Senior Product Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Founded in 2007, Initiate Government Solutions (IGS) is a Woman-Owned Small Business and a fully remote IT services provider supporting federal partners nationwide. We deliver innovative Enterprise IT and Health Services solutions with a strong focus on data analytics, health informatics, cloud migration, AI, and the modernization of federal information systems.

Our vision is to be a health IT trendsetter, continuing to solve the nation’s most challenging healthcare IT issues by conceiving, designing, and building solid, creative, and innovative open-source solutions. 

Our mission is to innovate, design, and deliver tailored solutions that balance technical advancement with cost-awareness while providing exceptional service.

IGS is currently recruiting a remote Senior Product Manager to support our work with a federal customer.

Assignment of Work and Travel:

This is a remote access assignment. The Candidate will work remotely daily and will remotely access customer systems and therein use approved customer provided communications systems. Travel is not required; however, the candidate may be required to attend onsite client meetings as requested.

The Senior Product Manager will drive product vision, customer engagement, roadmap planning, and outcome-based delivery while partnering with engineering, architecture, security, analytics, governance, and stakeholders. This role requires expertise in continuous discovery and continuous delivery, Agile product management, customer-centered design, and enterprise platform modernization. The resources will manage complex cloud, data, analytics and AI platform products.

Responsibilities and Duties (Included but not limited to):

• Develop, maintain, and communicate platform roadmaps, product strategies, and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Lead roadmap reviews, product planning sessions, quarterly business reviews, and executive stakeholder briefings.
• Translate customer needs into prioritized product investments and actionable delivery plans.
• Lead continuous discovery efforts through stakeholder interviews, user research, usability testing, surveys, and data-driven insights.
• Champion human-centered design practices consistent with the customer’s Digital Services Playbook and Design System.
• Manage product backlogs, prioritization activities, sprint planning, and release planning.
• Collaborate with engineering and delivery teams to define epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, demos, and Scrum-of-Scrums.
• Create and maintain product documentation including business cases, product briefs, release notes, onboarding materials, and operational guidance; track risks, dependencies, and escalation items across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Present product updates, roadmap progress, business value, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Build strong partnerships across architecture, security, governance, AI/ML, data engineering, and customer enablement teams.
• Align product priorities with evolving business needs and mission objectives.
• Support initiatives focused on cloud analytics, data engineering, data governance, data quality, AI, and machine learning.
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• 8+ years of Product Management experience, including enterprise software or platform products. 
• Demonstrated expertise in continuous discovery and continuous delivery methodologies. 
• Experience leading Agile product teams and managing complex product roadmaps. 
• Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks, DevOps practices, CI/CD principles, and modern software development lifecycles. 
• Experience developing and tracking OKRs, KPIs, and outcome-based performance metrics. 
• Experience conducting customer research, stakeholder interviews, and usability testing. 
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills. 
• Proven ability to manage priorities across multiple cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust 
• Ability to work in the United States without sponsorship 

Preferred Qualifications and Core Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field highly desirable
• Experience working on federal government digital transformation initiatives. 
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or other cloud environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise data platforms, data governance, analytics, AI/ML, and modern data architectures. 
• Experience with healthcare, population health, customer experience, or large-scale data modernization programs. 
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Manager/Product Owner, PMP, or equivalent certification. 
• Familiarity with the U.S. Digital Services Playbook and human-centered design practices.
• Prior experience supporting federal agencies, specifically health IT 
• Prior, successful experience working in a remote environment
• Active Public Trust 

Successful IGS employees embody the following Core Values:

• Integrity, Honesty, and Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest level of ethics. Doing things like being accountable for mistakes, accepting helpful criticism, and following through on commitments to ourselves, each other, and our customers.
• Empathy, Emotional Intelligence : How we interact with others including peers, colleagues, stakeholders, and customers’ matters. We take collective responsibility to create an environment where colleagues and customers feel valued, included, and respected. We work within a diverse, integrated, and collaborative team to drive towards accomplishing the larger mission. We conscientiously and meticulously learn about our customers’ and end-users’ business drivers and challenges to ensure solutions meet not only technical needs but also support their mission.
• Strong Work Ethic (Reliability, Dedication, Productivity): We are driven by a strong, self-motivated, and results-driven work ethic. We are reliable, accountable, proactive, and tenacious and will do what it takes to get the job done. 
• Life-Long Learner (Curious, Perspective, Goal Oriented): We challenge ourselves to continually learn and improve ourselves. We strive to be an expert in our field, continuously honing our craft, and finding solutions where others see problems.

Compensation: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary, including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.

Benefits: Initiate Government Solutions offers competitive compensation and a robust benefits package, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care, matching 401K and profit sharing, paid time off, training time for personal development, flexible spending accounts, employer-paid life insurance, employer-paid short and long term disability coverage, an education assistance program with potential merit increases for obtaining a work-related certification, employee recognition, and referral programs, spot bonuses, and other benefits that help provide financial protection for the employee and their family.

Initiate Government Solutions participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program.