GridBeats Cybersecurity is seeking a Cybersecurity Product Owner to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of features or components for the team. The role aims to maximize the value produced by the team and ensure alignment with user needs and cybersecurity domain requirements.
Requirements
- 8+ years’ experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role within software development, ideally with exposure to OT or cybersecurity domains.
- Strong understanding of OT environments (e.g., SCADA, DCS, PLCs) and cybersecurity challenges unique to industrial settings.
- Familiarity with relevant cybersecurity standards and regulations (e.g., NIST, IEC 62443).
- Experience with agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).
- Experience with Git and SCM branching strategies.
- Experience with understanding of virtualization technologies & strategies and licensing business models.
- Product management certifications (e.g., CSPO, PSPO) are a plus.
Responsibilities
- Preparation and Participation in PI Planning as a member of the extended Product Management team, the PO is heavily involved in program backlog refinement and prep for Program Increment (PI) planning and plays a significant role in the planning event itself.
- Iteration Execution Maintaining the team backlog – With input from System Architect/Engineering and other stakeholders, the PO has the primary responsibility for building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog.
- Iteration Planning – The PO reviews and reprioritizes the backlog as part of the prep work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other POs.
- Just-in-time story elaboration – Most backlog items are elaborated into user stories for implementation.
- Apply Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) – POs collaborate with their team to detail stories with acceptance criteria and examples in the form of acceptance tests.
- Accepting stories – The PO works with the team to agree on accepted story completion.
- Understand enabler work – While POs are not expected to drive technological decisions, they are supposed to understand the scope of the upcoming enabler work and collaborate with System and Solution Architects/Engineering to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the critical technological infrastructures.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Technology or Engineering.
- Strong collaboration, leadership and influencing skills to drive transformation.
- Experience with Change management and culture change – experience with R&D organizations and cross-matrix processes.
- The position is remote.
- No relocation assistance provided.
