Product Owner

Role Overview

CORMAC is hiring a Product Owner to provide leadership and oversight for one or more Product Teams delivering program initiatives. The role supports complex, multi-stakeholder efforts spanning the full project lifecycle, with a focus on delivering timely, secure, reliable, and accessible data for customer decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Provide product team leadership, governing goals, objectives, and timelines.
• Lead or participate in Agile ceremonies as needed:
  • Backlog Refinement
  • Iteration Planning
  • Daily stand-ups
  • Reviews
  • Retrospectives
• Develop, refine, and prioritize the product backlog, including:
  • User stories
  • Acceptance criteria
  • Technical enablers aligned to Definition of Ready/Done
• Plan and commit to work during Program Increment (PI) and iteration planning; represent the team in PI Planning and coordinate dependencies.
• Align delivery with product roadmap and business priorities by working with Product Management.
• Accept user stories as done against acceptance criteria and quality standards.
• Collaborate with System Architect and stakeholders to ensure technical feasibility and architectural alignment.
• Drive continuous feedback and validation to ensure user and business needs are met.
• Maintain product plans, schedules, risks, and issue logs; proactively mitigate risks.
• Identify/manage product risks, assumptions, and cross-team dependencies; report mitigation strategies to Project Director and Product Manager.
• Track team performance using KPIs.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for stakeholders, including demos of team achievements.
• Facilitate status briefings, decision sessions, and coordinate work across analysts, developers, data scientists, and SMEs.
• Oversee documentation, deliverable reviews, and QA processes.
• Ensure federal and client requirements for data security and accessibility compliance.
• Support continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
• Manage budgets and schedules for multi-stakeholder projects; coordinate with client staff and other contractors.
• Identify objectives/tasks, track and escalate risks/issues, and draft operational/plan reports for stakeholders.

Requirements

• Leadership experience supporting Product Team delivery across the full project lifecycle.
• Ability to run and support Agile execution including backlog, iteration planning, and PI Planning.
• Strong backlog ownership: writing/prioritizing user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical enablers.
• Cross-functional coordination skills across engineering, data, and subject matter experts.
• Experience ensuring technical feasibility and alignment with architecture and security/accessibility requirements.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in environments requiring secure and accessible data for decision-making.
• Familiarity with KPI-based delivery performance tracking.