Technical Product Owner

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of the strategy, development, and progression of digital products and solutions from the initial concept and prototype stage through to deployment, adoption, and growth.

• Create product visions, roadmaps, release plans, backlogs, and success metrics.

• Lead small, cross-functional technical teams within Sales Engineering.

• Convert customer requirements into epics, user stories, technical specifications, priorities, and acceptance criteria.

• Oversee sprint planning, delivery, and quality assurance of the product.

• Interact with federal customers, mission leaders, and end users to comprehend operational challenges, workflows, technical limitations, and modernization prospects.

• Recognize shared customer needs and market opportunities across DoD and civilian sectors.

• Differentiate reusable product features from customer-specific requirements.

• Direct technical architecture, system design, and integration approaches.

• Collaborate on enterprise platforms, cloud environments, data systems, APIs, and agency-specific applications.

• Formulate federal deployment strategies involving FedRAMP, DoD Impact Levels, Platform One, RMF/ATO requirements, security protocols, identity and access management, and data handling practices.

• Create business cases, define target customers, outline use cases, craft value propositions, establish pricing and packaging structures, formulate implementation strategies, and evaluate customer ROI.

• Work alongside sales, account teams, capture, delivery, platform teams, security, and leadership to devise solutions and transform demand into revenue.

• Lead product demonstrations, customer discovery sessions, technical discussions, and solution presentations.

• Set and track product performance metrics including adoption, satisfaction, delivery performance, reliability, operational efficiency, pipeline growth, revenue, and expansion.

• Analyze emerging technologies, market trends, and customer feedback to guide product investments and future solution development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in technical product management, product ownership, software development, technical program management, solution architecture, or a related role delivering software products and digital solutions.

• Demonstrated capability to manage the complete product lifecycle, from customer discovery and requirements gathering to technical delivery, deployment, adoption, and ongoing enhancement.

• Strong product judgment and deep customer empathy.

• Experience leading agile technical teams and managing product backlogs, roadmaps, releases, priorities, trade-offs, and stakeholder expectations.

• Commercial insight and experience supporting business development efforts, including defining value propositions, creating business cases, estimating ROI, leading demonstrations, and aiding in customer acquisition.

• Technical fluency sufficient to lead discussions on architecture, integration, security, and implementation.

• Familiarity with contemporary software development practices, cloud technologies, APIs, enterprise integrations, DevSecOps, and software delivery methodologies.

• Experience with federal software deployment and security requirements, including RMF, ATO processes, FedRAMP, DoD security requirements, Platform One, or similar accredited environments.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management abilities.

• Capacity to operate independently in fast-paced, ambiguous settings.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance is required; an active Secret or Top Secret clearance is preferred.

• Applicants must fulfill eligibility criteria for a U.S. Government security clearance.

• Only U.S. Citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

• LMI will only consider applicants who possess security clearances.

• Bonus: Experience in developing, launching, or commercializing software products for federal clients.

• Bonus: Background as a software engineer, systems engineer, solution architect, or technical lead.

• Bonus: Experience working with federal agencies, government mission operations, or complex enterprise environments.

• Bonus: Experience with user research, workflow mapping, human-centered design, product analytics, and customer discovery.

• Bonus: Experience in developing SaaS platforms, enterprise applications, workflow automation, low-code/no-code solutions, data platforms, or AI-enabled products.

• Bonus: Experience supporting technical sales, solution engineering, capture activities, proposals, and customer demonstrations.

• Bonus: Experience with cloud authorization, continuous ATO, DevSecOps, and deployment across DoD and civilian agency environments.

• Bonus: Experience transitioning prototypes, proofs of concept, or pilot solutions into production-ready, scalable offerings.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity protections.

• Disability assistance throughout the application process.