Remote Product Manager for Mission-Critical Software

GovCIO; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

GovCIO is hiring a Product Manager to lead strategy, delivery, and ongoing oversight of a custom-developed product in the OCC portfolio. This fully remote US position requires coordinating with stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors to align product goals with mission-critical outcomes.

You will drive the product vision, roadmap, and measurable outcomes within an Agile environment, managing cross-functional teams and ensuring timely delivery while maintaining high quality and compliance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's with 2-5 years (or commensurate experience).
• Proven experience as a Product Manager overseeing custom software development projects.
• Strong ability to define product vision, roadmap, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum environments and leading cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to gather, prioritize, and translate stakeholder needs into clear technical requirements.
• Solid understanding of product lifecycle management for enterprise or mission-critical systems.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience managing vendor or contractor teams and evaluating delivery against requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including data-driven decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Creates integrated project plans for contract deliverables and new products in development projects.
• Manages a project team comprised of a multidisciplinary staff.
• Reviews, manages and controls status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with team members and line managers.
• Generally reports to a Program Manager.
• Manages the direction of a project through the design, implementation, and testing in accordance with project objectives.
• Defines requirements and plans project lifecycle deployment.
• Supervises professional and technical support personnel performing in their regular disciplines.
• Schedules tasks and coordinates with various team members to accomplish the results.
• Manages the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.
• Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables.
• Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project tracking, analysis and reporting.

Skills

Product management

Agile/Scrum

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder collaboration

Vendor management

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

GovCIO is hiring a Product Manager to lead strategy, delivery, and ongoing oversight of a custom-developed product in the OCC portfolio. This fully remote US position requires coordinating with stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors to align product goals with mission-critical outcomes.

You will drive the product vision, roadmap, and measurable outcomes within an Agile environment, managing cross-functional teams and ensuring timely delivery while maintaining high quality and compliance