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Our team relies on deep subject matter expertise (SME), active user community engagement, operational awareness, and disciplined data science practices to deliver secure, scalable, and mission-aligned analytical solutions.\nDue to the requirement for active, on-site customer engagement and the sensitive nature of our data and applications, the primary work location for this role is in Norfolk, Virginia.\nWhat you will do\nThe Associate Product Owner - Global Force Management (GFM) will support the Operations Lead and/or Deputy Program Manager in translating customer needs and operational requirements into actionable software capabilities for ORION. This role bridges GFM mission operations, government stakeholders, and the software development team.\nThe successful candidate will help capture and refine requirements, coordinate with developers, support customer engagements, and track capability delivery against operational priorities and the ORION roadmap. This position offers a growth path toward increased responsibility for requirements management, product ownership, customer engagement, and capability delivery.\nKey Responsibilities:\nRequirements Management: Support the collection, documentation, refinement, prioritization, and validation of government requirements, including functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting artifacts.\nDevelopment Coordination: Work with the development team to clarify requirements, resolve questions, track progress, and help ensure delivered capabilities meet their intended functional requirements.\nRoadmap Alignment: Coordinate with the Operations Lead and Deputy Program Manager to align customer needs, development priorities, dependencies, and delivery schedules with the ORION roadmap.\nCustomer Engagement: Participate in and progressively take responsibility for customer working groups, requirements sessions, demonstrations, training, planning support, and operational analysis.\nCapability Improvement: Help identify operational gaps, emerging requirements, and opportunities to improve ORION functionality, workflows, data integration, and decision support.\nGFM Mission Support: Apply knowledge of Global Force Management processes and Service, Combatant Command (CCMD), and Force Provider operations to inform requirements and support customer needs.\nAgile Delivery: Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, demonstrations, reviews, and other software development lifecycle activities.\nStakeholder Communication: Help communicate requirements, capability status, and operational considerations across government customers, program leadership, and technical teams.\nWhat you should have\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or another relevant technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.\n5 + years of related experience.\nWorking knowledge of Global Force Management processes, terminology, and operational workflows.\nFamiliarity with Service, Combatant Command, and Force Provider operations.\nExperience supporting government requirements, project delivery, or customer-facing technical programs.\nExperience working collaboratively in an Agile or iterative software development environment.\nStrong analytical, organizational, written communication, and interpersonal skills.\nSECRET security clearance.\nWhat we'd like you to have\nDirect experience supporting Department of War programs or government customers.\nExperience with GFM processes, systems, or programs.\nExperience gathering requirements, developing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, or supporting software testing and validation.\nExposure to software development, data-driven applications, or decision-support systems.\nFamiliarity with Agile/Scrum, product ownership, or software development lifecycle practices.\nProject management, Product Owner, Lean, or Six Sigma certification.\nAbout BigBear.ai\nBigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on Bigbear.ai’s predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. 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