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Product Owner (Hybrid)

Tapestry Solutions, A Boeing Company, comes with over 30 years of industry experience designing, implementing, training, and supporting logistics information systems. A career with the Tapestry Solutions team brings the best of both worlds:  access to the incredible depth of resources and opportunities of Boeing while working in a company having a small business, family-oriented culture.

We have over 500 employees worldwide supporting our customers with high-quality, innovative, and cost-effective information technology and business intelligence solutions. Tapestry Solutions supports 85 defense, commercial and government customers from over 50 US locations and nine countries.

Tapestry Solutions, a part of Boeing Global Services BGS, is seeking a Product Owner in Maryland Heights, MO.  In this role as Product Owner, you will develop overall project plan consistent with project objectives as defined by the project owner and key stakeholders in accordance with accepted project management standards in the industry (e.g., PMI, Project Management Body of Knowledge [PMBOK], ANSI, SAFe® Agile and ISO standards). Work to improve project management processes and business systems that support project decision makers. May lead others and direct all phases of projects or subsystems of major projects from inception through completion. Act as primary project contact to establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives. Ensure that all project control systems within the scope of the project are in place and integrates project data for decision makers.

Position Responsibilities:

• Continuous refinement of the product backlog as a pre-planning function as well as allowing for more capacity to be pulled in as necessary (stories ready to be worked)
• Creates/validates acceptance criteria at the story level, is the authority on signing off that a story meets the criteria
• Run Iteration Planning – prepares feature and story level priorities for iteration planning, considering impediments and dependencies
• Accepts stories in TFS, validates that the story meets the criteria (tests, requirements, etc.)
• Understands dependencies and enablers for a product to be able to prioritize
• Participate in team demos and retrospectives
• Helps define Iteration goals
• Works with product manager and system architecture team to determine when to create a release branch from development branch
• Provide support to products throughout their lifecycle by developing root-cause analysis of anomalies and other engineering support as requested
• Understands stakeholder requirements and priorities
• Establishes definition of done for minimum viable products/features
• Work under general direction

This position is hybrid. This means that the selected candidate will be required to perform some work onsite at one of the listed location options. This is at the hiring team’s discretion and could potentially change in the future.

This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship.  An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.

This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. 120.15 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

We will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 5+ years of experience planning, leading, organizing and motivating multiple project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering software projects.
• 5+ years of experience implementing and coaching software development teams and business organizations in agile methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Technical background/understanding of software development lifecycle. Sufficient level of experience to provide credible leadership to development teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building
• Analytical, planning and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands and being able to do prioritizations
• An inspiring and positive approach is wanted to find a way and challenging team and customer
• Experience on/with military fighter platforms

Typical Education & Experience:

Education/experience typically acquired through advanced education (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 6 or more years related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g. Master+4 years related work experience, 10 years related work experience, etc.).

Relocation:

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Drug Free Workplace:

We are a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

General:

We strive to deliver a total rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent.  Elements of this package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities. 

We also provide eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.  

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location and date of hire.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualification, as well as spanet and business considerations.  Summary base pay range $77,250 - $92,700

Applications for this position will be accepted until January 31st, 2025.

Shift Work Statement:

This position is for 1st shift

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.