Job Details

Req ID: 48654

Team: T56 AI and Digital Innovation

Entity: Newport News Shipbuilding

US Citizenship Required for this Position: Yes

Full-Time

Shift: 1st

Relocation: No relocation assistance available

Virtual/Telework Opportunity: Yes - Occasional or hybrid telework available

Travel Requirements: Yes, 10%-25% of the time

Clearance Required: No - Clearance Not Required to Start

Salary Range: $113,000.00 to $142,000.00

The anticipated salary range represents the estimated base pay for this role. Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors, and may vary from the posted range

Meet HII's Newport News Shipbuilding

With more than 25,000 employees – including third-, fourth- and even fifth-generation shipbuilders – HII's Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division is the largest industrial employer in Virginia. We're the sole designer, builder and refueler of U.S. Navy nuclear aircraft carriers and one of two providers of U.S. Navy nuclear submarines. Our diverse and innovative team of professionals ranges from skilled trades to project managers, engineers and software developers to solution architects, technical subject matter experts, and system users. We collaborate together at the forefront of technology, manufacturing, and integration of the most powerful and survivable naval ships in the world.

The Role

Responsible for the success of the product by maximizing the output of the development team within a scrum framework. Responsible for ordering backlog, clearly expressing the product backlog items, ordering the items to best achieve goals and optimize the value of the work the team performs. Lead collaboration, facilitate sprint activities, and create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements. Work closely with business stakeholders, product/project managers, and technical teams to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs to ensure full understanding of project scope, objectives, and requirements. Develop and adapt the product vision, writing new user stories, and specify acceptance of each user story. Bring members of the User Community together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, manage toolset or training improvements, discuss issues, and drive toward process standardization.

Ensure the health and quality of specific processes and resulting products across the value stream.

The Product Owner provides senior level product leadership for capabilities spanning multiple delivery teams, programs, or product areas within the IT division. This role defines roadmap objectives, sequences complex initiatives, manages cross team dependencies, and drives alignment across business and technical partners. Operating within a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment, the Product Owner partners with business leadership, product managers, delivery teams, platform engineers, and architects to ensure solutions meet enterprise goals and architectural direction. This role has significant influence on product strategy and ensures consistent value delivery at scale.

Key Responsibilities Include

The product owner will act as a strategic partner, drive consistency, innovation, and maturity across NNS's technical, digital, and operational excellence initiatives. This role partners closely with many divisions across NNS and has experience working with the following teams:

Data Scientists
Digital Innovation and UX teams
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
IIOT/Digital Plant
Data Warehouse
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

The candidate should have extensive experience and knowledge of portfolio management. They will collaborate to establish product vision, identify new customer opportunities, ensure the solutions are valuable and successful, facilitate communication and relationships between other product owners and technology, and prioritize and manage work intake.

Demonstrated experience delivering large technical programs. The complexity of initiatives like cloud, IIOT, modular data architectures, AI and predictive planning at enterprise scale require deep technical execution fluency – not just oversight.
Deep expertise in product ownership across complex or multi team environments
Ability to define product strategy, roadmap elements, and feature sequencing
Skill in dependency management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder negotiation
Experience aligning multiple teams or programs to shared objectives
Strong analytics and decision making based on metrics like value, predictability, and quality
Ability to influence leadership and drive cross team consensus
Ensure solutions have alignment with enterprise strategy

Must Have

Bachelor's Degree and 9 years of relevant exempt experience; Master's Degree and 7 years of relevant professional experience; Ph.D. and 4 years of experience.

One of the following may be used as an equivalent to Bachelor's Degree :

NNS Apprentice School graduate
Navy Nuclear Power School (NNPS) graduate
Associate's Degree or other formal 2 year program and 2 years of relevant exempt experience or 4 years of relevant non-exempt experience
Military Paygrade E-5 or above military experience
High School/GED and 4 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant exempt experience
High School/GED and 8 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant non-exempt experience

Nice to Have

Experience With Enterprise Level Initiatives Or Platform Responsibilities

Value stream mapping, Lean prioritization, or portfolio planning experience
Ability to define and enforce product workflows, standards, or governance practices
Advanced SAFe or product management certification
Experience shaping long range product planning and financial prioritization

Why HII

We build the world's most powerful, survivable naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas, sky, land, space and cyber. HII's diverse workforce includes skilled tradespeople; artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) experts; engineers; technologists; scientists; logistics experts; and business administration professionals.

Recognized as one of America's top large company employers, we are a values and ethics driven organization that puts people's safety and well-being first. Regardless of your role or where you serve, at HII, you'll find a supportive and welcoming environment, competitive benefits, and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career.

Working at HII is more than a job - it's an opportunity to build a future. We offer comprehensive benefits including: medical, prescription drug, dental and vision plan choices, on-site health centers, tele-medicine, wellness resources, employee assistance programs, savings plan options (401K), financial education and planning tools, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts, early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships, and more. Some benefits may vary depending on your specific division or work location.

Together we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions.

Do You Need Assistance?

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Reasonable accommodations are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.

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