Senior Product Owner, Connectivity

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Simplesense builds, deploys, and sustains the Installation Resilience Platform that enables mission operators to rapidly adapt and respond. The Platform protects critical infrastructure from cyber attack while unlocking previously siloed information to monitor, diagnose, and improve response times to incidents. Our adversaries rapidly adopt the latest technology: we help defense users respond in kind. Simplesense is a non-traditional defense contractor and prime on the Air Force's Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control (IROC) program, which is now expanding to five additional Air Force, Space Force, and Army installations from the one prototype installation, Tyndall Air Force Base. Our team combines over 100 years of direct mission experience solving hard problems with 50 years technical expertise deploying DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure, giving us a deep appreciation for our customers' mission and end users' priorities. We build for scale, architecting and prioritizing technical work for long term sustainability. Senior Product Owner, Connectivity Simplesense is looking for a Senior Product Owner, Connectivity to join our hybrid, US-based team. The Senior Product Owner, Connectivity will serve as the Tactical Delivery Lead for the Connectivity capability, focused on translating the strategic vision for Security, Protocol Translation, and Resilience into clear, ready-to-build engineering plans. This role is responsible for driving the execution strategy and managing the end-to-end delivery lifecycle for the team, establishing the "Secure Pipeline" that securely bridges air-gapped networks to non-disruptively extract data from sensitive Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS). The Connectivity Team represents our ability to securely and resiliently establish access to facility hosted Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS). This position requires a seasoned individual capable of handling significant complexity, mentoring junior team members, and proactively influencing cross-functional technical alignment. This role reports to the Director of Product. Key Responsibilities: Tactical Delivery & Execution Ownership As the Tactical Delivery Lead for the Connectivity capability, your responsibilities will focus on delivery excellence, technical clarity, and process maturity: Advanced Backlog Refinement: Proactively translate complex, network-heavy requirements (e.g., Secure Data Acquisition, Protocol Translation, Edge Computing) into meticulously detailed, actionable engineering plans (epics, user stories, tasks), ensuring zero ambiguity for the technical team. Day-to-Day Delivery Anchor: Act as the first point of escalation for the engineering team, providing rapid, informed decisions to unblock work, clarify technical acceptance criteria regarding OT stack configurations and secure channel establishment, and maintain sprint momentum. Delivery Sequencing & Risk Management: Work intimately with Program Management to strategically sequence the team's work to meet critical contract commitments and high-stakes delivery milestones, proactively identifying and mitigating execution risks associated with external network connections (e.g., COIN, CRN). Mentorship and Process Improvement: Elevate the team's output by establishing and enforcing best practices for story writing, acceptance testing, and definition of done. Provide guidance to junior colleagues and actively identify and fix process inefficiencies within the delivery pipeline. Cross-Functional Technical Alignment: Collaborate closely with the Data Insights and Platform teams to ensure dependencies are managed (e.g., ensuring data is ready for transformation downstream), interfaces are clear, and the overall technical solution design aligns with long-term strategic architectural goals. Acceptance & Quality Gate: Serve as the final arbiter for validating that all delivered features meet defined technical specifications and functional requirements, ensuring compliance with critical infrastructure security standards (e.g., unidirectional flow, zero-trust principles). Success Criteria Success in this role will be defined by the ability to manage complex delivery cycles and demonstrate strong leadership in execution: Predictable Feature Delivery: Consistently delivering features and increments on time, minimizing scope creep and schedule volatility. Technical Clarity & Quality: Maintaining a high-quality, prioritized backlog that leads to reduced rework, lower incidence of bugs, and high technical team satisfaction. Proactive Dependency Management: Successfully identifying and resolving cross-capability dependencies (e.g., ensuring raw data feeds are available for the Data Insights team) before they impact the Connectivity delivery schedule. Process Maturity: Establishing sustainable, scalable delivery processes (e.g., grooming standards, QA protocols) that im

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