Product Manager

Job Title: Product Manager
Clearance Required: DHS Public Trust EOD (Secret or above preferred)
Work Location: Remote;

Alpha Omega is looking for experienced Product Managers to join our team.  On the team, it is traditionally the responsibility of the product manager to be the voice of the business. In this case, the “business” is most likely RAIO. Due to the projects close relationship with colleagues at RAIO IDEA, product teams often have close collaboration with a representative(s) of the business. Therefore, the projects Product Managers are less needed to voice the needs of the business and more needed to balance the needs of the business, users, and technology. This balancing of business, user, and technology needs constitutes whole product thinking. 

Product Managers are ultimately responsible for advocating for the product. They are more concerned about whether the team is building the right software to solve the right problem than if what they are building is “on schedule” or meeting requirements. Product Managers constantly ask themselves the question, “Is my team focusing on the most valuable thing for the product?”

Key Responsibilities:

• Owns product strategy; Creates and continuously updates an outcome-oriented product roadmap that reflects current product priorities 
• Acts as the main conduit of information between the product team and stakeholders; communicates how the product will or does deliver business and user value 
• Manages stakeholder expectations 
• Prioritize what the product team should focus on by balancing business, user, and product needs 
• Identifies, evaluates, and implements mitigations to product risks 
• Runs “Lean Experiments” to test product assumptions, with a bias towards running those experiments in user interviews or deployed software environments 
• Participates in user research efforts; encourages human-centered design thinking 
• Writes small user stories with detailed acceptance criteria that engineers can implement into product features 
• Advocates for frequent releases to production; supports continuous delivery by quickly conducting acceptance testing on user stories 
• Measures success of features and product value by gathering metrics; values outcomes over outputs 

Role: Facilitates Lean product delivery (Build, Measure, Learn cycle)   

• Build 
• Writes small user stories with detailed acceptance criteria that engineers can implement into product features 
• Advocates for frequent releases to production; supports continuous delivery by quickly conducting acceptance testing on user stories 
• Measure 
• Measures success of features and product value by gathering metrics; values outcomes over outputs 
• Learn  
• Participates in user research efforts; encourages human-centered design thinking 
• Adjusts strategy, roadmap, and backlog based on learning from user research 
• Product strategy and roadmaps 
• Owns product strategy; creates and continuously updates an outcome-oriented product roadmap that reflects current product priorities 
• Runs “[Lean Experiments](https://www.shortform.com/blog/lean-experimentation-lean-startup-experiments/ to test product assumptions, with a bias towards running those experiments in user interviews or deployed software environments (as opposed to validating those assumptions only with stakeholders or in mock situations) 
• Identifies, evaluates, and implements mitigations to product risks 
• Prioritization 
• Prioritize what the product team should focus on by balancing business, user, and product needs and reassess product priorities frequently 
• Stakeholder management 
• Acts as the main conduit of information between the product team and stakeholders; communicates how the p