Principal Technical Product Manager — Civic Tech, Remote

Skylight; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with match

Flexible PTO and holidays

Remote-friendly work environment

Job summary

Skylight is seeking a technical product manager to shape strategy for legacy modernization projects with the U.S. Air Force and other government partners.

You’ll own the direction, translate user needs into a compelling roadmap, and balance architecture, integrations, and migration tradeoffs while collaborating with researchers, designers, and engineers. You’ll lead in an agile, remote-friendly environment, guiding backlog and release planning, and mentoring government partners to sustain

Qualifications

• Understand lean product principles and how to apply them (e.g., minimum viable product) at various stages of the product life cycle to mitigate risk, validate assumptions, and amplify learning
• Can develop a product strategy that is informed by the problem to be solved, prioritizes outcomes over feature sets, and establishes the direction of the product over time (e.g., product roadmap)
• Ability to execute the product strategy by breaking down the scope into usable chunks of value and maintaining a prioritized backlog with validated user stories

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, engineers, and SMEs to build and ship high-impact products and services
• Translate needs from users and government partners into a product strategy, including vision, objectives, measures of success, roadmaps, and backlog
• Manage direction, scope, and priorities of the modernization effort, weighing architecture and migration tradeoffs alongside user needs
• Write user stories, prioritize stories, and build release plans
• Work with government teams to transfer digital skills and product knowledge
• Pave the way for intuitive processes by navigating bureaucratic challenges

Skills

Lean product principles

Product strategy

Backlog management

Human-centered design

Stakeholder management

Agile/lean methodologies

Technical fluency

Mentoring Gov partners

Cross-functional teamwork

Values alignment

Job description

Skylight is seeking a technical product manager to shape strategy for legacy modernization projects with the U.S. Air Force and other government partners.

You’ll own the direction, translate user needs into a compelling roadmap, and balance architecture, integrations, and migration tradeoffs while collaborating with researchers, designers, and engineers. You’ll lead in an agile, remote-friendly environment, guiding backlog and release planning, and mentoring government partners to sustain