Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. In this role, you’ll lead technically complex products across their federal health and civilian portfolio, managing product strategy and execution while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, and engineers to build and ship technically complex, high-impact products and services
- Translate user needs, policy requirements, and engineering realities into a product strategy — vision, measures of success, roadmap, and a prioritized backlog
- Make product decisions that hinge on fluency with the underlying architecture, APIs, and data systems, weighing engineering tradeoffs alongside user and business value
- Manage direction, scope, and priorities from user research through minimum viable product to scalable, sustainable solutions
- Draw on data and feedback to continually sharpen the product strategy and roadmap
- Partner closely with government teams to transfer product and technical knowledge, and creatively navigate bureaucratic constraints to clear the path for delivery
Skills
- Understand lean product principles and how to apply them (e.g., minimum viable product) at various stages of the product life cycle in order to mitigate risk, validate assumptions, and amplify learning
- Can develop a product strategy that is informed by an understanding of the problem to be solved, prioritizes outcomes over feature sets, and establishes the direction of the product over time (e.g., product roadmap), including success criteria
- Ability to execute the product strategy by breaking down the product's scope into usable chunks of value that can be realized sooner rather than later, creating and maintaining a prioritized backlog with validated user stories, and facilitating team ceremonies over the course of the product's iterations
- Hands-on technical background, such as prior experience as a software engineer, engineering manager, data engineer, or architect, with the ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and engage in architecture and API discussions
- Understand how to engage in the process of human-centered design in order to better inform product direction
- Ability to collaborate with folks outside of your discipline, such as researchers, designers, engineers, and others, in order to get things done
- Ability to manage clients and stakeholders in a way that builds trust, alignment, and healthy environments for individuals and teams
- Understand the merits of different software development methodologies (e.g., agile, lean) and how to put them into practice
- Translating fluently between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working on cross-functional teams (product, design, engineering, ops) in iterative delivery
- A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
- Familiarity with the technical side of modernization work — APIs, cloud platforms, data systems, or migrating off aging legacy systems
- Experience with health, benefits, or other high-stakes, public-facing government services
- Experience delivering technology in government, regulated industries, or other public-benefit settings
- A track record of staying aligned and accountable on remote teams
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