Product Owner with Security Clearance

Product Owner Clearance: Must be eligible for a US Security clearance (US Citizenship required)
Location: Herndon, VA (Hybrid) As a Finch AI Senior Product Owner, you join a dynamic and Agile team playing a pivotal role clearly articulating and delivering Finch AI product vision and strategy as defined by Finch AI business objectives. This person will manage the development backlog, draft user stories, and ensure alignment with the project roadmap. You will work with multiple stakeholders including sales, data scientists, engineers, QA and other teams to facilitate the seamless execution of AI initiatives. Responsibilities:
Serve as Product Owner on one or more scrum teams.
Work with the VP of Product to translate high level objectives into sprint plans and backlogs.
Work closely with product development and product stakeholders following an Agile product development methodology.
Prepare the product vision, stakeholders' understanding, expectations, strategy, product milestones, investor's expectations, product benefits and business model.
Create product roadmap, show how the features and the user stories fit into the product roadmap.
Get hands-on with the product in every stage of development.
Breaking product management's epics into user stories
Arranging and prioritizing sprints
Order and define user stories and features prioritizing highest business value.
Write user stories before refinement meeting: description, acceptance criteria.
Prepare designs, data and examples for each user story. Assign user stories to a release.
Share release schedule and impact of the next release.
Work with software engineering team to implement user stories.
Work closely with QA to provide testable acceptance criteria for each story.
Organize and maintain product backlog.
Evaluate progress at each stage of development.
Answer dev questions about the reasoning for user stories or tasks
Document and communicate release notes and functional specifications.
Effectively communicate with fellow technologists and other stakeholders.
Requirements:
2-4 years of demonstrated experience as a Product Owner, preferably in the tech AI/ML SaaS sector. Experience with machine learning concepts, frameworks, and tools.
Experience with defining stories and prioritizing team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components.
Experience with using Jira and Confluence.
Experience in Agile, including Scrum and Kanban.
Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle.
Preferred:
Experience delivering products to the DoD and IC community.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field ABOUT FINCH AI Finch AI is a fast-growing, fast-paced software development organization; our mission is to build new ways of interacting with information. We do that by leveraging game-changing intellectual property, cloud infrastructure expertise, and a staff that is second to none. Together, we build and support products that address complex, real-time data and analytics needs in the enterprise. Our teams are comprised of successful people that enjoy solving problems, engaging in substantive technical discussions and have passion for their work. We have very high expectations in terms of skill, motivation, self-organization and productivity. We look for people who excel working in groups, virtual and collocated, as well as those who are comfortable with fast paced agile development. Finch AI is an equal opportunity employer.