Product Manager II (U.S. Air Force)

Skylight; United States; A distancia; USD 150.000 - 185.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical/Dental/Vision

Disability insurance

Life and AD&D

FSAs & HSA

401(k) match

Paid time off ~25 days

11 paid federal holidays

Professional development allowance

Tech purchases allowance

Skylight swag budget

Remote-friendly environment

Descripción de la vacante

Skylight, a digital consultancy focused on government services, is seeking a Product Manager to drive execution for a DoD-related program. You’ll organize deliverables, maintain a prioritized backlog, and shepherd a team through a Jira/Confluence to GitLab/Mattermost transition while collaborating with government staff and contractors.

You will partner with the engagement manager, translate user needs into objectives, and help shape the roadmap with measurable outcomes, ensuring agile delivery

Formación

• Proven ability to translate user and partner needs into product objectives and roadmaps.
• Experience organizing deliverables, documentation, and schedules for government projects.
• Ability to lead backlog grooming, prioritization, and release planning with cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with lean and agile methodologies and artifacts (OKRs, backlog, user stories).
• Comfort working with researchers, designers, engineers, and external stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Partner with the engagement manager to organize deliverables, documentation, and schedules so the work stays on track and visible to government partners.
• Maintain a prioritized backlog: write user stories, keep priorities current, and build release plans with the team.
• Lead the team’s move from Jira/Confluence to GitLab and Mattermost, keeping config and docs clean.
• Facilitate team ceremonies such as planning, stakeholder syncs, and retrospectives.
• Translate needs from users and government partners into product objectives and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with government teams to transfer digital skills and product knowledge throughout the project.

Conocimientos

Lean product principles

Backlog management

User stories

Stakeholder management

Team ceremonies facilitation

Agile methodologies

Cross-functional collaboration

Public sector/government experience

Herramientas

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Mattermost

Descripción del empleo

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.

We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today’s digital world.

If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.

The work we do matters.

About the job

At Skylight, product managers are responsible for strategy, planning, execution, stakeholder management, and team health. Product managers partner with researchers, designers, engineers, client stakeholders, and others to inform their product decisions. At a high level, it’s the product manager’s job to figure out what to build next and why.

Skylight is partnering with a U.S. Air Force program office that runs a portfolio of civil engineering systems. These systems serve users across civil engineering, security forces, and services, including readiness managers, range personnel, and fire and emergency services. Releases are slow today. Regression testing is manual, security review happens after development finishes, and code freeze to production can take a month or more. We’ll move the program to an outcome-driven model with test automation and security built into the pipeline, starting with migrating the first application onto a DoD software factory. Leadership wants this office to become the model other Air Force offices adopt.

In this role, you’ll keep the team’s delivery organized and moving, working hand in hand with the engagement manager on deliverables and documentation and owning the backlog as the program changes how it works.

What to know going in

This is an execution-focused product role, well suited to someone with a strong project management or operations instinct. Your first 30 days are about getting to know the Skylight team and government personnel, learning how work gets tracked and delivered today, and helping move the team’s backlog and documentation from Jira and Confluence to GitLab and Mattermost. Expect to work alongside government staff and other contractors, with tools and processes changing as the work gets underway.

This role is contingent on Skylight being awarded the underlying contract. If we’re not awarded the contract, we’ll let you know promptly and discuss whether there are other opportunities that fit.

What you’ll do

• Partner with the engagement manager to organize deliverables, documentation, and schedules so the work stays on track and visible to government partners
• Maintain a prioritized backlog: write user stories, keep priorities current, and build release plans with the team
• Lead the team’s move from Jira and Confluence to GitLab and Mattermost, keeping configuration, tracking, and documentation clean through the transition
• Facilitate team ceremonies such as planning meetings, stakeholder syncs, and retrospectives
• Translate needs from users and government partners into product objectives, measures of success, and roadmap items
• Work in close partnership with government teams to transfer digital skills and product knowledge throughout the project

What we’re looking for

• Understand lean product principles and how to apply them (e.g., minimum viable product) at various stages of the product life cycle in order to mitigate risk, validate assumptions, and amplify learning
• Can develop a product strategy that is informed by an understanding of the problem to be solved, prioritizes outcomes over feature sets, and establishes the direction of the product over time (e.g., product roadmap), including success criteria
• Ability to execute the product strategy by breaking down the product’s scope into usable chunks of value that can be realized sooner rather than later, creating and maintaining a prioritized backlog with validated user stories, and facilitating team ceremonies over the course of the product’s iterations
• Understand how to engage in the process of human-centered design in order to better inform product direction
• Ability to collaborate with folks outside of your discipline, such as researchers, designers, engineers, and others, in order to get things done
• Ability to manage clients and stakeholders in a way that builds trust, alignment, and healthy environments for individuals and teams
• Understand the merits of different software development methodologies (e.g., agile, lean) and how to put them into practice
• Strong organizational skills, with experience keeping deliverables, documentation, and action items on track for an agile software delivery team
• Experience working on cross-functional teams (product, design, engineering, ops) in iterative delivery
• A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values

Nice-to-haves

• Project management experience, such as running schedules, risks, and dependencies for a delivery team
• Configuration management experience, or experience migrating a team’s tools and workflows (for example, from Jira and Confluence to GitLab)
• Experience with legacy modernization, or launching a new product from zero to one
• Consulting experience, or military or Department of Defense experience
• Experience delivering technology in government, regulated industries, or other public-benefit settings
• A track record of staying aligned and accountable on remote teams

Other requirements

• Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.
• All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories.
• This contract requires U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment.
• You must be able to obtain a Common Access Card (CAC) and any special access required for this contract.
• You must complete a company background check successfully.

Position type

This is a full-time, exempt position.

Location

This is a fully remote position.

Travel

This role includes occasional travel to Montgomery, AL, and other U.S. Air Force bases.

We’re targeting a start date of November 30, 2026, pending contract award.

We want to give you the most competitive salary possible. After all, you deserve it! To that end, we use the results of our interview process to determine what salary is most appropriate given your current level of seniority. For a Product Manager at Skylight, the current salary ranges are as follows:

• Associate Product Manager: $90,000–$125,000
• Senior Product Manager: $150,000–$185,000
• Staff Product Manager: $170,000–$203,000

Your well-being is important to us, so we focus on supporting you in a variety of ways:

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
• Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
• Up to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
• Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good

Interview tips

Our process includes a preliminary screen, a skills interview, a behavioral interview, and a reverse interview where you meet your potential team — usually four conversations across two to three weeks. Here are some tips to help you prepare for a successful interview:

• Visit our join page to learn more about how our interview process works.
• Check out our Career Pathways framework to learn more about the different roles within Skylight and the skills needed to do them.

If you’d like to request reasonable accommodations during the application or interviewing process, please contact our recruiting team at [e-mail] .

We participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you’re authorized to work in the U.S.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.

This role requires U.S. citizenship due to federal contract and security requirements. If you’re authorized to work in the U.S. but aren't a U.S. citizen, we encourage you to explore our other open positions that may not have this requirement.

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