Staff Product Manager, Technical (HHS)

The role

The Staff Product Manager will lead strategy, planning, and execution for enterprise platform optimization and modern digital services. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to turn technical requirements and user needs into delivered outcomes for HHS.

What you will do

• Help federal stakeholders align and make decisions
• Build and own the roadmap for digital services
• Work through technical decisions with engineers
• Translate needs from leadership and government partners into a product vision, objectives, and measures of success
• Ship early prototypes, gather feedback, and iterate quickly
• Write user stories, prioritize the backlog, and build release plans

Required qualifications

• Understand lean product principles
• Can develop a product strategy including success criteria
• Ability to execute product strategy by breaking down scope and maintaining a prioritized backlog
• Understand how to engage in the process of human-centered design
• Ability to collaborate with researchers, designers, engineers, and others
• Ability to manage clients and stakeholders
• Understand the merits of different software development methodologies
• Product experience with data ingestion and normalization across many sources
• Experience working on cross-functional teams in iterative delivery
• A mindset and work approach that aligns with core values
• Some roles require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute
• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-tenant cloud environments, enterprise platform consolidation, tenant rationalization, shared services, or cross-organizational platform adoption
• Experience delivering data and analytics products
• Experience developing or implementing enterprise integration patterns
• Experience taking a prototype or internal tool through production hardening, launch, and ongoing operations
• Experience modernizing legacy applications or replacing manual business processes with digital services
• Experience supporting organizational change, product adoption, migrations, or onboarding to shared technology services
• Experience delivering technology in government, regulated industries, large federated organizations, or other public-benefit settings
• Experience working with federal CIO organizations or enterprise IT organizations
• A track record of staying aligned and accountable on remote teams

Benefits

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
• Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
• Up to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
• Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
• Business development / sales bonuses
• Referral bonuses
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases

Before you apply

• All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship
• You must be able to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance
• You must complete a company background check successfully

About the company

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.