Infrastructure Product Owner

Role: Infrastructure Product Owner
Location(s): Irving TX; Charlotte NC; Chandler AZ or Iselin NJ
Term: 24 Month W2 Contract (CANNOT work Corp to Corp)
Compensation: Negotiable (Benefits included)

About this role:
We are seeking a Product Owner with experience in one or more of the following technical areas: web proxy servers, firewalls, microsegmentation, remote access, zero trust network access, and web application firewalls. In this role, you will own the product vision, roadmap, and investment strategy enabling the timely delivery of our products to our customers. As Product Owner, you will also prioritize the backlog and incoming expedited requests by collaborating with your delivery team(s) and the customer.

In this job, you will:
• Develop, evolve, and communicate the product area vision, priorities and strategy while managing risk and ensuring regulatory and policy compliance.
• Establish, communicate, and monitor product area goals and performance indicators.
• Identify and build relationships with key partners and stakeholders to communicate product area vision, strategies, and priorities while soliciting and incorporating feedback.
• Facilitate frequent collaboration between customers, stakeholders, and teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Engage in industry, technology, and customer ecosystem research and discovery to incorporate and prioritize key findings into the product area backlog.
• Actively own the prioritization of a clearly understood product area backlog aligned to product area vision and goals.
• Identify and resolve sequencing and prioritization conflicts across products and product areas.
• Inspire and guide high-performing, cross-functional teams.
• Be consistently and actively present and in cadenced communication with product leadership and product area team members.
• This person will perform a crucial role in transforming our teams to a high performing agile team and in delivering enterprise-wide value as we transition to a strategic secure network platform of the future.
• Work closely with the product managers, technical leaders, and business leaders to create meaningful customer value with our current and emerging connectivity and cryptographic services.
• Work closely with our lead Agilists to transform our team a model state product and portfolio management.
• Need strong risk and dependency management skills to coordinate large complex initiatives across multiple Agile and non-agile teams.
• Need to leverage excellent verbal, written, relationship, and influencing skills across all levels of the organization to build consensus and enthusiasm to prioritize our product delivery against the overall product strategy.
• Will need to be comfortable with technical complexity, ambiguity and facilitating discussions to explore the best possible solution.

Qualifications:
• 5+ years of product owner experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• One or more of the following:
o Experience with web proxy servers, firewalls, microsegmentation, remote access, zero trust network access, and web application firewalls
o Experience with Agile practices and frameworks (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, etc.) and workflow and collaboration tools, such as Confluence, Jira and Jira Align
o Experience with traditional project management practices (e.g., Waterfall) and tools, such as Microsoft Project

Desired Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience leading large scale, very complex product portfolios with broad scope and impact across large organizations.
• Experience transitioning teams to agile product and portfolio management
• One or more of the following:
o Experience building next generation data center network security solutions and scale migration from legacy to the best-in-class data center environment
o Experience with application delivery services including web application firewalls and web proxy
o Experience with cloud technologies enabling shift from on-premise infrastructure
o Experience with network security infrastructure automation