Head of Security Product Management

T. is partnering with Expression to find a Product Manager. Expression is seeking a Product Manager to join their Product Team. This role is critical for the intersection of product, engineering, and client engagement, supporting the development and evolution of Expression's Agentic AI platform. This platform enables enterprise customers-particularly within National Security and Federal Civilian sectors-to move from generative AI that "chats" to trusted and verifiable systems that "act."

This role is responsible for building, delivering, and continuously improving product capabilities while working closely with stakeholders, customers, and cross-functional teams. You'll be embedded in a cross-functional product pod alongside frontend and backend engineers, AI engineering, QA/test, DevSecOps, design, and technical writing. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Washington DC, Expression provides data fusion, data analytics, software engineering, information technology, and electromagnetic spectrum management solutions to the U.Department of Defense, Department of State, and national security community. Expression's "Perpetual Innovation" culture focuses on creating immediate and sustainable value for their clients via agile delivery of tailored solutions built through constant engagement with their clients. Expression was ranked #1 on the Washington Technology 2018's Fast 50 list of fastest growing small business Government contractors and a Top 20 Big Data Solutions Provider by CIO Review.

Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for your area of the platform.

Solicit, refine, and prioritize requirements from current and prospective customers, the Expression executive team, and other internal stakeholders

Define, prioritize, and deliver end-to-end product features supporting the Agentic AI platform

Take full ownership of features from concept through production, including testing, deployment, and monitoring

Track and drive improvements to product performance and reliability through metrics and partnership with engineering

Translate customer and business needs into clear product requirements with documented trade-offs

Contribute to backlog refinement, sprint planning, and agile ceremonies

Customer Engagement & Implementation

Collaborate directly with clients to support implementation and adoption of the platform

Participate in product demonstrations and technical discussions with current and potential customers

Support deployment and customization efforts in mission environments

Platform Evolution & Innovation

Contribute to the design and influence the evolution of core platform architecture and components

Influence system scalability, reliability, and performance improvements

Track emerging AI tools, techniques, and research, and surface promising candidates for evaluation and potential platform integration

Data, AI, and System Design

Drive product direction for vector search systems and vector database integration

Shape product strategy for LLM-based applications targeted at enterprise use

Ensure efficient data flows and integration across platform components

Define and prioritize requirements for evaluation frameworks, agent behavior monitoring, and red-teaming.

Champion practices that make agentic AI verifiable to customers - explainability, auditability, and traceability of agent actions.

Work closely with engineering, design, marketing, business development, infrastructure, and security teams

Balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability in engineering decisions

Advocate for the end user through thoughtful feature design and implementation

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

• 8+ years of progressive product management experience, ideally in federal IT or enterprise software environments.
• Familiarity with vector search systems and vector databases
• Experience shaping product strategy for LLM-based applications
• Familiarity with Docker and cloud-native environments (AWS and/or Azure)
• Active Secret clearance or above ideal but not required
• SAFe POPM (Product Owner/Product Manager), CSPO, or Pragmatic Institute certification.

Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

Technical familiarity with modern data platforms (SQL, NoSQL, data lakes).

Direct experience working with or within public sector organizations (Federal civilian, DoD, intelligence community).

Hands-on software development experience.

What Success Looks Like: In your first 6 months, you'll build deep working relationships across engineering, design, and customers; By the end of your first year, you'll have shipped meaningful improvements to platform adoption and reliability backed by clear metrics, surfaced emerging customer needs that influence the broader platform roadmap, and delivered at least one major new capability that materially expands what customers can accomplish. $150,000 - $180,000 a year We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.