Associate Product Owner (Global Force Management)

Location: Onsite in Norfolk, Virginia, United States; all applicants must currently reside in the United States.

Salary: USD $95,553–$190,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global provides AI-powered decision intelligence and predictive analytics for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity.

What you will do

• Collect, document, refine, prioritize, and validate government requirements, including functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting artifacts.
• Coordinate with developers to clarify requirements, resolve questions, track progress, and validate delivered capabilities.
• Align customer needs, development priorities, dependencies, and delivery schedules with the ORION roadmap.
• Participate in customer working groups, requirements sessions, demonstrations, training, planning support, and operational analysis.
• Identify operational gaps and opportunities to improve ORION functionality, workflows, data integration, and decision support.
• Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, demonstrations, reviews, stakeholder communication, and other software development lifecycle activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or another relevant technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years of related experience.
• Working knowledge of Global Force Management processes, terminology, and operational workflows.
• Familiarity with Service, Combatant Command, and Force Provider operations.
• Experience supporting government requirements, project delivery, or customer-facing technical programs.
• Experience working collaboratively in an Agile or iterative software development environment.
• Strong analytical, organizational, written communication, and interpersonal skills.
• SECRET security clearance.

Nice to have

• Direct experience supporting Department of War programs or government customers.
• Experience with GFM processes, systems, or programs.
• Experience gathering requirements, developing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, or supporting software testing and validation.
• Exposure to software development, data-driven applications, or decision-support systems.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum, product ownership, or software development lifecycle practices.
• Project management, Product Owner, Lean, or Six Sigma certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an AI/ML company delivering secure, scalable, mission-aligned analytical solutions.
• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, analysts, mission technologists, domain experts, government stakeholders, and software developers.
• Compensation is an estimated range and may vary based on skills, experience, education, certifications, location, and other factors.
• The estimated compensation excludes the value of benefits offered.
• Equal opportunity employment includes protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.