Senior Product Manager, Cloud Research Platform (DC Onsite)

The Squires Group; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Squires Group is seeking a Product Manager to lead strategy, development, and delivery of a cloud-based research computing platform for a U.S. financial institution. You will partner with researchers, engineering, security, data, and business stakeholders to drive product success from concept through launch.

This on-site role is based in Washington, DC, and requires US citizenship. You will own the end-to-end roadmap, balance short-term delivery with long-term platform vision, and establish

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of technical product management experience, including at least 4 years working directly with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP in a product or engineering capacity.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and services, including compute, storage, networking, security, containers, orchestration, and related cloud technologies.
• Hands-on experience with system design for cloud-based applications and platforms.
• Strong knowledge of platform engineering principles, including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, monitoring, and automated delivery practices.
• Strong understanding of modern AI-based development workflows and technologies.
• Demonstrated success delivering enterprise or research and development-focused products from initial concept through launch.
• Experience working closely with security and compliance teams and navigating data governance, access controls, risk reviews, and related security processes.
• Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, security, data, business, and end-user stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated experience developing product strategy, roadmaps, priorities, and long-term vision for enterprise platforms.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage technical, business, and executive-level stakeholders.
• Experience supporting academic or research-based workflows is highly preferred.
• Ability to work on-site in Washington, DC; the on-site requirement is not flexible.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for a cloud-based research computing platform supporting economic research.
• Collaborate closely with researchers across economic divisions to gather requirements and translate user needs into clear product specifications, priorities, and solutions.
• Develop a deep understanding of user needs, pain points, workflows, and use cases to drive product prioritization and solution development.
• Partner with architecture, cloud engineering, enterprise data platform, security, and platform delivery teams to design and develop a scalable platform that meets researcher needs while maintaining appropriate data governance and security.
• Lead product discovery activities, including user research, journey mapping, workflow analysis, and requirements gathering, to ensure solutions are intuitive and aligned with real-world processes.
• Demonstrate strong ownership and operate with a high degree of autonomy while maintaining cross-functional alignment and accountability for timely delivery of outcomes and deliverables.
• Balance near-term product delivery with long-term platform strategy to ensure scalable and sustainable solutions.
• Establish product success metrics and continuously evaluate, iterate, and improve the platform based on usage data, performance, and user feedback.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and establish clear, consistent processes for communicating relevant information, product updates, priorities, and project status.
• Clearly communicate product vision, roadmap, progress, priorities, risks, and tradeoffs to technical, non-technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, security, data, researchers, and business stakeholders to drive successful product outcomes from conception through launch.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Product strategy

Stakeholder management

AI development workflows

Security & compliance

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD tooling

IaC (Terraform)

Job description

The Squires Group is seeking a Product Manager to lead strategy, development, and delivery of a cloud-based research computing platform for a U.S. financial institution. You will partner with researchers, engineering, security, data, and business stakeholders to drive product success from concept through launch.

This on-site role is based in Washington, DC, and requires US citizenship. You will own the end-to-end roadmap, balance short-term delivery with long-term platform vision, and establish