Senior Product Manager

Description

** This position is contingent upon contract award.**

Leidos is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead product management for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Summit Advanced Tooling, Lakehouse, and Artificial Intelligence Services (ATLAS) program.

Remote work within CONUS is subject to VA security and system-access requirements. Must support Eastern Time collaboration and applicable production coverage. Occasional after-hours or weekend support may be required for critical incidents or planned maintenance
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This Key Personnel role directs continuous product discovery and delivery, translating VA mission priorities and customer needs into a measurable product roadmap, integrated backlog, and reliable platform outcomes.

• Lead continuous discovery and delivery for the Summit Data Platform, identifying VA customer needs, use cases, adoption barriers, and measurable product outcomes.
• Own the integrated product roadmap and backlog prioritization; align epics, releases, dependencies, and sprint execution with VA objectives and key results (OKRs).
• Coordinate product owners, engineering, data, security, customer enablement, and subcontractor teams to deliver high-value capabilities across shared platform services.
• Facilitate product planning, sprint reviews, roadmap reviews, demonstrations, and cross-team decision-making; maintain clear owners and decision records.
• Define and monitor product health, adoption, customer experience, and service performance; recommend corrective action and tradeoffs to VA leadership.
• Guide, present, and monitor product documentation, release communication, user feedback collection, and continuous improvement of customer intake and onboarding.
• Support rapid transition‑in from the government or incumbent contractor, validate the inherited roadmap and backlog, and preserve uninterrupted customer‑facing services.
• Coordinate with the Program Manager and VA stakeholders on risks, priorities, approvals, and dependencies; support urgent delivery or service escalations as needed.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and 12+ year of experience leading enterprise IT, cloud, data, or analytics products or product‑oriented technical delivery.
• Demonstrated experience leading continuous product discovery and delivery, including identifying customer needs, evaluating opportunities, prioritizing product capabilities, managing backlogs, coordinating iterative releases, and measuring outcomes.
• Experience translating customer and stakeholder needs into product priorities, roadmaps, and actionable delivery plans while working closely with Agile development and technical teams; experience may be gained through product ownership or technical delivery leadership.
• Ability to develop and execute product roadmaps, balance competing stakeholder demands, manage cross‑team dependencies, and make evidence‑based product tradeoff recommendations.
• Strong customer‑facing communication, facilitation, data‑informed decision‑making, and cross‑functional leadership skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required VA Public Trust suitability (Tier 2/Moderate Risk) and meet VA system‑access requirements.

• Highly preferred: Direct, hands‑on experience with the VA Summit Data Platform or related VA enterprise data and analytics initiatives.
• Direct experience working in the VA environment
• Experience coordinating complex, multi‑team product deliver, scrum of scrums, and measuring business outcomes.
• Experience managing or supporting enterprise data, analytics, cloud, or AI‑enabled products in federal government, federal healthcare, or similarly complex regulated environments.
• Experience leading federal health IT product delivery,…