IT Product Development Specialist

Kickstart your career at an agency that celebrates and thrives on building the bridge that ensures effective access to patent and trademark information. The United States Patent and Trademark Office is seeking talented professionals to serve as an IT Product Development Specialist to assist with the communication of product vision to the development team on a variety of topics relating to the execution of product development activites.

The physical worksite for this position is located in Alexandria, Virginia. Presence at the Alexandria, VA campus is required for this role, as it includes on site functions that must be performed in person. Position may be eligible for situational telework in accordance with agency policy/business unit discretion. The agency currently allows for 52 hours of telework per calendar year. This rewarding career role is ideal for you if: You are committed to chairing sessions to define IT products for assigned organizational business areas in clear terms that can be understood by a product development team. You are ready to use strong interpersonal skills and abilities to lead, direct and motivate cross-functional, multidisciplinary product development teams and work collaboratively with customers and stakeholders. You are interested in using knowledge of agile and other iterative product development methodologies in order to ensure that IT products are developed in accordance with organizational iterative development methodologies. You are ready to independently plan and carry out work, integrating and coordinating work of developers.

Education may not be substituted for specialized experience at this grade level.