Staff Product Manager

Ad Hoc LLC; Virginia (MN); Remote; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company seeks a Staff Product Manager to drive product management excellence in the federal space. The role offers the chance to shape impactful digital services while fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. Ideal candidates will have a solid background in product strategy and possess strong leadership and communication skills. Join us in transforming public-sector services!

Benefits

Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

401K with employer match

Paid parental leave after one year of service

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 9+ years of relevant experience.
• 3+ years directing cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead product management processes and practices.
• Define vision and strategy for products.
• Mentor individuals within the business unit.

Skills

Communication

Influential Skills

Mentoring

Problem Solving

Decision Making

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CSPO

CPM

CSM

Job description

Are you ready for new challenges and new opportunities?

Join our team!

Current job opportunities are posted here as they become available.

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

Work on things that matter

Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.

Built for a remote life

Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role, you will serve as an emerging subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs with the business unit. A Staff Product Manager exhibits strong influential skills to represent the product management practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best solution, while communicating tradeoffs. You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders; while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in product management processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Staff Product Manager:

• Strong influential skills to garner consensus among stakeholders, leadership, programs, and practice teams
• Primarily supports a program/portfolio, but may support business unit initiatives in order to drive thought leadership among practice and delivery
• Serves as a mentor to individuals within the assigned business unit or Program, providing constructive feedback to support employee development and practice innovations
• Presents to a wide variety of audiences, inclusive of internal and external stakeholders
• Primarily focused on program/portfolio strategic initiatives, but may support tactical assignments
• Exhibits strong communications skills in order to gain consensus, mitigate conflict, and serves as a stewardess of innovation or change
• Responsible for defining the vision and strategy for products and identifying areas of growth for a program or portfolio of work
• Demonstrates the ability to make educated decisions and understands when to pivot and how to experiment in order to reduce uncertainty and inform next steps
• Utilizes effective communication skills and understands how to translate complex issues for a wide variety of audiences in order to influence decision making for the highest value outcome
• May support growth opportunities, inclusive of proposal writing, solution development, presentations, and briefings
• Serves as a partner to Project and Program Managers to support the delivery of required scope and deliverables

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 9+ years of experience
  • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• 3+ years experience directing assignments for cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to obtain/maintain any of the following:
  • CSPO, CPM, CSM or other related certifications
• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $130,000 - $140,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.