AI Product Owner

The role is for an AI Product Owner responsible for leading the development and delivery of AI-enabled software products in a SAFe Agile environment, focusing on mission-critical, secure, and scalable solutions.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $98,000.00-$163,000.00/year

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the product vision, roadmap, and priorities for AI software products aligned to mission and business objectives.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify opportunities where AI capabilities can improve operational efficiency, user experience, decision support, and mission outcomes.
• Translate strategic goals into product features, epics, and user stories that can be executed in Agile delivery cycles.
• Ensure that AI product investments are aligned to user needs, business value, technical feasibility, and organizational priorities.
• Own and manage the product backlog for one or more Agile teams delivering AI-enabled software products.
• Write clear and actionable features, user stories, and acceptance criteria that support effective sprint planning and delivery.
• Prioritize backlog items based on business value, dependencies, risk, technical considerations, and stakeholder needs.
• Support PI Planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, demos, and retrospectives in alignment with SAFe Agile practices.
• Work closely with Scrum Masters, Product Managers, and technical leads to ensure delivery execution remains aligned with roadmap objectives.
• Define AI use cases and product requirements for capabilities such as intelligent search, summarization, document understanding, prediction, recommendation, conversational experiences, decision support, and workflow automation.
• Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to ensure requirements are actionable, testable, and feasible within architecture and delivery constraints.
• Help shape MVPs and phased releases for AI products, balancing speed to value with quality, trust, and maintainability.
• Ensure that AI capabilities are embedded into operational workflows in ways that are practical, usable, and measurable.
• Partner with security, compliance, legal, and governance stakeholders to ensure AI products are developed and operated in accordance with organizational policies and risk controls.
• Support product requirements related to transparency, explainability, human-in-the-loop review, data usage constraints, auditability, and model governance.
• Ensure AI features are designed with appropriate controls for environments that may include PII, PHI, CUI, or other sensitive data.
• Promote responsible AI practices across the product lifecycle, from ideation through deployment and operational monitoring.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and delivery teams for AI product initiatives.
• Facilitate requirement gathering, user workshops, feedback sessions, and prioritization discussions across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build alignment across leadership, product, engineering, analytics, design, and operations teams to support successful product adoption.
• Communicate product progress, risks, tradeoffs, dependencies, and recommendations clearly and effectively.
• Define and track product success metrics, KPIs, adoption indicators, and value realization measures for AI product capabilities.
• Use user feedback, operational insights, analytics, and delivery outcomes to inform backlog prioritization and roadmap updates.
• Support release planning and go-to-production readiness, including user acceptance considerations, training needs, and change management inputs.
• Continuously refine product direction based on evolving business needs, user behavior, and lessons learned from production usage.

Requirements

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum SIX (6) years of experience in Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or related Agile delivery roles supporting enterprise software products.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a Product Owner in a SAFe Agile environment, including backlog ownership, story writing, prioritization, PI Planning participation, and cross-team coordination.
• Experience working on AI, advanced analytics, machine learning, intelligent automation, or data-driven software products.
• Strong ability to translate business needs into product requirements, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including engineering, data science, architecture, UX/design, security, and operations.
• Strong understanding of Agile product delivery practices, product lifecycle management, and iterative software development.
• Ability to evaluate product tradeoffs across business value, usability, technical feasibility, risk, and compliance considerations.

Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Care.com annual membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus