SENIOR PRODUCT OWNER - PORTFOLIO/PRODUCT DELIVERY MANAGER

Req ID: 48656  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: Yes - Occasional or hybrid telework available  Travel Requirements:  No  Clearance Required: No - Clearance Not Required to Start  ​Salary Range: $113,000.00 to $142,000.00   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. Want to be part of the team? Apply today! We look forward to meeting you.   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. The Product Owner provides senior level product leadership for capabilities spanning multiple 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: The product owner will act as a strategic partner, drive consistency, innovation, and maturity across NNS’s technical, digital, and operational excellence initiatives.  This role partners closely with many divisions across NNS and has experience working with the following teams: •    Data Scientists •    Digital Innovation and UX teams •    Artificial Intelligence (AI) •    IIOT/Digital Plant •    Data Warehouse •    Robotic Process Automation (RPA) The candidate should have extensive experience and knowledge of portfolio delivery management.  They will collaborate to establish product vision, identify new customer opportunities, ensure the solutions are valuable and successful,