Alpha Omega

Product Manager

Alpha Omega

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Virginia • United States

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Salary

💰 $120,000 - $135,000 per year

About the role

  • Owns product strategy; Creates and continuously updates an outcome-oriented product roadmap that reflects current product priorities
  • Acts as the main conduit of information between the product team and stakeholders; communicates how the product will or does deliver business and user value
  • Manages stakeholder expectations
  • Prioritize what the product team should focus on by balancing business, user, and product needs
  • Identifies, evaluates, and implements mitigations to product risks
  • Runs “Lean Experiments” to test product assumptions, with a bias towards running those experiments in user interviews or deployed software environments
  • Participates in user research efforts; encourages human-centered design thinking
  • Writes small user stories with detailed acceptance criteria that engineers can implement into product features
  • Advocates for frequent releases to production; supports continuous delivery by quickly conducting acceptance testing on user stories
  • Measures success of features and product value by gathering metrics; values outcomes over outputs

Requirements

  • 5 years’ experience as a Product Manager &/or Product Designer
  • Can distinguish between questions for which they can find the answer, and those that require an expert
  • Lean Mindset: Thinks in small, incremental changes to the product rather than major milestones
  • Easily builds trust with product teams and stakeholders
  • Can differentiate between stakeholder ideas, business requests, and legal/policy considerations; understands that “specifications” or “requirements” are not validated features
  • Can understand complex business domains and policy, synthesizes that information quickly and identifies patterns
  • Can translate technical considerations to a non-technical audience
  • Can identify when a product requires additional resources to achieve business goals and communicates those needs early to leadership
  • Intellectually curious and open to learning
  • Enjoys making sense of complex domains and wonky policy
  • Flexible to changing priorities, especially those based on new policies or executive orders
  • Forms strong opinions backed by research, but is open to changing those opinions with new evidence
  • Works as a member of a balanced product team rather than as a team manager; enjoys working in a collaborative environment
Benefits
  • PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave
  • Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company’s holiday schedule each year)
  • Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage under the HDHP health plan)
  • Life Insurance, STD/LTD term disability coverage, with employer paid premiums
  • 401 (k) plan with a match that is 100% vested after you complete two years of service
  • FSA/DFSA/HSA flexible benefit plans
  • Annual Tuition & Professional Development Reimbursement benefit
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
product strategyproduct roadmapuser researchLean Experimentsuser storiesacceptance testingmetrics gatheringcontinuous deliveryhuman-centered designrisk mitigation
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementtrust buildingflexibilityintellectual curiositycollaborationcommunicationcritical thinkingadaptabilityproblem-solvingopen-mindedness