DOD programs.
- Certified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Product Owner/Product Manager (PO/PM).
- Industry standard human centered design (HCD) certification.
- Ability to identify, define, analyze, prioritize, and refine requirements, communicating milestones and visions to the Agile Release Train.
- Experience developing products at an enterprise scale, with large and complex stakeholder networks and interfaces with external systems.
- Ability to work with stakeholders to understand complex business requirements and develop a product vision and roadmap to deliver incremental business value.
- Ability to define and deploy, in coordination with Release Management, minimally viable products (MVPs) and minimally viable capability releases (MVCRs) in line with DODI 5000.87.
- Experience leading large-scale user experience (UX) research efforts and incorporating UX and HCD principles into product vision, roadmap, and backlog.
- Experience bringing web application products to production, through continuous delivery, and working with strategic communications and change management personnel to drive adoption.
- Experience leading and coaching a team of Product Owners across a portfolio of teams to ensure delivery of business value aligned to product vision.
- Experience creating detailed reports and presentations to senior executives and key stakeholders.
- Experience developing products in an agile framework and leveraging an agile project management tool.
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Education/Experience: Minimum 3–10 years of directly related experience with a Bachelors’ Degree in business, computer science, management information systems, engineering, or a related field preferred
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Clearance: Confidential/NAC (T1)
Additional Qualifications Preferred:
- Experience with and/or strong understanding of Army enterprise training systems.
- Experience with and/or strong understanding of Army cloud and software development ecosystem.
- Experience developing products using SAFe and incorporating various agile frameworks into SAFe (e.g., scrum, Kanban, LeanXP, etc.).
- Experience with agile project management and development in GitLab.
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