Product Manager - Modeling & Decision Support

Core4ce; United States; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with match

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Professional development programs

Tuition assistance

Parental leave & PTO

Internal innovation programs

Job summary

Core4ce seeks a Technical Product Manager to lead a modeling and decision-support application for the Defense Health Agency. The platform enables planners to explore healthcare-system scenarios through simulation, data integration, and interactive analysis, requiring close collaboration with users, subject-matter experts, engineers, and stakeholders.

This hands-on product role focuses on translating high-level concepts into coherent capabilities, maintaining a clear backlog and roadmap, and

Qualifications

• Approximately 3–5 years of experience in technical product management, product ownership, user research, business analysis, software delivery, or a comparable role.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.
• Demonstrated experience interviewing users and translating findings into actionable product requirements.
• Experience creating clear user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, or development-ready documentation.
• Experience managing a product backlog and planning work across multiple delivery increments.
• Sufficient technical fluency to work effectively with software engineers and understand system behavior, data flows, dependencies, and engineering tradeoffs.
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills, including the ability to make sense of complex or ambiguous problem spaces.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, make well-reasoned product decisions, and take ownership of outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Interview users and subject-matter experts to understand their workflows, decisions, constraints, and underlying needs.
• Plan and facilitate product-discovery activities, including interviews, workflow analysis, prototype reviews, and feedback sessions.
• Translate high-level concepts into well-defined capabilities, features, and user stories for the development team.
• Document acceptance criteria, business rules, workflows, assumptions, dependencies, and intended outcomes.
• Build and maintain a product roadmap aligned with program objectives and SAFe Program Increments (PIs).
• Lead PI preparation by refining priorities, dependencies, and ensuring proposed work is understood.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to develop achievable sprint plans and adapt priorities as needed.
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog balancing user value, technical constraints, and program commitments.
• Work with engineers during implementation to answer questions and resolve ambiguity.
• Collaborate with domain experts as simulation logic and analytical capabilities are designed and validated.

Skills

Technical product management

User research

Agile SAFe

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Simulation tools

Job description

We are seeking a Technical Product Manager to help lead the development of a modeling and decision-support application for the Defense Health Agency (DHA). The platform helps planners explore complex healthcare-system scenarios through simulation, data integration, and interactive analysis.

This is a hands-on product role for someone who can move comfortably between users, subject-matter experts, engineers, and organizational stakeholders. You will investigate complex operational needs, turn incomplete or high-level concepts into coherent product capabilities, and give the development team the context and direction needed to build effective software. The successful candidate will be intellectually curious, technically conversant, and comfortable developing a deep understanding of unfamiliar workflows and modeling concepts.

Responsibilities:

• Interview users and subject-matter experts to understand their workflows, decisions, constraints, and underlying needs.
• Plan and facilitate product-discovery activities, including interviews, workflow analysis, prototype reviews, and feedback sessions.
• Distinguish underlying user problems from requested features and identify solutions that deliver meaningful operational value.
• Translate high-level concepts and complex discussions into well-defined capabilities, features, and user stories that a development team can execute.
• Document acceptance criteria, business rules, workflows, assumptions, dependencies, and intended user outcomes.
• Build and maintain a product roadmap aligned with program objectives and Agile SAFe Program Increments (PIs).
• Lead PI preparation by refining priorities, identifying dependencies, and ensuring proposed work is sufficiently understood.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to develop achievable sprint plans and adapt priorities as new information emerges.
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog while balancing user value, technical constraints, program commitments, and long-term product health.
• Work closely with engineers during implementation to answer questions, resolve ambiguity, and make timely product decisions.
• Collaborate with technical and domain experts as simulation logic and analytical capabilities are designed and validated.
• Participate in architectural and technical discussions to understand tradeoffs and represent user and mission needs.
• Review completed work, coordinate user demonstrations, gather feedback, and incorporate findings into future product decisions.
• Communicate product direction, priorities, progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Help the team continuously improve its discovery, planning, and delivery practices.

This position is designed to be flexible, with responsibilities evolving to meet business needs and enable individual growth.

Requirements:

• Approximately 3–5 years of experience in technical product management, product ownership, user research, business analysis, software delivery, or a comparable role.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.
• Demonstrated experience interviewing users and translating findings into actionable product requirements.
• Experience creating clear user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, or comparable development-ready documentation.
• Experience managing a product backlog and planning work across multiple delivery increments.
• Sufficient technical fluency to work effectively with software engineers and understand system behavior, data flows, dependencies, and engineering tradeoffs.
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills, including the ability to make sense of complex or ambiguous problem spaces.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, make well-reasoned product decisions, and take ownership of outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing software products for government, healthcare, defense, logistics, operations, or other complex domains.
• Experience with human-centered design, user experience research, human factors, cognitive science, instructional design, or a related discipline.
• Experience working with simulation, modeling, decision-support, data-intensive, or analytical software.
• Experience collaborating with researchers, data scientists, modelers, or other highly specialized subject-matter experts.
• Familiarity with software architecture, APIs, relational databases, data pipelines, cloud platforms, or modern application-development practices.
• Experience working in Agile SAFe environments and planning Program Increments.
• Experience using prototypes, diagrams, or lightweight visual artifacts to clarify requirements and evaluate potential solutions.
• Experience facilitating workshops and discussions involving users, engineers, leadership, and domain experts.
• Experience defining product outcomes and evaluating whether delivered capabilities address the original user need.
• A degree or advanced study in computer science, human-computer interaction, human factors, systems engineering, operations research, healthcare informatics, or a related technical or research-oriented field.

Why Work for Us?

Core4ce is a team of innovators, self-starters, and critical thinkers—driven by a shared mission to strengthen national security and advance warfighting outcomes.

We offer:

• 401(k) with 100% company match on the first 6% deferred, withimmediatevesting
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage—employee portion paid 100% by Core4ce
• Unlimitedaccess totrainingand certifications, with no pre-set cap on eligible professional development
• Tuition assistancefor job-related degrees and courses
• Paidparental leave, PTO that grows with tenure, and generous holiday schedules
• Got a big idea? At Core4ce,The Forgegives every employee the chance to propose bold innovations and help bring them to life with internal backing.

Join us to build a career that matters—supported by a company that invests in you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, veteran status, age, genetic information, or other legally protected status.

*Core4ce provides the listed pay range for this position as a general guideline only and not as a guarantee of compensation or salary. Final offers may take into account a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, market data alignment, any applicable collective bargaining agreement, and other legal requirements.