Senior Product Manager

Description

Senior Product Manager

This is an Evergreen position.

We are continuously sourcing for talent while we await anticipated job openings. Candidates who apply to this role understand we may not have an immediate opening and wish to be considered for future opportunities.

Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to meet the needs of our users while closing the gap between consumer expectations and government.

Work on things that matter

Our teams connect Veterans with services designed for their needs, help millions of people access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we're also changing how the government thinks about and uses technology.

Built for a remote life

Ad Hoc is remote-first and remote-always. We've designed our culture, communications, and tools to support a nationwide team. Being remote allows Ad Hoc to bring the best people onto our teams and give them the freedom to create a work environment that fits their lives. Maybe you need to adjust your schedule to care for your family or take a bike ride. At Ad Hoc, that's welcomed.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren't heroes. We leave our egos at the door to learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to bring the best of consumer technology to the problems of government.

The Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable VA to increase the usage, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Product Manager impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program's product management practice. You may serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in product management processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Product Manager include:

• Strong influential skills to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders

• Serves as a mentor and coach to other product team members

• Leads cross functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads; may serve as the primary technical point of contact for stakeholders

• Primarily focused on program and delivery strategy, but also supports tactical assignments

• Considered an expert with agile methodologies; ability to lead cross-functionally and deliver based upon requirements

• Leads a cross-functional team to deliver new products given the mission and goals of the customer.

• Works with a client/product owner to shape the vision and strategy for a product or program and adopt more iterative and outcome-driven ways of working

• Shapes the vision and narrative for the product by developing artifacts, like a "product brief" and related roadmaps; with the goal of instilling a shared purpose and metrics to define success

• Works with customers to develop strategies that focus on the highest value outcomes for the program given goals, needs, and constraints

• Successfully advocates for user needs and lean methods when setting priorities and managing tradeoffs
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience

• Proven track record of launching products from conception to production, and managing clients and key stakeholders
• In-depth knowledge and application of Agile principles and practices

• 1+ years experience directing assignments for cross-functional teams
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to obtain/maintain any of the following

• CSPO, CPM, CSM or other related certifications

• Prior government contracting preferred

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit: /adhocteam. us/join/

Benefits:

• Company-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Use What You Need Vacation Policy
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

In support of theColorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, and others like it across the country, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $120,000-$135,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

job reference: SENIO001621