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title: 'Product Owner at Adelphi'
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# Product Owner at Adelphi

- **Company:** Adelphi
- **Location:** Mclean, VA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/adelphi-ai/1cbb6963-27db-4f1d-b7ec-564f75f08ea0

## Job description

## About Adelphi

Adelphi's Vision is to build the biggest AI Deployment company for National Security, which requires talent that is extremely good at problem solving, gets excited about National Security challenges, and thrives in software factories. We're executing a Mission that (1) Identifies the core bottlenecks in Warfighting, Intelligence and the Enterprise, (2) Assigns top talent with backgrounds in systems and machine learning engineering, and (3) Finds repeatability in solution development to target similar offices across the DoW/IC. The business has 10x'd in under two years and has built trust with the senior most leaders at the Department of War and Intelligence Community.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We're hiring a Product Owner to run delivery planning for a large public sector customer in an AI R&D environment. You'll be forward deployed with our engineering team and you'll own the documents the program plans against: the PRDs, the roadmaps, the backlog, and the timelines we commit to.

Most of that doesn't exist yet. We're shipping fast for a customer who tracks our output closely, and when a date moves there's often no document either side can point to. Your job is to fix that and then keep it fixed, so the engineers can move without renegotiating scope every week.

You're the first person in this seat. You'll work closely with our lead forward deployed engineer and report to our Sr. Director of Product Operations, with a lot of room to decide how the work gets planned and run. The program spans a wide range of missions, and you'll get to run delivery at startup speed inside government work.

Location: Based in the McLean, VA area. On site three days a week, either at our office or at a customer location, with up to one of those days customer-facing. Very little travel beyond that.

Clearance Requirement: You'll need an active U.S. Government clearance at the Secret level or above.

IS THIS YOU?

We're an AI-native company. That expectation covers this role too, even though you won't be writing code.

- 2–5 years as a product owner, scrum master, or technical program manager, with at least three years delivering in the public sector.
- You've worked without a spec before. When something is undefined, you go define it.
- You can size work credibly. You need to follow what an engineer tells you and say something when an estimate doesn't add up.
- You've run delivery in Jira, Linear or a similar tool, and you know how to keep a board honest.
- You're very organized and detail-oriented, and it shows up in the documents you leave behind.
- Scope changes here. Direction changes. Contractors from other organizations on the program will make your week harder. None of that rattles you.
- You care about the work getting done more than whose name is on it.
- You're steady in front of a customer and confident about what your team brings to the table.

## EXPECTATIONS

- Own delivery planning across every project we support for this customer. Scope, sequence, timeline, and getting the work finished.
- Write and maintain the PRDs and roadmaps. These are the documents we and the customer both point to when a date moves.
- Run the agile function. Structure the backlog, build the tickets with the engineers doing the work, hold the delivery cadence.
- Own requirements intake from the weekly mission owner touchpoints. Write the summaries, capture what was actually asked for, and turn it into work the team can pick up.
- Define what done looks like on each project, and hold the line on scope with documentation behind you.
- Build the delivery reporting and metrics our customer's program leadership uses to see where we stand.
- Establish how we intake, build and deliver new projects in this customer space, at a standard that brings them back for more work.

## BONUS POINTS

- You like scrum and delivery management enough that you want to build the dashboards and roadmap visualizations yourself.
- You've built the wiki and the SOPs that a program actually uses.
- You've worked on AI, LLM, or data integration programs.
- You've been forward deployed or embedded with a customer.
- You've been the first product person on a program or a team.

Benefits:

- Healthcare coverage: 100% employee premium and 50% dependents premium coverage of a platinum-level plan.
- 401K with 2% company match.
- Equity in a seed-stage business.
- $500 monthly Physical and Mental Health reimbursement program.
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Competitive salary and equity compensation.
- Opportunity to work on impactful projects in the national security sector.
- Career growth and leadership opportunities in a dynamic, innovative environment.

