Key skills
CloudMicroservicesPMPGitHubAgileScrumCI/CDLeadershipOKRsProduct ManagementCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Provide product leadership and strategic direction for a cross-functional team supporting the Department of Veteran Affairs
- Lead a highly agile, small cross-functional team responsible for delivering rapid development across multiple workstreams and products
- Adapt quickly, manage shifting priorities, and effectively context switch in a dynamic environment
- Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap while partnering with key stakeholders, clinicians, and end users to deliver high-value capabilities
- Ensure that product investments are aligned to mission objectives, user needs, and measurable outcomes while maintaining transparency, accountability, and continuous value delivery
- Own and prioritize the product backlog to ensure alignment with client needs
- Translate product strategy into well-defined features, epics, and user stories
- Balance new feature development with technical debt, compliance, and operational needs
- Coordinate with client leadership to make trade-off decisions based on impact and risk
- Partner closely with engineering, UX/UI, data, operations, and stakeholder teams to deliver product capabilities
- Lead agile and scrum ceremonies (planning, refinement, demos, retrospectives) to ensure clarity of requirements and alignment to outcomes
- Ensure development efforts align with defined product goals and acceptance criteria
- Serve as the voice of the user and customer, engaging key stakeholders to gather feedback, validate assumptions, and refine priorities
- Communicate product progress, roadmap updates, and outcome metrics to leadership
- Monitor product performance and usage metrics
- Identify opportunities to enhance usability, adoption, and business impact
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, or related roles
- Experience defining and delivering digital products or enterprise software solutions
- Experience working with cross-functional teams in agile environments
- Ability to define the product vision and develop corresponding success metrics (KPIs, OKRs) and use data to drive decision-making
- Experience developing product roadmaps and managing product backlogs
- Familiarity with agile frameworks and methodologies (e.g., SAFe, Scrum)
- Working knowledge of modern system architectures, including APIs, microservices, and cloud-based platforms
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and release management practices
- Experience working with government clients or in regulated environments
- Significant experience with common product delivery and collaboration tools, including GitHub, Mural, Slack, and the Microsoft Office tool suite
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to translate mission needs into clear product requirements
- Demonstrated ability to build alignment and drive decisions across stakeholders without formal authority
- Strong analytical, prioritization, and decision-making skills
- Experience managing product delivery within the VA (preferred)
- Experience leading efforts to modernize legacy systems into cloud-native architectures (preferred)
- Agile or delivery certifications (e.g., PMP, SAFe, CSM) (preferred)
Tech Stack
- Cloud
- Microservices
- PMP
Benefits
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental, & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Family Leave (Maternity & Paternity)
- Training & Development
- Work From Home