Product Manager

Alpha Omega is an award-winning Federal IT solutions provider dedicated to delivering mission-enabling technology and strategic solutions across various domains. They are looking for experienced Product Managers who will be responsible for advocating for the product, balancing the needs of the business, users, and technology, and ensuring that the team focuses on the most valuable aspects of the product.

Responsibilities:

• Owns product strategy; Creates and continuously updates an outcome-oriented product roadmap that reflects current product priorities
• Acts as the main conduit of information between the product team and stakeholders; communicates how the product will or does deliver business and user value
• Manages stakeholder expectations
• Prioritize what the product team should focus on by balancing business, user, and product needs
• Identifies, evaluates, and implements mitigations to product risks
• Runs “Lean Experiments” to test product assumptions, with a bias towards running those experiments in user interviews or deployed software environments
• Participates in user research efforts; encourages human-centered design thinking
• Writes small user stories with detailed acceptance criteria that engineers can implement into product features
• Advocates for frequent releases to production; supports continuous delivery by quickly conducting acceptance testing on user stories
• Measures success of features and product value by gathering metrics; values outcomes over outputs
• Facilitates Lean product delivery (Build, Measure, Learn cycle)
• Build
• Writes small user stories with detailed acceptance criteria that engineers can implement into product features
• Advocates for frequent releases to production; supports continuous delivery by quickly conducting acceptance testing on user stories
• Measure
• Measures success of features and product value by gathering metrics; values outcomes over outputs
• Learn
• Participates in user research efforts; encourages human-centered design thinking
• Adjusts strategy, roadmap, and backlog based on learning from user research
• Product strategy and roadmaps
• Owns product strategy; creates and continuously updates an outcome-oriented product roadmap that reflects current product priorities
• Runs “Lean Experiments” to test product assumptions, with a bias towards running those experiments in user interviews or deployed software environments (as opposed to validating those assumptions only with stakeholders or in mock situations)
• Identifies, evaluates, and implements mitigations to product risks
• Prioritization
• Prioritize what the product team should focus on by balancing business, user, and product needs and reassess product priorities frequently
• Stakeholder management
• Acts as the main conduit of information between the product team and stakeholders; communicates how the product will or does deliver business and user value
• Manages stakeholder expectations

Requirements:

• 5 years' experience as a Product Manager &/or Product Designer
• Can distinguish between questions for which they can find the answer, and those that require an expert
• Thinks in small, incremental changes to the product rather than major milestones
• Easily builds trust with product teams and stakeholders
• Can differentiate between stakeholder ideas, business requests, and legal/policy considerations; understands that 'specifications' or 'requirements' are not validated features
• Can understand complex business domains and policy, synthesizes that information quickly and identifies patterns
• Can translate technical considerations to a non-technical audience
• Can identify when a product requires additional resources to achieve business goals and communicates those needs early to leadership
• Intellectually curious and open to learning
• Enjoys making sense of complex domains and wonky policy
• Flexible to changing priorities, especially those based on new policies or executive orders
• Forms strong opinions backed by research, but is open to changing those opinions with new evidence
• Works as a member of a balanced product team rather than as a team manager; enjoys working in a collaborative environment
• Bachelor's Degree
• Active or recent previous DHS experience highly desired