Single-Family Market Engagement - Product Management - Lead Associate

Playing an essential role in the U.S. economy, Fannie Mae is foundational to housing finance. Here, your expertise can help fuel purpose-driven innovation that expands access to home ownership and affordable rental housing across the country.

As a valued colleague on our team, you will provide expert advice and guide the team in building, developing, or designing functionality for new products, as well as guide and ensure the ongoing implementation, enhancement, or maintenance of existing products.

• Product Ownership: Take end-to-end responsibility for the lifecycle of features and integrations at the squad-level, from detailed requirements gathering to deployment and post-launch optimization.
• Strategic Recommendations: Partner with program leadership to shape the product roadmap, analyze business requests and technical capabilities, and make data-backed recommendations on strategic direction, prioritization, and trade-offs.
• Complex Coordination: Manage dependencies across different stakeholder groups and systems, coordinating interrelated tasks and working seamlessly alongside other squads in our multi-squad environment to ensure cohesive platform development.
• Advanced Agile Execution: Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, and daily delivery coordination using collaborative tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Apptio Target process.
• Change Management & Adoption: Create training materials and champion the platform to ensure smooth user adoption, recognizing that technology is only as good as its usage.
• Testing & QA: Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring business users feel supported and heard during the validation phase.
• Team Guidance: Provide guidance and coordination for junior product managers and business subject matter experts, helping to elevate the overall quality and consistency of the team’s output.

Minimum Required Experiences

• At least 4 years of experience in product management.
• Experience using product management tools like Jira or Confluence.
• Exceptional ability to distill complex technical concepts into clear strategic recommendations.
• Proven track record operating in a mature Agile/Scrum environment, with experience owning the backlog for a development squad.
• Familiarity with major CRM platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, or Hub Spot.
• Shows curiosity and adaptability in learning and responsibly applying new technologies, including artificial intelligence.

Desired Experiences

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.
• Exceptional emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust with stakeholders and work effectively within a diverse team.
• Experience rolling out sales enablement tools and connected user experiences.
• Previous work related to digital product design and development.
• Experience with Organizational Change Management (OCM).

Target Salary: $123,000–$161,000. Final salaries may vary within this range based on skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and other relevant qualifications.

Education requirement:
Bachelor’s Level Degree (required).

Employees are expected to work onsite on a regular basis at a designated office location. Remote work is considered only if the role is noted as open to remote.

Fannie Mae is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital or parental status, or any other protected factor. Fannie Mae is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who are employees or applicants for employment, unless doing so would cause undue hardship to the company.

Applicants may request assistance and reasonable accommodations related to the hiring and application process.