Project/Product Manager

Unissant•Ashburn, VA

13h•Remote

About The Position

Unissant, Inc. is seeking a Project/Product Manager to join their team and support their client, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This is a remote position. The ideal candidate is an experienced IT product and program leader who can direct delivery across a complex enterprise artificial intelligence portfolio. This individual will coordinate FEMA stakeholders, product owners, solution teams, and subcontractor personnel to deliver secure, production-ready AI capabilities through Agile and System/Software Engineering Life Cycle processes.

Requirements

Five (5) to ten (10) years of experience managing complex IT, software-development, AI/ML, or cloud-modernization programs.
Experience managing Agile delivery, product backlogs, sprint cycles, integrated schedules, risk management, and executive reporting.
Experience coordinating cross-functional teams delivering cloud-hosted, data-driven, or AI-enabled applications.
Working knowledge of front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Strong stakeholder-management, facilitation, communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field required.
U.S. Citizenship is required.
Favorably adjudicated FEMA Public Trust suitability is required before the employee's start date.
Must complete applicable DHS/FEMA security awareness, privacy, OPSEC, insider-threat, unauthorized-disclosure, and FOUO/CUI safeguarding training.

Nice To Haves

PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, Product Owner, or comparable Agile/project-management certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Direct day-to-day program execution, including staffing, schedule, quality, risk, dependencies, and stakeholder coordination for complex AI initiatives.
Lead Agile ceremonies; manage sprint backlogs and the integrated master schedule using JIRA and FEMA-provided management tools.
Establish and operate a Joint Development Team model that enables continuous product-owner engagement, work-in-progress demonstrations, and documented Government feedback.
Produce and maintain required program artifacts, including weekly work reports, sprint planning, performance and retrospective reports, monthly status reports, communications plans, risk and issue registers, and executive-level reporting.
Coordinate AI solution architects, engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity personnel, subcontractors, and FEMA program offices to translate mission needs into prioritized releases.
Ensure recommendations and delivery plans align to FEMA's current architecture, operating environment, security requirements, and future enterprise capability goals.
Manage subcontractor performance, staffing continuity, quality assurance, and timely completion of all deliverables.
Communicate program status, decisions, delivery risks, and mitigation strategies to technical and executive stakeholders.