## About Adelphi

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Adelphi provides secure, federated data connectivity for intelligence and defense organizations, enabling zero-movement data sharing, AI-powered analysis, and collaboration across siloed, sensitive environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $7M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly disclosed (earliest public mention is August 2025 fundraise announcement)
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed (team page indicates a "CEO + Co-founder" and "Board Director and Co-Founder" but names are not included in available materials)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: National security, defense intelligence, secure data infrastructure
- **Target Customers**: B2G – U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense, allied nations, and other classified/mission-critical environments
- **Mission Statement**: "To build technology that allows the Intelligence Community and Defense organizations to truly operate at speed of mission." [adelphi.ai/team](https://www.adelphi.ai/team)

## Products & Services
- **Adelphi Connector (Federated Data Connectivity)**: A modular, permission-based platform that connects to data sources in place – no ETL, no duplication. Enables real-time discovery and query across hundreds of databases, clouds, and air-gapped networks. Integrates with existing analyst workflows. [adelphi.ai](https://www.adelphi.ai/)
- **Privacy-Preserving Clean Rooms**: Controlled, auditable, non-attributable environments for sharing operational data across networks and organizations without moving or exposing raw data. [adelphi.ai](https://www.adelphi.ai/)
- **AI-Powered Data Connectivity**: AI-driven connectors that automatically discover and integrate diverse data sources with minimal setup. Supports MCP and equivalent agentic frameworks for automated intelligence workflows. [adelphi.ai/why-adelphi](https://www.adelphi.ai/why-adelphi)
- **Confidential Computing**: Secure execution environments that keep data encrypted, isolated, and auditable during processing. [adelphi.ai/why-adelphi](https://www.adelphi.ai/why-adelphi)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $7.1M (Seed round, August 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by **Eniac Ventures** (Tim Young). Participants include **Flex Capital**, **Shaper Capital**, **Afore Capital**, **Essence Capital**, **Octave Capital**, plus unnamed angel investors. [adelphi.ai/fundraise-announcement](https://www.adelphi.ai/fundraise-announcement)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 83.3% year-over-year headcount growth (from 7 employees, per LinkedIn) [linkedin.com/company/adelphi-data](https://www.linkedin.com/company/adelphi-data)
  - Raised $7M seed round in August 2025 to accelerate product development and team expansion
  - Active hiring across engineering, product, and customer success roles

## Competitive Advantages
- **Zero Data Movement**: Federated architecture queries data in place, eliminating the security and compliance risks of traditional ETL and data migration.
- **Purpose-Built for Sensitive Environments**: Works across air-gapped networks, hybrid clouds, and compartmented systems with cryptographic trust boundaries and full audit trails.
- **Policy-Driven Access Control**: Permissions, time, and purpose govern data access – data owners retain control without copying data into a central repository.
- **AI-Native Integration**: Connectors support MCP and agentic frameworks, enabling automated discovery and analysis without manual configuration.
- **Domain Expertise**: Team members have deep operational and technical experience inside the national security and intelligence ecosystem, designing solutions that match how analysts actually work. [adelphi.ai/team](https://www.adelphi.ai/team)

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate product development and scale the platform for broader deployment across U.S. and allied intelligence agencies.
- Expand the team across engineering, product, and customer success to meet growing demand.
- Deepen integrations with existing data sources and workflows, reducing time-to-value for customers.
- Continue to build trust and compliance features (confidential computing, clean rooms) as foundational differentiators.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Impact**: Work on a critical national security problem – enabling secure, fast data sharing across the Intelligence Community and defense organizations.
- **Small, High-Growth Team**: 7 employees with 83% headcount growth in the last year; new hires will have significant ownership and influence.
- **Talent & Culture**: The team includes veterans from heavy regulated industries (Datavant, Reflexive Concepts, Equinix, etc.) who are "re-envisioning how secure data sharing can better unlock intelligence organizations' capabilities." [linkedin.com/company/adelphi-data](https://www.linkedin.com/company/adelphi-data)
- **Work Environment**: Headquarters in New York. Remote/hybrid policy not specified (likely flexible for the right candidates). Roles currently open include Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, and Senior Product Manager. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/adelphi-ai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/adelphi-ai)
- **Technical Focus**: Emphasis on cutting-edge AI, confidential computing, and secure distributed systems – a strong fit for engineers interested in applied cryptography, data infrastructure, and national security technology.

## Sources
1. [adelphi.ai – Home](https://www.adelphi.ai/)
2. [adelphi.ai/team](https://www.adelphi.ai/team)
3. [adelphi.ai/why-adelphi](https://www.adelphi.ai/why-adelphi)
4. [adelphi.ai/fundraise-announcement](https://www.adelphi.ai/fundraise-announcement)
5. [LinkedIn – Adelphi Data](https://www.linkedin.com/company/adelphi-data)
6. [Careers Page – jobs.ashbyhq.com/adelphi-ai](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/adelphi-ai)

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