Product Owner

Working Location: Norfolk, USA

Security Clearance: NATO Secret

Language: High proficiency level in English language

In the past years, many NATO nations started Innovation focused initiatives within military domain to capitalize on the unprecedented acceleration of technological development, primarily within the commercial sector. The developments in the US (NSIN, Air Force Kessel Run Lab), Germany (Cyber Incubators), France (AID), UK (DSTL) paved the way to joint efforts with NATO. Consequently, NATO had established a senior level Innovation Board at NATO HQ chaired by the Deputy Secretary General. The NATO Innovation Board confirmed ACT s role to play the leading role for innovation in NATO. With this mandate, the Innovation Hub provides a space to test hypotheses and solutions turning ideas into user-centric Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) through close collaboration of end users and developers. The Lab provides an incubator environment where ideas will come to life rapidly following the best practices of Agile DevSecOps from industry and the latest research from academia. The Lab operational model is being developed incrementally, and the close collaboration with all stakeholders will shape its culture, processes and toolset.

The iHub will operate in a larger ecosystem of innovation-minded partners. To successfully coordinate innovation activities across partner networks it is essential to establish basic guidance and rules orchestrating interactions via a common framework. This framework will help to better capitalize on larger network capabilities, help avoid duplication of work, and promote reuse of products. The Agile DevSecOps culture that will be established within iHub will be promoted across NATO, while associated processes and toolsets will be easily adaptable by other NATO bodies. The iHub state-of-the-art capabilities will continuously be updated via knowledge transfer from the leading industries.

A University/ Bachelor s degree engineering, ICT, business or related field

5 years in the last 10 in the field of Agile product development and delivery

Military operational background or 5 years of experience in military/related capability development and experimentation

Working knowledge of Agile product management tools

Plan, coordinate and leads Innovation Projects. Develop the format of such projects to fill the needs of user in NATO and the wide contribution of possible solutions from outside the NATO Command Structure. Organize project resources and personal involved in the project, including managing the finances and budget of the project

Contribute to the identification of potential Innovative solutions to emerging security challenges of NATO interest, through monitoring, analysing and exploiting scientific and technological research areas and innovative uses of existing and new technologies developed by the private and public sectors

Foster collaboration with research centers to exploit opportunities and potential innovation sprung from those entities

Contribute to the solution development by leading, managing or participating in solution design and development projects in collaboration with Academia, industry and the public entities

Ensure the coherence of the projects he/she manages with the user requirements and the capability development process

Promote and support his/her assigned projects, and related activities and events inside and outside ACT