Assistant Product Owner, CCA Mission Autonomy (Platform Integration)

Job overview

The Assistant Product Owner, CCA Mission Autonomy (Platform Integration) role is onsite in Washington, DC, with annual compensation of $160,000–$250,000. Shield AI’s mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems; this role supports the U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft program’s Platform Integration and Support shoal. The role keeps the shoal’s product backlog healthy and makes customer priorities, epics, interfaces, dependencies, and milestones clear to the broader team. By translating customer needs into actionable stories and coordinating across feature crews and shoals, the Assistant Product Owner helps teams deliver and integrate mission autonomy and its supporting systems.

What you'll do

• Elicit and validate customer needs and priorities
• translate them into user stories and epics with success and acceptance criteria, effort, timelines, dependencies, risks, and preconditions. Manage the Shoal 1 backlog in Jira and Confluence, maintain requirements traceability, and surface and document scope or priority changes. Support sprint planning and reviews, coordinate cross-shoal dependencies, help communicate operator-interface epics, support vendor interactions, and provide feedback to other shoals through operator-in-the-loop activities.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

assistant product owner

cca mission autonomy

platform integration

product backlog

jira

confluence

agile

washington dc

shield ai

$160k–$250k/year

secret clearance required

15–25% domestic travel

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Full-time regular employee package includes bonus, benefits, and equity.

Why this role

Supports the U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft program; active U.S. DoD Secret clearance required at hire, with eligibility for higher-level access. Domestic travel approximately 15–25%.

About the employer

Shield AI is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.