About the position
As a Staff Product Manager at Primer, you will be responsible for guiding products from ideation to launch for large enterprises. Your role will involve understanding customer needs, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and managing innovation within delivery deadlines. You will play a crucial role in setting strategy, prioritizing requirements, and delivering mission-ready AI solutions that help agencies protect us. Additionally, you will need to inspire teams, have a clear executive-aligned strategy, and possess excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Work with customers, the business, and engineering to set strategy and collect and prioritize requirements
- Work with data scientists, machine learning engineers, software engineers, and designers to build products that delight customers
- Work with the prototyping team to propose and build innovative ideas in SBIRs or RFPs
- Build trust with teams and customers to understand their workflows and deliver mission-ready practical AI solutions
- Think widely about potential applications of machine learning and natural language processing techniques and translate them into business value for customers
- Inspire engineer/design teams and have a clear executive-aligned strategy for product growth areas
- Understand customer needs and convert them into differentiated capabilities in the market
- Collaborate across multiple cross-functional teams with a common language of the customer
- Set strategic direction, prioritize, and articulate the rationale behind decisions
- Build and share a representative and empathetic understanding of customers
- Excellent writing and communication skills to collaborate with engineering, business teams, and executives
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and influencing skills
- Take initiative and build strong, productive relationships
- Transition between drafting product requirements and leading engineering and design teams to make them a reality
- Travel to customer sites or the DC office for customer and team meetings
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
- 5+ years of product management for a technology company (bonus for experience with enterprise software)
- Demonstrated success in delivering new products and features
- Ability to set strategic direction, prioritize, and articulate the rationale behind decisions
- Ability to build and share a representative and empathetic understanding of customers
- Excellent writing and communication skills to bring along engineering, business teams, and executives
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and influencing skills, with proven ability to take initiative and build strong, productive relationships
- Ability to transition between drafting product requirements and leading engineering and design team to make product requirements a reality
- Ability to travel to the customer site or to the DC office for customer & team meetings
- Eligible for a TS clearance (bonus point)
- Familiarity with the DoD or IC acquisitions process (bonus point)
- Preferred experience working with Data Scientists (bonus point)
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Fertility benefits through Carrot
- Mental health coverage on demand with Ginger
- 401(k) (US employees)
- Remote work stipends
- Monthly internet allowance
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Wellness Days
- 100% paid leave for parents of growing families
- Series D funded company with reputable investors
- Intentional focus on building a diverse and inclusive team
- Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer
- Accommodation for disabilities available
- Consideration for employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records