Transformation Train Product Manager - NASA

INNOVIM's NASA EED-3 program is seeking a Product Manager to work in a fast-paced Agile environment that ensures the accurate and timely design, development, and deployment of products and services that allows the large collection of NASA Earth science data to be more discoverable and usable by the end user community. Transformation is an Agile Release Train in which products and services are built as part of the NASA’s Earth Observing System Data Information System (EOSDIS) program, which provides end-to-end capabilities for managing NASA’s Earth science data from various sources – satellites, aircraft, field measurements, and other programs. Transformation services include Harmony, OPeNDAP, Earthdata GIS (EGIS) and Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS). The Transformation Train provides a framework for coordinated service development across NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs).

Location: Remote with quarterly travel to Annapolis, MD for PI Planning
Must be a US Citizen

The following duties are expected to be carried out by the Product Manager:  

• Defining and supporting the building of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable cloud-based products that meet customer needs over time.  
• Collaborating with a wide range of people to identify and define customer needs for cloud platform usage.  
• Managing expectations and requests from both internal and external stakeholders.  
• Supporting the Agile Release Train (ART) in delivering value through the Program Kanban and Continuous Delivery Pipeline.  
• Defining Releases and Program Increments (PI) priorities, as well as participating in PI planning.  
• Managing and prioritizing the ART feature backlog, as well as ensuring product completeness.  
• Developing and communicating the product vision and roadmap, for use towards coordinating the work of multiple Product Managers, ARTs, and Suppliers.  

  Required Experience, Knowledge, and/or Skills:   

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of experience building software applications for enterprise scale systems.  
• At least 4 years of people management, including relationship building with key stakeholders, communicating technical findings with non-technical stakeholders, and working with subcontractor team members, in agile development environments.  
• Experience working with geospatial data and tools, especially those related to this program (ArcGIS, Common Metadata Repository, Harmony and OPeNDAP).  
• Ability to ensure that developed products are moving in the right direction, in step with the product vision, goals, and objectives.   
• Ability to align development efforts to meet end-user needs and customer’s goals.  
• Experience using metrics and data to drive a development team to a desired goal.  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience creating RACI charts.  

Desired Experience:  

• Experience using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), particularly as a Product Owner or Product Manager.  
• Knowledge of geospatial data transformation and visualization, including subsetting, reprojection and file reformatting. 
• Experience engaging with open-source communities, such as pangeo. 
• Experience with conflict management between two or more parties.  

INNOVIM is committed to providing superior work in the fields of science, engineering, data analytics and technology to government agencies. We offer competitive compensation packages, including comprehensive nationwide Medical/Dental/Vision insurance programs, life insurance, matching 401k contribution and Educational/Training support.