Technical Product Manager

Leidos is seeking a Technical Product Manager to lead product strategy, roadmap development, and customer engagement for a secure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution supporting the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command. In this role, you will serve as a key liaison between mission stakeholders and platform engineering, ensuring platform capabilities align with operational priorities while advancing the long-term product vision. You will collaborate closely with mission teams to identify challenges, gather requirements, and translate customer needs into prioritized features that deliver measurable mission value. Working alongside engineering, cybersecurity, and DevSecOps teams, you will help shape product direction, balance competing priorities, and guide the evolution of cloud-native platform capabilities. The ideal candidate combines strong product management experience with a technical understanding of cloud technologies, software engineering, and DevSecOps, along with the ability to influence stakeholders, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and deliver innovative, scalable solutions that support critical national security missions. **This position requires 25% travel** Key Responsibilities Include: Serve as the primary product owner for assigned mission area platform user, representing customer priorities while maintaining alignment with the long-term platform strategy. Lead mission-focused technical engagement with stakeholders to understand operational challenges, gather product requirements, and identify opportunities for new platform capabilities. Develop, maintain, and communicate a prioritized product roadmap that balances mission value, engineering effort, technical debt, security, and operational sustainability. Define product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics that enable engineering teams to deliver high-quality platform capabilities. Partner with platform engineers, software engineers, cybersecurity specialists, and mission stakeholders to evaluate solution alternatives, technical tradeoffs, and implementation approaches. Facilitate product planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and feature prioritization to ensure engineering efforts align with mission objectives. Analyze customer feedback, operational metrics, and platform usage data to continuously improve the developer experience and platform capabilities. Identify recurring customer needs and translate common requirements into scalable platform services that benefit multiple mission teams. Communicate product vision, roadmap priorities, feature status, and release plans to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Ensure delivered capabilities satisfy customer expectations, support platform engineering standards, and contribute to long-term platform evolution. Build trusted relationships across engineering teams and mission stakeholders through technical credibility, transparency, and effective communication. Continuously evaluate industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities that improve platform capabilities and mission outcomes. Expected Outcomes: Improve customer satisfaction by translating operational needs into well-defined, high-value engineering initiatives. Increase engineering effectiveness through clear product requirements, prioritized backlogs, and transparent roadmap management. Strengthen collaboration and trust between mission stakeholders and platform engineering through consistent, mission focused technical engagement. Drive continuous improvement of the platform by balancing customer needs, engineering priorities, operational performance, and strategic platform investments. About the Must Haves Requires BS and 12+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10+ years of prior relevant experience, additional years of experience will be accepted in lieu of a degree. Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible experience designing, building, and operating production platforms. Strong expertise in Azure Cloud Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure. Demonstrated experience managing technical products, platforms, or cloud-native services by defining product strategy, developing roadmaps, prioritizing backlogs, and delivering customer-focused capabilities. Strong technical understanding of modern software development, cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, and platform engineering sufficient to evaluate engineering tradeoffs and effectively partner with technical teams. Demonstrated ability to lead mission focused technical engagement by gathering customer requirements, building trusted relationships, and translating operational needs into actionable product requirements. Experience balancing competing priorities, customer expectations, engineering capacity, security requirements, and long-term platform strategy to maximize mission value. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership, mission stakeholders, and multidisciplinary engineering teams while influencing decisions through technical credibility and sound product judgment. Must have an active Secret security clearance. 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 5, 2026 For 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 - $237,350.00 The 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. About Leidos Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit Pay and Benefits Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at competitive compensation Health and Wellness programs Income Protection Paid Leave and Retirement Securing Your Data Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). 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