Senior Product Manager

SAIC • El Paso, TX

17h

About The Position

The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for the product strategy and backlog for Clinical Decision Support Applications within the Department of Veterans Affairs. This role involves balancing regulatory objectives, compliance requirements, technical feasibility, and business value within a Scaled Agile framework. The position requires hands-on Agile leadership, including writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and performing functional testing. The Senior Product Manager will oversee a cross-functional Scrum team, lead planning and synchronization ceremonies, and collaborate with engineering on technical requirements, system architecture, API integrations, and embedding security and accessibility. A key aspect of this role is stakeholder alignment across various federal agency departments, committees, boards, executives, and subcontracting partners, ensuring transparency and alignment through clear communication of progress, milestones, and metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree and 5+ years of experience as a digital Product Manager leading platform modernizations or large-scale digital transformations.
• Experience specifically within iterative, highly regulated, multi-vendor agile environments.
• Proven ability to bridge high-level policy goals with granular technical specifications (e.g., APIs, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code).
• Effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Must be a citizen of the United States.
• Ability to pass a Public Trust background check.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and backlog, balancing regulatory objectives, compliance requirements, technical feasibility, and business value within a Scaled Agile framework (including PI planning).
• Write user stories, clarify complex business rules, define acceptance criteria, and perform functional testing to maintain team momentum.
• Oversee a cross-functional Scrum team (Human-Centered Design, Engineering, QA), leading planning and synchronization ceremonies to ensure high-velocity delivery.
• Partner with engineering to define technical requirements, evaluate system architecture trade-offs, guide API integrations, and embed security, accessibility (Section 508), and automation into the product.
• Build consensus across federal agency departments, committees, boards, executives, and subcontracting partners; communicate progress, milestones, and metrics to ensure full transparency and alignment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior