Staff/Principal Product Manager (Acf)

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Job Description

Lead a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, and engineers to build digital products for government clients. Define product strategy, vision, and roadmap; manage scope and priorities; write and prioritize user stories; facilitate team ceremonies; and partner with government teams to transfer skills and ensure sustained adoption of new digital capabilities.

Hard Requirements

• Led product development from concept to launch for net-new digital tools
• Experience with participatory research centering people with lived experience
• Understands lean product principles and MVP application
• Ability to develop product strategy and roadmap with success criteria
• Ability to execute strategy, maintain prioritized backlog with user stories
• Understands human-centered design
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration with researchers, designers, engineers
• Stakeholder and client management skills
• Understanding of software development methodologies (agile, lean)
• Commitment to equipping federal teams with documentation, training, mentoring
• Work effectively in professional services environment
• Passion for improving government services
• Alignment with Skylight core values
• U.S.-based work; authorized to work without sponsorship

Soft Requirements

• User adoption and enablement background (training, change management, service design)
• Supporting large, distributed, or operational user populations
• Hands-on UAT, usability testing, or readiness assessments
• Experience with Palantir Foundry
• Prior civic tech experience
• Remote-team experience