Senior Engagement Manager - Federal Programs (Remote)

Skylighthq; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Remote-friendly environment

Paid time off

Job summary

Skylight is seeking an Engagement Manager for a federal contract in the health and civilian space. You will own the product strategy and roadmap for the work, and you’ll also serve as the engagement manager — accountable for the overall success of the contract, the health of the team, and the relationship with our client.

This is a senior leadership role for someone who can hold the “what to build and why,” the “how it’s built,” and the “how this engagement succeeds” in the same hand.

Qualifications

• Understand lean product principles across the lifecycle to mitigate risk, validate assumptions, and amplify learning.
• Develop a product strategy informed by the problem and prioritize outcomes over features.
• Break scope into usable chunks, maintain a prioritized backlog, and facilitate team ceremonies.
• Manage clients and stakeholders to build trust, alignment, and healthy environments.
• Lead and grow engagements with agile program management, contract health, risk/issue management, and team health.
• Have technical fluency to partner with engineers on architecture, APIs, integrations, security and compliance tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, and engineers 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, product roadmap, and product backlog
• Own the overall success of the engagement as the engagement manager — managing scope, risk, contract health, and the relationship the client
• Partner closely with engineers on architecture, integrations, and the secure data exchanges, making informed tradeoffs about technical feasibility, sequencing, and risk
• Build and support a healthy, psychologically safe team, and coach individuals through the ambiguity and complexity that come with government work
• Creatively navigate bureaucratic and compliance challenges — including the privacy and security realities of federal tax information — to keep delivery moving

Skills

Lean product

Product strategy

Backlog management

Stakeholder mgmt

Agile PM

Architecture

Client communication

Multi-workstream

Travel

Job description

Skylight is seeking an Engagement Manager for a federal contract in the health and civilian space. You will own the product strategy and roadmap for the work, and you’ll also serve as the engagement manager — accountable for the overall success of the contract, the health of the team, and the relationship with our client.

This is a senior leadership role for someone who can hold the “what to build and why,” the “how it’s built,” and the “how this engagement succeeds” in the same hand.