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About Arcticom, LLC

Arcticom, LLC, a subsidiary of Bering Straits Native Corporation is currently seeking a qualified Product Owner on the FMO Support contract at WPAFB in support of Air Force Logistics systems and business processes. The Product Owner will be responsible for the team’s work backlog, from writing, maintaining priority, and organizing product backlog items to gathering requirements and stakeholder needs. 

About this position: Product Owner                               Location – Beavercreek, OH

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed for this position and are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job. Other duties may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Wage/Salary Range: $120k - $150K

Applicants will be notified via phone or email within ten (10) business days of submittal.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Author, maintain, and prioritize product backlog to ensure highest value delivery in collaboration with IT and business stakeholders, including Agile coach, product owners, cross-functional development team members, and requestors. 

• Proficiently facilitate scoping and requirements elicitation sessions for projects while maintaining goal focus and managing group dynamics. 

• Build, sustain, and leverage relationships with persons within his/her area of immediate responsibility when gathering, validating and approving requirements. 

• Gain an understanding of the stakeholder's business culture and priorities and the need for different requirement gathering techniques. 

• Identify sources of requirements, including impacts from vendor supplied documentation, and clearly communicate potential solutions to business problems. 

• Remain impartial in requirements discussions; confirm understanding by all parties involved when validating requirements. 

• Recognize inconsistencies and gaps in a complex business process. 

• Document effectively in requirements discovery sessions and meetings. 

• Develop, own, and execute product roadmap. 

• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including epics, user stories, and acceptance test criteria. 

• Collaborate with partners and customers to co-develop roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment. 

• Communicate platform goals and vision effectively to cross-functional delivery team. 

• Partners with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization. 

• Turn data insights into products with actionable outcomes to the ultimate customer. 

• Responsible for innovation and end-to-end launch of products. 

• Promote and demonstrate Agile values and principles. 

• Work in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refine priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks. 

• Collaborate with peers and related roles to establish guidelines and recommend practices for story writing and story refinement across the organization. 

Required (Minimum Necessary) Qualifications

• Education Requirements: a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or related field, or 5-10 years’ equivalent experience. 

• Level of Experience Requirements: Must possess or be able to pass a National Agency Check with Inquiries background investigation; requires US citizenship. 

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics

• A passion for system stability, performance, scalability or customer success. 
• Good communication skills, written and verbal in English. 
• Well organized and can take direction and work independently. 
• Curious and continuous learner. 
• Experience in agile project management methods including milestones, progress status, proper documentation, and deliverables with the ability to prioritize. 
• Strong interpersonal, communications, presentation, 
• Ability to work effectively across the organization with other IT and Business departments. 
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills to work with complex systems containing many moving parts. 
• Demonstrated research and analytical skills to define and solve problems and think creatively. 
• Readiness to undertake assignments involving unfamiliar subjects, as well as work independently and productively, with the aptitude to learn quickly. 
• Ability to work collaboratively on a team in a remote environment. 
• Strong communication skills. 
• Organizational skills to prioritize and plan work, multi-task and meet schedule. 

Preferred

• N/A

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This position will not have supervisory responsibilities.

DOT Covered/Safety-Sensitive Role Requirements

• This position is not subject to federal requirements regarding Department of Transportation “safety-sensitive” functions.

Necessary Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this role. Employees must always maintain a constant state of mental alertness. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking or standing for prolonged periods of time; most of time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about.

Work Environment

The work environmental characteristics described here are representative of those that must be borne by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the role. Employees must always maintain a constant state of situational awareness. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job is performed in an office setting with exposure to computer screens and requires extensive use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, and multi-line telephone system. The work described herein is primarily a modern office setting. Occasional travel may be required.

Additional Qualifying Factors

As a condition of employment, you will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening and have acceptable background check results. If applicable to the contract, you must also obtain and maintain the appropriate clearance levels required and must also be able to obtain access to military installations.

Shareholder Preference

BSNC gives hiring, promotion, training, and retention preference to BSNC shareholders, shareholder descendants and shareholder spouses who meet the minimum qualifications for the job.

Bering Straits Native Corporation is an equal opportunity employer.  All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by state or federal law, or any other basis prohibited by law.