Senior Product Manager (remote)

 

This is a remote position.

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.

Senior Product Managers at Ad Hoc have a track record of success delivering digital solutions at scale. They work with clients to define business goals, identify opportunities, develop road maps, and manage the iterative delivery of new products and services. As client-facing technologists, they are skilled at communicating impact and opportunity to a wide range of audiences and influencing decision-making.

Requirements

• Our Federal contracts require that you be a U.S. Citizen to be eligible for employment.
• All work must be conducted within the U.S.
• Minimum/General Experience: 4+ years’ experience in managing agile software development projects
• Functional Responsibility: leading scrum teams, daily standups, writing user stories, backlog grooming, coordinating team activities.
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work or training experience. *Four years of additional hands on experience in a relevant field and a high school diploma may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree.

What You'll Do

• Lead workshops and other activities aimed at defining the problem to be solved, generating hypotheses, promoting ideation, and managing tradeoffs. 
• Leverage qualitative and quantitative feedback to facilitate decision-making and to inform the future of the products we build with the government.
• Coach, mentor, and provide feedback for Ad Hoc product staff. 
• Help tell the story of our work in terms of “why, what, and how” and advocate for more iterative and human-centered ways of working within government. 

What You'll Bring

• 4+ years experience directing assignments for cross-functional teams 
• Prior experience serving as a mentor to junior level team members - 
• Preferred: ability to obtain/maintain any of the following: CSPO, CPM, CSM or other related certifications
• Experience and comfort working at all stages of the product lifecycle - building and scaling a product from 0 to 1 and the ability to toggle between the big picture and day to day. 
• Previous consulting and or digital agency experience - you know how to work with customers and stakeholders to build consensus and guide decision-making. 
• Strong facilitation skills; experienced at leading kickoff workshops, discovery/prototyping sprints, road-mapping exercises, and prioritization efforts with clients and teams. 
• Experience leading, coaching and mentoring other product managers.

Some experience with:

• working on complex data engineering projects. (Develop pipelines to wrangle, aggregate, and clean the data from a variety of sources.)
• SQL and a BI tool (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.)
• enterprise data management
• supporting data standards
• Proven track record of using data as a part of the business stra