Senior Product Owner - Onsite - Washington, DC
Senior Technical Product Owner defining the product vision, roadmap, and requirements for a research-collaboration tooling initiative at the Federal Reserve, working onsite 5 days/week in Washington, DC. Needs 10+ years in product ownership/business analysis plus platform knowledge of GitHub, Overleaf, and file-collaboration tools.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Falls Church, VA, US
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent experience
- 10+ years in product ownership, technical business analysis, or a related role, ideally in platform/tooling/developer-collaboration context
- Proven track record defining product vision and translating business/stakeholder needs into technical specifications and user stories
- Experience working directly with business analysts, senior leadership, and engineers/architects to validate feasibility and make technology decisions
- Working knowledge of source-control/developer-collaboration platforms (e.g., GitHub), technical authoring platforms (e.g., Overleaf), and file-collaboration/research-sharing platforms
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholders
- Onsite 5 days a week in Washington, DC
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor)
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe POPM, or equivalent
- Experience supporting a research-collaboration, academic-partnership, or external-stakeholder engagement effort
- Familiarity with Agile delivery practices (Scrum/Kanban)
- Federal government experience
- Experience in a DevSecOps or platform engineering environment
Full description
Senior Product Owner - Onsite - Washington, DC
About us
Creative Information Technology Inc (CITI) is an esteemed IT enterprise renowned for its exceptional customer service and innovation. We serve both government and commercial sectors, offering a range of solutions such as Healthcare IT, Human Services, Identity Credentialing, Cloud Computing, and Big Data Analytics. With clients in the US and abroad, we hold key contract vehicles including GSA IT Schedule 70, NIH CIO-SP3, GSA Alliant, and DHS-Eagle II.
Join us in driving growth and seizing new business opportunities.
Role and Responsibilities
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Systems is looking for a seasoned Product Owner. The position requires working on-site 5 days a week in Washington, DC
The Senior Product Owner (specifically Technical Product Owner) will define product vision and priorities for a research-collaboration tooling initiative, translating business and research collaboration needs into clear technical requirements and an actionable roadmap. This position partners closely with DevSecOps engineering and platform leads to keep this initiative's roadmap aligned with broader platform priorities. The ideal candidate is both product-ownership fluent and technically literate, with enough platform-level knowledge of source-control, technical authoring, and file-collaboration tools to evaluate feasibility, ask informed questions of technical SMEs, and make informed technology decisions grounded in what the underlying platforms can do
Product Vision & Requirements Definition
- Define product vision and priorities for research-collaboration tooling and technologies, elicited and validated directly with business stakeholders, architects, and technical SMEs.
- Convert business and research-collaboration needs into clear, actionable technical specifications and user stories.
- Prioritize features and enhancements based on both business value and technical feasibility.
- Maintain requirements traceability from business need through to technical delivery.
Platform & Technical Awareness
- Maintain working knowledge of the platforms relevant to external research collaboration – source-control/developer platforms, technical authoring and research-collaboration platforms, and file-collaboration/research-sharing platforms, sufficient to assess integration options and flag technical constraints early.
- Partner with engineering and platform architects to evaluate feasibility and integration approaches (e.g., authoring-platform-to-source-control sync, repository/access models for external collaborators) before decisions are finalized.
- Stay current on the research-collaboration tooling landscape as it evolves and re-scope the roadmap accordingly.