Chief Product Officer

About the position

Leidos QTC Health Services within the Leidos Health & Civil Sector has an opening for a Chief Product Officer (CPO). This is a Vice President level role, reporting to the Leidos Health and Civil Chief Technology Officer. The CPO is a senior-level executive responsible for overseeing the entire product development process, from vision to execution, ensuring timely and successful delivery of products. It is a role that's about driving innovation, shaping product experiences, and making strategic product decisions that impact the company's growth. The selected candidate will play a critical leadership role in aligning product strategies with business goals and managing cross-functional teams. We prefer candidates willing to be based in San Dimas, CA; San Antonio, TX; Nashville, TN; or Reston, VA. Some travel may be required to other company facilities or customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Developing and implementing the product engineering vision, objectives, and roadmaps aligned with company strategy.
• Cultivate a strategic vision for the product, understanding how it fits into the overall company goals.
• Develop a strong customer-centric mindset, focusing on creating products that meet real customer needs.
• Become proficient in using data to inform product decisions and measure success.
• Owning the entire product lifecycle - from ideation, to development, release, and iteration.
• Overseeing and developing engineering teams, including engineers, managers, and potentially other relevant roles.
• Building strong relationships and ensuring alignment across various departments like product, design, marketing, and sales.
• Identifying areas for improvement in the product engineering process and implementing solutions.
• Establishing and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) to track progress and identify areas for improvement.
• Driving innovation and leading organizational change to improve the product engineering process.
• Building and maintaining relationships with customers and industry experts to stay informed about trends and best practices.
• Managing budgets and allocating resources to ensure the successful delivery of products.
• Participate in the definition and implementation of the long-term technology strategy aligned to the lines of business and Business Area strategy/goals.
• Must have gone through major mission critical application modernization and transformation to include, migrating legacy applications to cloud.
• Consult with business leadership on potential solutions to customer's recognized and unrecognized problems and barriers.
• Seek partnerships with strategic suppliers, renowned universities, and research institutions to increase learning opportunities.
• Identify and recruit new technical talent, to include development and mentoring mid-to-senior level technical staff.
• Be a lead collaborator for all technical matters internally and external to the Business Areas and to any other organization within Leidos.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or related field with 15 years of relevant software development experience.
• Prior experience leading large and complex product development teams.
• Understand the principles and core tenets of DevOps, such as automation, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure as code, and the importance of collaboration between development and operations teams.
• Proven track record of delivering products faster time-to-market, higher product quality, and better customer experience.
• Securing business buy-in by translating product vision into clear, data-driven insights.
• Incorporating low-code/no-code technologies into product strategy.
• Building and deploying custom applications rapidly to meet customer needs.
• Demonstrated experience in anticipating customer needs and technological trends to shape new market entries and drive business growth.
• Hands-on experience leading large mission critical applications through their transformation journey.
• Knowledge of foundational technologies such as rapid and secure software development, cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML).
• Enterprise IT domain experience and technical competence; specifically, IT technology related to End User services, Compute and Storage, Cloud, Application Development.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, along with public speaking skills.
• Ability to influence and persuade others, as well as handle difficult negotiations requiring a well-developed sense of strategy.
• Foundational certifications from AWS & Salesforce.
• Ability to mentor, lead, and promote talent.
• Ability to obtain Public Trust level security clearance.

Nice-to-haves

• PhD in Math, Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Advanced professional certifications from AWS & Salesforce.
• Active DoD Secret security clearance.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Health and Wellness programs.
• Income Protection.
• Paid Leave.
• Retirement.