Product Manager; HHS

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. We're at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world. If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we'd love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.

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At Skylight, product managers are responsible for strategy, planning, execution, stakeholder management, and team health. Product managers partner with researchers, designers, engineers, client stakeholders, and others to inform their product decisions. At a high level, it's the product manager's job to figure out what to build next and why.

• OCIO portfolio. Taking in and shaping new projects for OCIO.
• ATO/GRC tool replacement. Supporting modernization efforts for Authority to Operate and governance, risk, and compliance processes, on an aggressive timeline that involves many federal stakeholders.
• CTIR Intelligence Data Hub. A greenfield effort for HHS's Cybersecurity and Resilience team (CTIR). It will consolidate threat intelligence sources such as Threat Connect, Intel 471, Feedly, Google Threat Intelligence, and Splunk into a single, FedRAMP High-compliant workbench for analysts and leadership.

Across all three, client leadership believes moving too slowly is a bigger risk than being wrong. As the lead product manager, you'll be the team's front door with OCIO and lead a small team of product managers, while likely owning a workstream of your own.

This is a player/coach role. You'll report directly to Skylight's contract leadership and work on the front lines with HHS and Skylight leadership. The work is high-visibility, and priorities shift often. You'll need to absorb new work quickly, learn enough to act, and come back with a plan, without waiting months to learn everything first. Sometimes you'll push back with the client, and sometimes you'll disagree and commit.

Knowing the difference is crucial. You'll do well here if you like showing early, imperfect work and iterating on it. In this role, you'll also serve as a people manager. As a manager, you'll keep growing in your craft and contributing to client work, while also taking on responsibility for the people you manage - their development, their performance, and the conditions that help them do their best work.

• Take in new requests from OCIO, find the real need behind each one, and shape it into scoped, prioritized work
• Build the lightweight scaffolding (intake, planning, and team rhythms) that lets the team move fast without adding overhead
• Own a product workstream of your own, translating user and stakeholder needs into a vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog
• Partner with HHS and Skylight leadership as priorities shift, knowing when to push back and when to disagree and commit
• Build strong working relationships with the people you manage and actively support their development
• Coach individuals through growth, feedback, and day-to-day challenges

• 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…