About the role

Role Overview

CORMAC is seeking a Product Owner to provide leadership and oversight for one or more product teams, guiding complex, cross-functional delivery across the full project lifecycle. You will help ensure deliverables align with program initiatives, roadmap priorities, and quality/security/accessibility requirements.

Responsibilities

Lead and govern Product Team goals, objectives, and timelines, including staff feedback and annual performance reviews.
Run and participate in Agile ceremonies as needed:
- Backlog Refinement
- Iteration Planning
- Daily Stand-ups
- Reviews
- Retrospectives
Own product backlog: develop, refine, and prioritize user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical enablers aligned with Definition of Ready and Definition of Done.
Plan and commit work with the Agile team during Program Increment (PI) and Iteration Planning.
Represent the team in PI Planning and coordinate cross-team dependencies.
Align delivery with Product Management and business priorities/roadmap.
Accept user stories as done based on acceptance criteria and quality standards.
Collaborate with System Architect and stakeholders to ensure technical feasibility and architectural alignment.
Ensure continuous validation through feedback loops to meet user and business needs.
Manage product plans and execution artifacts: schedules, risks, issue logs; proactively mitigate risks.
Identify and manage risks, assumptions, and dependencies across teams and releases; report mitigation strategies to Project Director and Product Manager.
Track team performance using KPIs.
Serve as primary point of contact for stakeholders, including demos of achievements and facilitation of status/decision meetings.
Coordinate work across analysts, developers, data scientists, and SMEs.
Oversee documentation, deliverable reviews, and QA processes.
Ensure compliance with federal and client data security and accessibility requirements.
Support continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
Manage budget and schedule for multi-stakeholder projects and coordinate with client staff/contractors.
Draft operational reports and liaise with stakeholders/contractors as needed.

Requirements

Ability to lead product teams through all project lifecycle phases on complex multi-stakeholder initiatives.
Experience collaborating with technical and business stakeholders to ensure feasibility, alignment, and delivery against acceptance criteria.
Ability to facilitate Agile ceremonies and participate/lead PI Planning.
Strong risk management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder communication skills.

Nice-to-haves (implied)

Experience working in environments with federal/client data security and accessibility requirements.
Familiarity with KPI-based delivery tracking and governance for product teams.
Experience coordinating across cross-functional roles including analysts, developers, data scientists, and SMEs.

About CORMAC

CORMAC is hiring a Product Owner to lead product teams delivering data-focused solutions for customers. The role supports program initiatives through cross-functional, multi-stakeholder delivery, with an emphasis on timely, secure, reliable, and accessible data for decision-making.