Principal Product Lead

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We are seeking a Principal Product Lead to join our team and support our government client on a large, multi-year IT services program.

The Principal Product Lead is accountable for program roadmap ownership, intake-to-prioritization governance, user and stakeholder alignment, value management, and sequencing of cross-team product work. This role will work closely with government stakeholders, program leadership, agile delivery teams, engineering, data, architecture, cybersecurity, and operations teams to ensure that product investments are aligned to mission needs, prioritized transparently, planned effectively, and delivered in measurable increments of value.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, hands-on product leader with demonstrated experience leading enterprise product management and product delivery on a large federal IT services program. They bring deep expertise in product strategy, roadmap management, stakeholder engagement, intake and prioritization, customer discovery, backlog management, agile product delivery, value measurement, and cross-functional leadership.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, communicate, and continuously refine the program-level product roadmap in alignment with government mission priorities, contractual objectives, user needs, technical constraints, architecture, security, data, and operational requirements.
• Establish and operate the intake-to-prioritization governance process for new requests, enhancements, mission needs, defects, technical investments, policy-driven changes, and emerging opportunities.
• Define transparent intake criteria, evaluation methods, prioritization frameworks, decision rights, and governance forums to ensure that product work is assessed consistently and aligned to mission value.
• Partner with government stakeholders, end users, program leadership, product owners, architects, engineering leads, data leads, cybersecurity leads, and operations teams to identify needs, clarify outcomes, and resolve competing priorities.
• Translate mission objectives, user needs, policy requirements, operational constraints, and stakeholder feedback into clear product strategies, roadmaps, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable objectives.
• Lead cross-team product planning and sequencing to ensure work is delivered in a logical order that accounts for dependencies, architecture decisions, data readiness, security requirements, capacity, release schedules, and operational readiness.
• Manage and continuously refine product backlogs, ensuring that planned work is sufficiently defined, prioritized, traceable, measurable, and ready for delivery teams.
• Drive user and stakeholder alignment through discovery sessions, workshops, interviews, demonstrations, feedback reviews, roadmap discussions, and decision forums.
• Define and monitor product value measures, outcomes, adoption indicators, user satisfaction measures, operational impacts, delivery progress, and other metrics that demonstrate mission value.
• Ensure product priorities balance user needs, mission outcomes, technical feasibility, security and privacy requirements, delivery risk, cost, quality, sustainability, and contractual obligations.
• Coordinate product work across multiple teams, work streams, vendors, and stakeholder organizations; actively identify and manage product dependencies, assumptions, risks, and decision points.
• Support Program Increment Planning, release planning, backlog refinement, demonstrations, inspect-and-adapt activities, and other Agile delivery events.
• Ensure product documentation and decision artifacts support client oversight, auditability, program transition, institutional knowledge retention, and delivery-team execution.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap changes, prioritization decisions, trade-offs, performance information, risks, and recommendations clearly to government and program leadership.
• Facilitate timely resolution of product-related escalations, scope questions, competing stakeholder priorities, and…