Product Manager

Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation that helps government agencies modernize digital services through human-centered design and modern engineering practices. The Product Manager will work with government partners and cross-functional teams to define product direction, prioritize features, ship projects, remove barriers, and measure outcomes for end users and government programs.

Responsibilities:

• Define the vision, goals, and measures of success for the products and services you manage
• Work with designers, business analysts, and technical leads to discover and synthesize market research, user needs, business requirements, and technical approaches
• Define the direction, scope, and priority of projects, from high-level initiatives to specific features, user stories, and business metrics
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop and ship projects
• Proactively socialize, iterate on, and build buy-in for product initiatives with the team, government partners, and other contractors
• Collaborate with the project management team to prioritize roadmaps and inbound units of work
• Represent Nava’s outcome-centric and user-centric approach in discovery meetings with agencies and contractors
• Understand and communicate the needs of end users and population segments we serve and government partners we work with
• Measure product progress toward business goals or user needs and translate data insights into action
• Make tactical decisions to improve the design, define requirements, and generate stakeholder buy-in for our desired path forward

Requirements:

• • At least three (3) years of experience as a Product Manager of a cross-functional team
• • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• • Experience running and/or shipping consumer web applications
• • Ability to generate very strong product plans and build buy-in across the team, our government partners, and other contractors
• • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical, user experience, and project management trade-offs; enthusiastic communicator
• • Strong bias towards action; ability to step up into team gaps and ambiguous situations to structure the team's action plan
• • Ability to execute with incomplete information; great product instincts and an ability to create order from divergent needs
• • Ability to define a product objective and logically reverse engineer the path and communications to achieve the objective
• • Ability to identify market trends and shifts that will affect product direction and update plans based on future expectations
• • An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset
• Legal authorization to work in the United States
• Ability to meet any other requirements for government contracts for which candidates are hired
• Work authorization that doesn't require visa sponsorship, now or in the future
• We have fully remote options if you reside in one of the following states:

Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin

*If you are not living in one of the states listed above, unfortunately, you will not be considered for a position at this time