Product Owner - Defense - (Maritime Technology & Intelligence)

About Us:

Pole Star Defense is a leading provider of maritime domain awareness, maritime security, and fisheries monitoring systems to the government sector. Since 1998, we have pushed the limits of innovation, mitigating growing threats to ships, supply chains, cargo, territorial waters and, most importantly, safety of lives at sea and beyond. Today, we continue to develop and implement pioneering intelligence technologies to protect customer vessels, people, maritime domain, and reputation.

The Opportunity:
Pole Star Defense is looking for a versatile Product Owner to serve as a facilitator and bridge between the customer and development team. The ideal candidate will be highly effective in communicating and interfacing with all levels of staff and clientele and will understand structured project management (left to right). This person will be efficient in creating and implementing processes to execute work quickly. They will help build a productive environment where team members "own" the product and enjoy working on it.

Key Responsibilities:

• Uses an agile mindset, values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Coaches agile Scrum Teams around timeline and deliverable expectations.
• Coaches the organization on agile mindset and value principles on how to apply those to value delivery workflows.
• Coordinates sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups to deliver defined sprint backlog in relation to customer priorities.
• Coordinates customer priorities to handle new and ongoing requests to build a robust product backlog for delivery execution.
• Manages stakeholder expectations and tracks risks and benefits.
• Creates actionable solution output reports from the agile process that show executed value against planned effort.
• Facilitates internal and external communication around built artifacts to hold teams accountable to an agreed roadmap.

Required Skills:

• A thorough understanding of Agile project management methodologies
• Minimum 3-5 years' experience as Scrum Master, Product Owner or in a similar role
• Excellent analytical, logical, and organizational skills
• Problem solving and conflict-resolution ability
• Knowledge of Agile Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
• Experience working with DHS or DoD

Preferred Skills (Not Mandatory):

• Project Management Certification(s) such as PMP, CAPM or equivalent

Education/Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience
• Certified Scrum Master and/or Certified Product Owner

Work Arrangement:

This is a hybrid role, where you would be working from our offices in St Pete 3 days per week.

Travel Requirements:

• Up to 10% travel may be required.

• Salary $104,000 - $132,500 per annum (DOE)
• Hybrid/Flexible working.

• Medical insurance (fully covered by the company).
• Vision and dental insurance for employees and dependents.
• Life insurance (company funded to 2x salary).
• Discretionary bonus scheme.
• Employee assistance program.
• 20 days annual leave (with buy/sell options).
• Up to 5% 401K matching.
• Gym membership subsidy.
• Volunteer Day PTO.
• Refer-a-friend recruitment bonus.
• Unlimited learning and development opportunities.