Job Description
The Senior Product Owner (specifically Technical Product Owner) will define product vision and priorities for a research-collaboration tooling initiative, translating business and research collaboration needs into clear technical requirements and an actionable roadmap. This position partners closely with DevSecOps engineering and platform leads to keep this initiative's roadmap aligned with broader platform priorities.
The ideal candidate is both product-ownership fluent and technically literate, with enough platform-level knowledge of source-control, technical authoring, and file-collaboration tools to evaluate feasibility, ask informed questions of technical SMEs, and make informed technology decisions grounded in what the underlying platforms can actually do.
Job Responsibilities
Deliverables
The Contractor shall deliver, but not limited to, the following:
• A product vision, prioritized roadmap, and technical specifications for researchcollaboration
tooling, traceable from business need through technical delivery.
• Feasibility and integration-approach assessments for research-collaboration platform
initiatives, guided by insight from business analysts and economists and developed
jointly with engineering and platform architects.
• Decision logs, meeting minutes, and other process documentation supporting the product
workstream.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Washington, DC |
| Job Type | Full-time |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Year Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Flower Mound, Texas, US |
| Website | http://www.evolversgroup.com/ |
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in product ownership, technical business analysis, or a related role, ideally in a platform, tooling, or developer-collaboration context.
• Proven track record defining product vision and translating business/stakeholder needs into technical specifications and user stories.
• Experience working directly with business analysts, senior leadership, and engineers or architects to validate feasibility and make technology decisions.
• Working knowledge of source-control/developer-collaboration platforms (e.g., GitHub), technical authoring and research-collaboration platforms (e.g., Overleaf), and file collaboration/ research-sharing platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) preferred.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholders.
Preferred
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), or equivalent.
• Experience supporting a research-collaboration, academic-partnership, or external stakeholder engagement effort.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery practices (Scrum/Kanban).
• Federal government experience.
• Experience in a DevSecOps or platform engineering environment.
About Company
The Evolvers Group is a Dallas/Ft. Worth based consulting and contracting firm, spun-off in 2001, to provide contract resources to augment client staff, with the philosophy that, "the foundation of everything good is good people". Therefore, our investment in human resources is two-fold: first, our main investment is in our recruiting staff and the technical core team that supports recruiting, which in turn empowers them to hire the best talent for our clients. Our Staff is dedicated to working closely with our clients to establish close working relationships that foster open communication and understanding of their needs.
IT Staffing: The Evolvers Group has extensive public sector (Federal, State and Local) and private sector experience and has been providing IT consulting and Staff Augmentation services to State of Texas agencies through the DIR ITSAC (Department of Information Resources IT Staff Augmentation Contract) since 2006. We have also been providing consulting services via the DBITS (Deliverables-based IT Services) contract since 2013.
General Staffing: Evolvers is also a staffing vendor for General - Non-Technical office/clerical, administrative support, and light industrial positions for temporary and contract-hire.
Healthcare Staffing: Evolvers has its own healthcare practice made of a team that consists of Public Health Specialists, Medical Doctors, Certified Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Licensed Vocational Nurses, Pharmacist In Charge, Radiologists, Phlebotomists, Certified Medical Assistants, Research Scientists, Technicians, Case Workers, Analysts, Investigators, Medical Writers, and administrative staff.
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