Product Owner - Infrastructure

The Judge Group - Woodbridge Township, NJ

Full-time

Woodbridge Township, NJ

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

Our client is currently seeking a Product Owner to play a crucial role in developing, evolving, and communicating the product area vision, priorities, and strategy. This position involves managing risk and ensuring compliance with regulatory and policy standards. The Product Owner will establish, communicate, and monitor product area goals and performance indicators, ensuring alignment with the overall product strategy. A key aspect of this role is to identify and build relationships with key partners and stakeholders, effectively communicating the product area vision, strategies, and priorities while soliciting and incorporating feedback from these groups. The Product Owner will facilitate frequent collaboration between customers, stakeholders, and teams throughout the product lifecycle. This includes engaging in industry, technology, and customer ecosystem research and discovery to incorporate and prioritize key findings into the product area backlog. The individual will actively own the prioritization of a clearly understood product area backlog that aligns with the product area vision and goals. Additionally, the Product Owner will identify and resolve sequencing and prioritization conflicts across products and product areas, inspiring and guiding high-performing, cross-functional teams. This role requires consistent and active presence in communication with product leadership and product area team members. The Product Owner will perform a crucial role in transforming teams into high-performing agile teams and delivering enterprise-wide value as the organization transitions to a strategic secure network platform of the future. Collaboration with product managers, technical leaders, and business leaders is essential to create meaningful customer value with current and emerging connectivity and cryptographic services. The Product Owner will also work closely with lead Agilists to transform the team into a model state for product and portfolio management. Strong risk and dependency management skills are necessary to coordinate large complex initiatives across multiple Agile and non-agile teams. The individual must leverage excellent verbal, written, relationship, and influencing skills across all levels of the organization to build consensus and enthusiasm for prioritizing product delivery against the overall product strategy. Comfort with technical complexity, ambiguity, and facilitating discussions to explore the best possible solutions is also required.

Responsibilities

• Develop, evolve, and communicate the product area vision, priorities, and strategy while managing risk and ensuring regulatory and policy compliance.
• Establish, communicate, and monitor product area goals and performance indicators.
• Identify and build relationships with key partners and stakeholders to communicate product area vision, strategies, and priorities while soliciting and incorporating feedback.
• Facilitate frequent collaboration between customers, stakeholders, and teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Engage in industry, technology, and customer ecosystem research and discovery to incorporate and prioritize key findings into the product area backlog.
• Actively own the prioritization of a clearly understood product area backlog aligned to product area vision and goals.
• Identify and resolve sequencing and prioritization conflicts across products and product areas.
• Inspire and guide high-performing, cross-functional teams.
• Be consistently and actively present and in cadenced communication with product leadership and product area team members.
• Work closely with product managers, technical leaders, and business leaders to create meaningful customer value with current and emerging connectivity and cryptographic services.
• Work closely with lead Agilists to transform the team into a model state for product and portfolio management.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product owner experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• Experience with web proxy servers, firewalls, microsegmentation, remote access, zero trust network access, and web application firewalls.
• Experience with Agile practices and frameworks (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, etc.) and workflow and collaboration tools, such as Confluence, Jira and Jira Align.
• Experience with traditional project management practices (e.g., Waterfall) and tools, such as Microsoft Project.

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ years of experience leading large scale, very complex product portfolios with broad scope and impact across large organizations.
• Experience transitioning teams to agile product and portfolio management.
• Experience building next generation data center network security solutions and scale migration from legacy to the best-in-class data center environment.
• Experience with application delivery services including web application firewalls and web proxy.
• Experience with cloud technologies enabling shift from on-premise infrastructure.
• Experience with network security infrastructure automation.