Federal AI Programs Product Manager (Remote)

Info Gain Consulting; Virginia (MN); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Info Gain Consulting seeks a Product Manager to lead planning, coordination, and delivery of a federal AI engineering program. You will oversee Agile delivery, manage scope, schedule, risks, and reporting, and serve as the primary liaison between technical teams and stakeholders in a joint government-contractor setting.

The role requires hands-on grounding in software development, cloud, and DevOps to coordinate AI, ML, and full-stack work, ensuring quality and timely delivery across enterprise

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of progressively responsible experience managing complex technical, software, cloud, data, AI, or digital-transformation programs.
• Experience supervising multidisciplinary technical and administrative teams.
• Experience leading Agile ceremonies and using Jira or comparable tools.
• Experience with program schedules, risks, issues, quality assurance, deliverables, stakeholder communications, and formal customer acceptance.
• Experience coordinating subcontractors.
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior technical and executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated coding proficiency and hands-on experience contributing to front-end, back-end, or full-stack software development.
• Experience working with DevOps practices, cloud-computing environments, infrastructure, web development, and software architecture.
• Experience building front-end solutions using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, including libraries such as React or comparable front-end libraries.

Responsibilities

• Direct, administer, and evaluate complex programs, policies, procedures, projects, and technical initiatives.
• Manage complex and potentially high-risk technology programs.
• Direct daily staff activities and task execution to meet customer and corporate objectives.
• Supervise assigned technical and administrative personnel, including subordinate leads or managers when applicable.
• Ensure the quality, timeliness, completeness, and acceptance readiness of products, services, reports, and deliverables.
• Participate in quality reviews, audits, technical demonstrations, assessments, site visits, and customer meetings.
• Establish and facilitate all required Agile ceremonies.
• Maintain Jira or other customer-provided project and product-management tools.
• Serve as the primary liaison for coordinating activities, negotiating tasks, resolving issues, and communicating decisions.
• Build and maintain cooperative working relationships among senior federal stakeholders, program offices, technical teams, subcontractors, and delivery partners.
• Coordinate and monitor subcontractor activities when subcontractors are used.
• Implement a risk- and oversight-based management approach throughout all phases of performance.
• Identify risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints; recommend mitigation or corrective action; and maintain timely, accurate records.
• Coordinate IT consultants, AI solution architects, developers, engineers, data scientists, security personnel, and other stakeholders.
• Translate strategic objectives, roadmaps, business requirements, and customer priorities into executable plans and future-state technical capabilities.
• Develop, interpret, and implement policies and procedures relevant to the program.
• Provide leadership, coordination, and authoritative recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Manage backlogs, sprint plans, integrated schedules, milestones, dependencies, acceptance criteria, action items, decisions, and deliverables.
• Prepare and maintain integrated schedules, sprint reports, weekly reports, monthly reports, quality reports, risk and issue registers, communications materials, and stakeholder reviews, including acceptance and revision cycles.
• Oversee accessibility (Section 508) planning, testing, remediation, and documentation, and ensure accessibility work is included in sprint and release planning.
• Ensure recommendations reflect the customer’s approved architecture, current capabilities, security requirements, and existing work in progress rather than generic industry recommendations made in isolation.
• Coordinate ongoing demonstrations and stakeholder feedback throughout development.
• Support AI use-case intake, feasibility analysis, prioritization, cost and schedule estimation, and product-lifecycle management.

Skills

Agile delivery

Stakeholder communication

Front-end development

Back-end development

Full-stack development

DevOps

Cloud platforms

Risk management

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's or master's in computer science/AI/software engineering/IT/data science

Tools

Jira

Job description

Info Gain Consulting seeks a Product Manager to lead planning, coordination, and delivery of a federal AI engineering program. You will oversee Agile delivery, manage scope, schedule, risks, and reporting, and serve as the primary liaison between technical teams and stakeholders in a joint government-contractor setting.

The role requires hands-on grounding in software development, cloud, and DevOps to coordinate AI, ML, and full-stack work, ensuring quality and timely delivery across enterprise