Product Manager

Alpha Omega Integration • Vienna, VA

27d • $120,000 - $135,000 • Remote

About The Position

Alpha Omega is looking for experienced Product Managers to join our team. On the team, it is traditionally the responsibility of the product manager to be the voice of the business. In this case, the “business” is most likely RAIO. Due to the projects close relationship with colleagues at RAIO IDEA, product teams often have close collaboration with a representative(s) of the business. Therefore, the projects Product Managers are less needed to voice the needs of the business and more needed to balance the needs of the business, users, and technology. This balancing of business, user, and technology needs constitutes whole product thinking . Product Managers are ultimately responsible for advocating for the product. They are more concerned about whether the team is building the right software to solve the right problem than if what they are building is “on schedule” or meeting requirements. Product Managers constantly ask themselves the question, “Is my team focusing on the most valuable thing for the product?” Role: 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

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
• Lean Mindset : 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

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Active or recent previous DHS experience highly desired

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
• Adjusts strategy, roadmap, and backlog based on learning from user research

Benefits

• PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave
• Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company’s holiday schedule each year)
• Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage under the HDHP health plan)
• Life Insurance, STD/LTD term disability coverage, with employer paid premiums
• 401 (k) plan with a match that is 100% vested after you complete two years of service
• FSA/DFSA/HSA flexible benefit plans
• Annual Tuition & Professional Development Reimbursement benefit

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees