Senior Product Strategist, Product Owner Coach

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with project leadership, client leadership, and product teams to create product strategies, roadmaps, implementation plans, and decision-making frameworks.

• Drive initiatives that enhance the discoverability, accessibility, usability, and overall value of digital products, research resources, and information services.

• Foster collaboration among stakeholders, subject matter experts, technical teams, product owners, and program leadership.

• Assist in the adoption and advancement of product ownership practices across various products and services.

• Create and sustain product management and product owner toolkits, policies, procedures, templates, governance models, metrics guidance, and documentation.

• Mentor product owners and teams on product ownership, Agile and Scrum methodologies, backlog management, prioritization, roadmap development, and stakeholder engagement.

• Offer practical support in agile leadership, evaluation planning, knowledge management, and team operating rhythms.

• Establish product objectives, success metrics, KPIs, indicators, and evaluation methodologies.

• Design qualitative and quantitative evaluation frameworks to assess effectiveness, adoption, user value, impact, and return on investment.

• Examine user, stakeholder, operational, and performance data to provide actionable recommendations.

• Assist with product reviews, performance reporting, management briefings, and strategic planning.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Public Administration, Information Science, Library and Information Science, Health Informatics, Data Science, Program Management, STEM, or a related field.

• Over 7 years of experience in product strategy, product management, product ownership, digital transformation, program management, evaluation, or organizational change initiatives.

• More than 5 years of experience supporting product owners utilizing Agile, Scrum, Lean, Design Thinking, Human-Centered Design, or Product Management frameworks.

• At least 3 years of experience in converting organizational priorities, user requirements, and stakeholder feedback into product strategies and implementation plans.

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in facilitation, coaching, communication, problem-solving, and consensus-building.

• Three or more years of experience in establishing product metrics, KPIs, indicators, evaluation objectives, and reporting frameworks.

• Capability to facilitate collaboration among technical, scientific, operational, and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience working with federal government, healthcare, biomedical research, scientific, library, or information management organizations.

• Familiarity with complex information systems, research data platforms, digital libraries, metadata systems, content ecosystems, or public-facing digital services.

• Preferred certifications include CSPO, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, PMI-ACP, PMP, or Prosci Change Management.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Reasonable accommodations for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs.

• Confidential accommodation support.

• Benefits information provided under the Transparency in Benefits Coverage Act.