Staff Product Manager – Technical, HHS

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the strategy, planning, execution, stakeholder engagement, and overall team well-being for product initiatives.

• Collaborate with researchers, designers, engineers, client stakeholders, and other parties to guide product decisions.

• Provide clarity and direction to ambiguous digital modernization efforts within HHS.

• Enhance enterprise platform efficiency by identifying common needs, shaping integration strategies, developing scalable patterns, and promoting shared-service adoption.

• Oversee modern digital services and applications from the discovery phase and prototypes through to enterprise-scale implementation and continuous operations.

• Manage one or more workstreams, balancing strategic product leadership with hands-on execution.

• Define enterprise platform strategies and facilitate discovery processes with HHS Divisions.

• Transform operational challenges into product roadmaps and steer prototypes towards production readiness.

• Drive the ongoing enhancement of existing digital services.

• Assist federal stakeholders in aligning their efforts and making informed decisions.

• Develop and maintain roadmaps for digital services, evolving them from prototypes into essential products for HHS and its Divisions.

• Collaborate with engineers on technical decision-making processes.

• Convert leadership and government partner requirements into a clear product vision, objectives, and metrics for success.

• Release early prototypes, solicit feedback, and iterate rapidly.

• Craft user stories, manage backlog priorities, and create release plans.

⛳️ Requirements

• Familiarity with lean product principles and their application, including the concept of minimum viable product throughout the product life cycle.

• Ability to formulate product strategies that resolve issues, prioritize results, craft roadmaps, and establish criteria for success.

• Implement product strategies through effective scope definition, prioritized backlogs, validated user stories, and team ceremonies.

• Knowledge of human-centered design principles and their application.

• Collaborate effectively with researchers, designers, engineers, and other disciplines.

• Manage client relationships and stakeholders to foster trust, alignment, and positive team dynamics.

• Proficient in applying agile and lean software development methodologies.

• Experience with data ingestion and normalization across APIs, batch exports, and streaming solutions.

• Technical proficiency to navigate trade-offs in warehouse and data modeling with data engineers.

• Background in cross-functional teams involving product, design, engineering, and operations in iterative delivery contexts.

• Prior experience in multi-tenant cloud environments, enterprise platform consolidation, shared services, or cross-organizational platform adoption is advantageous.

• Familiarity with delivering data and analytics products, covering APIs, data pipelines, warehouses or lakehouses, data modeling, and access controls is beneficial.

• Understanding of enterprise integration patterns, identity and access management, single sign-on, APIs, and data-sharing workflows is a plus.

• Experience in transitioning prototypes or internal tools through production hardening, launch, and ongoing operation phases is a bonus.

• Proven experience in modernizing legacy applications or replacing manual business processes with digital services is an asset.

• Support for organizational change, product adoption, migrations, or onboarding to shared technology services is desirable.

• Experience in delivering technology solutions in government, regulated industries, large federated organizations, or public-benefit settings is a plus.

• Familiarity with federal CIO or enterprise IT organizations is advantageous.

• Ability to maintain alignment and accountability on remote teams is a plus.

• All work must be performed within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories.

• Must possess legal authorization to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.

• Completion of a company background check is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance options.

• Life insurance and AD&D coverage.

• Flexible spending accounts for dependent care and healthcare, as well as a health savings account.

• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period.

• Flexible paid time-off policy (approximately 25 days per year), in addition to 11 paid federal holidays.

• Up to 12 weeks of paid time off for all eligible new parents, whether through birth, adoption, or foster care.

• Performance incentives, including annual salary reviews, bonuses, spot bonuses, and stock options.

• Incentives for business development and sales efforts.

• Referral bonuses available.

• Annual allowance of $2,000 for professional development opportunities.

• Annual allowance of $750 for technology-related purchases.

• Annual swag budget of $100 to showcase your Skylight pride with branded merchandise (such as hoodies, hats, and more).

• A flexible, remote-friendly work environment.

• An empowering atmosphere that encourages you to harness your superpowers for public good.