Alpha Omega is looking for experienced Product Managers to balance the needs of the business, users, and technology, ensuring the team is building the right software to solve the right problem.
Requirements
- 5 years’ experience as a Product Manager &/or Product Designer
- Lean Mindset: Thinks in small, incremental changes to the product rather than major milestones
- 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
- Forms strong opinions backed by research, but is open to changing those opinions with new evidence
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
- 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
- Writes small user stories with detailed acceptance criteria that engineers can implement into product features
- Measures success of features and product value by gathering metrics; values outcomes over outputs
Other
- DHS Public Trust EOD (Secret or above preferred)
- Remote
- Easily builds trust with product teams and stakeholders
- Intellectually curious and open to learning
- Enjoys making sense of complex domains and wonky policy
