Senior Product Manager - Cloud

The Squires Group•Washington, DC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Product Manager will lead the strategy, development, and delivery of a cloud-based research computing platform supporting economic research. The role partners with researchers, engineering, security, data, and business stakeholders to drive product success from concept through launch. The position is onsite in Washington, DC, and candidates must be U.S. citizens. The onsite requirement is not flexible. The product manager owns the platform roadmap, translates researcher needs into product specifications and priorities, leads product discovery, and balances near-term delivery with long-term platform strategy. They establish success metrics and improve the platform using usage data, performance information, and user feedback, while communicating product direction, progress, risks, and tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Requirements

At least 10 years of technical product management experience.
At least 4 years working directly with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP in a product or engineering capacity.
Experience must include technical product management; project or program management experience alone is not sufficient.
Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and services, including compute, storage, networking, security, containers, orchestration, and related cloud technologies.
Hands-on experience with system design for cloud-based applications and platforms.
Strong knowledge of platform engineering principles, including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, monitoring, and automated delivery practices.
Strong understanding of modern AI-based development workflows and technologies.
Demonstrated success delivering enterprise or research and development-focused products from initial concept through launch.
Experience working with security and compliance teams and navigating data governance, access controls, risk reviews, and related security processes.
Ability to collaborate across engineering, security, data, business, and end-user stakeholder groups.
Demonstrated experience developing product strategy, roadmaps, priorities, and long-term vision for enterprise platforms.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to engage technical, business, and executive-level stakeholders effectively.
Ability to work onsite in Washington, DC; this requirement is not flexible.
Must be a U.S. citizen.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting academic or research-based workflows is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for a cloud-based research computing platform supporting economic research.
Collaborate with researchers across economic divisions to gather requirements and translate user needs into product specifications, priorities, and solutions.
Understand user needs, pain points, workflows, and use cases to guide product prioritization and solution development.
Partner with architecture, cloud engineering, enterprise data platform, security, and platform delivery teams to design and develop a scalable platform that meets researcher needs while maintaining data governance and security.
Lead product discovery, including user research, journey mapping, workflow analysis, and requirements gathering.
Work autonomously while maintaining cross-functional alignment and accountability for timely delivery of outcomes and deliverables.
Balance near-term product delivery with long-term platform strategy to support scalable, sustainable solutions.
Establish product success metrics and evaluate, iterate on, and improve the platform based on usage data, performance, and user feedback.
Manage stakeholder expectations and establish consistent processes for communicating product information, updates, priorities, and project status.
Communicate product vision, roadmap, progress, priorities, risks, and tradeoffs to technical, non-technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
Work cross-functionally with engineering, security, data, researchers, and business stakeholders to drive product outcomes from conception through launch.