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Overview

Company

Original Job Post

Alpha Omega · 2 days ago

Product Manager

Vienna, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Owns product strategy; Creates and continuously updates an outcome-oriented product roadmap that reflects current product priorities

Acts as the main conduit of information between the product team and stakeholders; communicates how the product will or does deliver business and user value

Manages stakeholder expectations

Prioritize what the product team should focus on by balancing business, user, and product needs

Identifies, evaluates, and implements mitigations to product risks

Runs “Lean Experiments” to test product assumptions, with a bias towards running those experiments in user interviews or deployed software environments

Participates in user research efforts; encourages human-centered design thinking

Writes small user stories with detailed acceptance criteria that engineers can implement into product features

Advocates for frequent releases to production; supports continuous delivery by quickly conducting acceptance testing on user stories

Measures success of features and product value by gathering metrics; values outcomes over outputs

Qualification

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Product ManagementProduct DesignStakeholder ManagementBusiness Domain UnderstandingTechnical TranslationResource ManagementProblem-SolvingTrust BuildingCommunicationAdaptabilityCuriosityCollaboration

Required

5 years’ experience as a Product Manager &/or Product Designer

Can distinguish between questions for which they can find the answer, and those that require an expert

Lean Mindset: Thinks in small, incremental changes to the product rather than major milestones

Easily builds trust with product teams and stakeholders

Can differentiate between stakeholder ideas, business requests, and legal/policy considerations; understands that “specifications” or “requirements” are not validated features

Can understand complex business domains and policy, synthesizes that information quickly and identifies patterns

Can translate technical considerations to a non-technical audience

Can identify when a product requires additional resources to achieve business goals and communicates those needs early to leadership

Intellectually curious and open to learning

Enjoys making sense of complex domains and wonky policy

Flexible to changing priorities, especially those based on new policies or executive orders

Forms strong opinions backed by research, but is open to changing those opinions with new evidence

Works as a member of a balanced product team rather than as a team manager; enjoys working in a collaborative environment