Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.
Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.
We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.
We are seeking an experienced and creative Product Owner to join our dynamic team. As a Product Owner at Clarity Innovations, you will play a pivotal role in the development and success of our products. You will act as the bridge between US Space Force stakeholders, development teams, and end users to ensure the delivery of high-quality products that meet both business and customer needs. This role requires a strategic mindset, strong communication skills, and a passion for driving product excellence.
Role Expectations
- Own the Product Vision: Clearly define and articulate the long-term vision and goals for the product, aligning them with the overall business strategy. Tell a compelling story for audiences of all levels including senior executives. Establish the product’s vision, strategy, outcome-driven roadmap, and product backlog.
- Facilitate and Communicate: Drive the narrative in both verbal and written communication. Facilitate meetings with team members and stakeholders, communicating effectively at the senior, most executive levels of the Department of the Air Force and using methods your audience will participate in. Communicate the vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog to different audiences with a tailored message they will understand.
- Decision Making and Problem Solving: Make timely and informed decisions on product features, scope, and priorities based on input from stakeholders, market analysis, and feedback from design and development on your team. Identify pain points and opportunities for the team and be proactive in actioning towards resolutions.
- Work Prioritization: Lead and influence a balanced cross-functional team in daily activities to execute against a vision. Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring that it reflects the highest business value and is aligned with the product vision.
- User Story Creation: Document and package detailed operational requirements and experiences. Write clear and detailed user stories with acceptance criteria to communicate product requirements to the development team. Champion user-centered design philosophy within the internal product team and externally with customers.
- Strategic Stakeholder Communication: Act as a bridge between stakeholders and the development team, ensuring that stakeholders' needs and expectations are understood and incorporated into the product backlog. Communicate sophisticated ideas, anticipating potential objections, and persuading others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view
Minimum Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Business, Computer Science, Engineering, etc.)
- At least 10 years of relevant work experience as a product owner.
- Strong understanding of Agile development methodologies.
- Strong understanding of Lean Product Management principles.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience with leading products from idea to market
- Experience with user-centered design, concept and usability testing, and other research methods
- Experience in stakeholder management, communication, and presentation
- Experience working in a balanced team to build, measure, and learn
- Experience working in a rapid and iterative development environment
- Experience balancing customer and user feedback to create a desirable solutions
Preferred:
- Knowledge of US Space Force digital services trends and emerging technologies
- Experience providing input on product decisions through user research, customer development, and iterative feedback loops
- Experience in the design and/or development of full-service applications
Salary Range: $109,000 - $267,000
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Business, Computer Science, or Engineering
- At least 10 years of relevant Product Management experience
- Strong understanding of Agile development methodologies
- Strong understanding of Lean Product Management principles
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience leading products from idea to market
- Experience with user-centered design, concept and usability testing, and other research methods
- Experience in stakeholder management, communication, and presentation
- Experience working in a balanced team to build, measure, and learn
- Experience working in a rapid and iterative development environment
- Experience balancing customer and user feedback to create desirable solutions
- Knowledge of US Space Force digital services trends and emerging technologies
- Experience providing input on product decisions through user research, customer development, and iterative feedback loops
- Experience in the design and/or development of full-service applications
Clarity Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Clarity and has not been reviewed or approved by Clarity.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered strong, with multiple references to “good” or “excellent” compensation. Salary snapshots for engineering and platform roles depict robust pay across multiple seniority levels.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside mental‑health support and wellness programs. The breadth of core offerings indicates comprehensive health support for individuals and families.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off provisions cover company holidays, PTO, and defined leaves such as parental, bereavement, and jury duty. This range of leave types supports common personal and family needs.
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What We Do
Clarity Innovations designs, develops, and deploys force-enhancing software that links human ingenuity to powerful computing and makes our country and our world a better, safer place. Our principles of servant leadership, mutual respect, and technological excellence enable us to thrive on the challenges of the digital frontline. Clarity is focused on helping the Government redefine its relationship with technology by encouraging the use of DevSecOps and Agile methodologies, small-teams constructs, and process automation. To create an atmosphere that embraces the challenges inherent in progress, we honor creativity and curiosity, supporting exploration and growth with modern tech stacks and methodologies. We are as much a family as we are a team, collectively engineering technology that improves the lives and work of the people who use it. We empower our people with the tools, training, and vision they need to outperform the competition.
