Our client is seeking a Product Manager to join their team! This position is located in McLean, Virginia. This team is looking for an experienced product manager who can play a lead role for key initiatives in the Engineering 360 (E360) team. This team is optimizing developers' focus on creating competitive applications by enabling the tooling and best practices to both deliver code faster and, in the background, drive automation that ensures applications are well managed. As a value stream lead, you will work with the Product Director to build strategy and execution of the vision; work with your team, users and adjacent teams; drive a continuous discovery process, optimizing for user adoption. This Product manager will instill an outcome / result focus approach in the team and alignment with other product and technology leaders to optimize cross team efforts.
Duties:
Immerse yourself in knowing your internal and/or external customer(s) by employing empathy and design thinking to define broad-scale solutions that provide breakthrough leverage
Model adaptability by encouraging continuous evolution to product strategy in light of industry trends, emerging solutions, new insights and changing customer and business needs
Learn the financial drivers, externalities, and points of leverage within your domain to identify new products or product enhancements that drive sustainable value
Responsible for fostering a strong agile discipline and inspiring teams to continuously improve delivery evidenced through key agility metrics
Partner with Technology leaders to influence end-state architecture and drive secure, resilient, performant and scalable technology solutions that solve material customer and business problems
Govern the responsible and efficient application of technology resources by assessing opportunities for reusing existing solutions, clearly defining minimum viable products, and always building with extensibility in mind
Work with your Product Director to establish a long-term product portfolio strategy, informed by customer and business needs, and partner with leaders and stakeholders to regularly drive alignment, secure resources and overcome impediments
Identity developer experience best practices; current gaps and technical constraints
Drive requirements and ultimately partner with IT Delivery, Operations, enterprise teams, and third-party vendors (if relevant) to deliver the optimal developer experience
Embrace Design Thinking and apply lean product and user driven design principles when developing and refining product features and capabilities
Articulate how the activities under your stewardship directly impact the business, and you can ensure that business requirements are translated into automated solutions that get delivered on-time and on-budget
Collaborate with technology, operations, cyber, compliance, and business partners to coordinate and manage resources and activities to maximize impact and overall return on investment
Desired Skills/Experience:
Bachelor's Degree or military experience
3+ years of experience in digital product management
3+ years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products
3+ years of experience in Agile product management