Product Manager

Leidos has an opportunity for a senior Product Manager supporting our Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services (ACSS) contract. The ACSS Product Manager operates at the program / capability level within the Agile construct. This role directly supports the Government Cloud One PM by translating mission needs, customer priorities, operational pain points, and strategic objectives into a clear roadmap, program backlog, and prioritized set of initiatives, epics, and features.The Product Manager is responsible for ensuring the program is building the right capabilities, in the right order, for the right mission outcomes. They work across Product Owners, technical leads, business owners, stakeholders, and external partner teams to align priorities, manage dependencies, prepare work for execution, and ensure delivered capabilities meet the intent of the Government and the needs of Cloud One users.Because this role supports the Government PM, the Product Manager should recommend, coordinate, and manage execution alignment, while ensuring final prioritization and direction remain with the Government.The Cloud One ACSS Product Manager is responsible for managing the program-level product roadmap and backlog in support of the Government Cloud One PM. The Product Manager coordinates across Product Owners, technical teams, business owners, and stakeholders to translate Cloud One priorities into executable initiatives, epics, and features. This role ensures work is aligned to mission value, properly sequenced, ready for PI planning, and traceable from stakeholder need through delivery and validation.The Product Manager does not replace Product Owners or Scrum Masters. Product Owners manage team-level backlogs and story execution, while Scrum Masters facilitate Agile execution and remove impediments. The Product Manager provides the program-level connective tissue that aligns strategy, priorities, dependencies, and outcomes across the broader ACSS delivery organization.Primary Responsibilities:Maintain the ACSS product vision and roadmap in coordination with the Government PM, Technical Director, Product Owners, and key stakeholders.Manage the program-level backlog, including initiatives, epics, priorities, dependencies, target dates, and delivery status.Translate Government priorities into executable work, ensuring initiatives and epics are clearly defined, scoped, sequenced, and aligned to mission value.Coordinate across Product Owners, helping ensure team-level backlogs align to the broader ACSS roadmap and program priorities.Support prioritization decisions using value, urgency, dependency, risk, capacity, and funding considerations, including WSJF where appropriate.Drive PI planning and planning readiness, including roadmap review, priority alignment, dependency identification, and preparation of top initiatives for execution.Validate that delivered capabilities meet intent, participating in demos, reviews, and stakeholder feedback sessions to determine whether outcomes satisfy the need.Maintain visibility of cross-team dependencies and blockers, ensuring actions are assigned, tracked, and driven to closure.Coordinate with Business Owners, Government stakeholders, and external partners to ensure alignment on expected outcomes, schedule impacts, and delivery priorities.Run Product Management and PO sync meetings, using those forums to maintain roadmap alignment, resolve priority conflicts, and surface decisions needed from the Government PM.Basic Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience, including experience supporting complex technical, cloud, software, or IT programs.5+ years of Program or Product Management, Product Ownership, or equivalent Agile leadership experience managing capabilities across multiple delivery teams.Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with Government customers, technical teams, and senior leadership.Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining product roadmaps and program-level backlogs, including initiatives, epics, features, priorities, dependencies, and delivery milestones.Experience translating customer, mission, and stakeholder needs into prioritized and executable technical work.Demonstrated experience working across Product Owners, engineering teams, technical leadership, business owners, and senior stakeholders to align priorities and delivery outcomes.Working knowledge of Agile and scaled Agile practices, including PI planning, backlog refinement, prioritization, dependency management, demonstrations/reviews, and iterative delivery.Experience preparing initiatives, epics, and features for execution, including defining business/mission value, desired outcomes, scope, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and measures of success.Experience facilitating cross-team planning and prioritization and identifying decisions, risks, dependencies, and blockers requiring leadership attention.Ability to evaluate competing priorities using factors such as mission value, urgency, risk, dependencies, capacity, schedule, and funding.Ability to operate effectively in an environment where the Product Manager develops recommendations and drives alignment while Government leadership retains final prioritization and decision authority.Must have an active Secret Clearance.Preferred Qualifications:Experience supporting DoD, Department of the Air Force, or other Federal Government software, cloud, or digital modernization programs.Experience managing products or capabilities in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or other enterprise cloud environments.Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud security, platform engineering, or enterprise cloud operations.Experience applying SAFe or comparable scaled Agile frameworks in a multi-team environment.Experience using WSJF or similar economic prioritization methods to support program-level decision-making.Experience with Gitlab Project Management, Jira, Jira Align, Confluence, or comparable Agile/product management tooling.Experience developing and facilitating PI Planning, roadmap reviews, Product Management/PO synchronization, and executive-level product reviews.Demonstrated ability to establish traceability from stakeholder or mission need through initiative, epic, feature, delivery, and outcome validation.Experience defining and using product metrics, KPIs, OKRs, or other outcome-based measures to evaluate whether delivered capabilities achieved their intended value.Product Management or Agile certification such as SAFe Product Manager/Product Owner, CSPO, PSPO, PMP/PMI-ACP, or equivalent.Relevant cloud certification from AWS, Microsoft Azure, or comparable provider.If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.Original Posting:August 21, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.Pay Range:Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.SummaryLocation: Concord, MAType: Full time