Job Listing Information
- 23-Apr-2026 to 07-May-2026 (UTC)
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Full Time
- Long Term Contract Length
- 40 Weekly Hours
Complete Description:
- The Department of Management (DOM), Division of Information Technology (DoIT), is seeking a Product Owner/Portfolio Manager.
- The position involves close collaboration with business and IT management, oversight of cross-functional fusion teams, and a commitment to continuous improvement driven by performance data and user feedback.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a portfolio of IT products and applications, ensuring successful completion and alignment with business needs for both internal and external users
- Serve as a Product Owner to guide products through all lifecycle stages, ensuring efficiency, quality, and alignment with strategic goals.
- Work with business SMEs, internal teams, external agencies, and vendors to define product scope, identify IT-enabled solutions, and support procurement and implementation processes.
- Create and prioritize product backlogs and maintain roadmaps that align with long-term IT strategies and changing user and state needs.
- Oversee product releases, ensure readiness for deployment, monitor performance, gather feedback, and manage risks affecting delivery or budget.
- Collaborate with business and IT leadership to define and track performance metrics, ensuring all products and processes meet state, federal, and IT governance requirements.
- Manage relationships with vendors and service providers, overseeing performance, resolving issues related to interoperability, and ensuring adherence to service level agreements (SLAs) and availability targets.
- Oversee product IT financials, including budget planning and monitoring, while providing leadership with regular updates on product status, risks, and strategic roadmap progress.
- Lead and manage cross-functional fusion teams, ensuring effective collaboration among IT, vendors, and business units to deliver solutions that align with business needs and budget constraints.
- Partner with DoIT supervisors to allocate appropriate technical resources, monitor team performance, and provide ongoing support to fusion team staff.
- Facilitate agile meetings and lead sprint reviews, user story development, ensuring team alignment on priorities and presenting outputs to stakeholders.
- Use feedback and metrics to identify product needs and collaborate on acceptance criteria, testing, and feature delivery.
- Collaborate with Executive Technology Officers (ETOs) and product teams to prioritize and manage product development efforts, ensuring alignment with agency needs and effectively transitioning products to enterprise services.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with client/business teams, establishing regular communication and fostering trust to ensure successful collaboration and issue resolution.
Fill the skill matrix below:
|
Skill |
Required/Desired |
Amount |
Candidate's No. of years of experience |
|
Experience in Project management: planning/managing scope, budget, timeline, resources; coordinating project activities |
Required |
5 |
|
|
Experience in Product ownership, portfolio management |
Required |
2 |
|
|
Experience in Requirement elicitation, documentation and articulation between teams |
Required |
5 |
|
|
Proficient understanding of the software development lifecycle and related methodologies |
Required |
5 |
|
|
Experience partnering with vendor project teams, managing relationships and vendor management |
Required |
5 |
|
|
High quality documentation: project plans, status updates, presentations, requirements, user stories, process maps, instructions |
Required |
5 |
|
|
Demonstrated strong communication skills across technical teams and business stakeholders, specifically to leadership - setting/resetting expectations |
Required |
5 |
|
|
Guide stages of agile software development, including user story development, sprint planning, and prioritization of the product backlog. |
Required |
3 |
|
|
IT vendor management |
Required |
3 |
|