Technical Product Manager

Parsons•Herndon, VA

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About The Position

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Technical Product Manager with successful experience driving technical excellence in the areas of product management, program execution, and business growth. We are looking for someone with an entrepreneurial mindset to work with our existing customers and new customer clients, developing advanced solutions to very challenging communications systems, electronic warfare (EW), Digital Signal Processing (DSP), and signals intelligence (SIGINT) problems. The successful Technical Product/Program Manager will need to have an engineering background and able to contribute with technical development work and lead technical designs (i.e. this is not a non-technical/operations/project management centric position)

Requirements

8+ years of relevant experience with minimum 3+ years as a Technical Program or Product Manager
Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience (2 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree)
Experience working as a solutions architect for an EW and/or software centric products and/or programs
Ability to work in a dynamic environment with multiple priorities, customers, and teams
Demonstrated leadership and successful execution of small multi-disciplinary technical teams and projects
Experience writing technical reports and documentation
Experience in EW, SIGINT, DSP, and/or communications systems as a technical or programmatic leader
US citizenship is required.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in a Research and Development environment
Ability to operate independently from the core team while providing frequent communications and updates
Current Top Secret w/ SCI eligible Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

Lead technical aspects of product lifecycles, solutioning, and designing of EW capabilities (hardware and software).
Ability to gather and analyze requirements from industry and end customers to develop technical roadmap and product strategy that results in marketing leading products.
Lead diverse, multi-disciplinary teams to achieve program objectives on time and budget.
Be the key interface to our customers and the executive team to provide reports and status on projects.
Ensure program milestones are achieved and program risk is managed.
Develop innovative technical concepts and solutions for advanced systems across multiple technical disciplines (hardware, real-time software, signal processing, integration and test) and multiple mission areas.
Meet with client decision makers to describe our existing capabilities and to help shape future opportunities.
Represent the business and our products to key customer relationships.
Provide technical support as needed to ensure customer satisfaction and work with our technical teams to communicate issues and resolutions with customers.
Manage a multi-disciplinary, geographically diverse engineering team to include projects with multiple subcontractors
Lead the team and ensure the production and delivery of a wide array of contract deliverables
Manage cost, schedule, and performance for a diverse set of tasks being performed by staff from multiple technical and non-technical disciplines
Work closely with Government customers to maintain and grow our business
Communicate project status to customers and the Parsons executive team
Perform market research to qualify new business opportunities, including analysis of customer budget, capabilities required, current customer preferences, competitive environment assessments, and incumbent strengths and weaknesses.
Coordinate meetings with customers, competitors, clients, and partners to develop market insight on requirements, acquisition strategy, acquisition timing, and contract vehicle choices.
Interact routinely with Operating Group leads, functional managers, technical staff, and customers.