Principal Product Manager

Principal Product Manager

This is a remote position.

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

Work on things that matter

Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions 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 approaches technology.

Built for a remote life

Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role, you will serve as a subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that provides mentorship associated with data competencies. A Principal Product Manager exhibits influential skills to shape future work streams within the current customer base, while maintaining a strategic vision to successfully pursue new business opportunities. With limited oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for cohesively integrating industry product management trends and devising a plan for adoption within programs, as well as the business unit. A Principal Product Manager serves as a representative of the business unit, effectively communicating product management strategies to a diverse audience. Primary expectations of a Principal Product Manager include:

• Demonstrates significant product competence and ownership to broad audiences while driving progress on company and business unit strategic objectives


• Proactively creates and explores new areas of opportunity for the business unit


• Mentors, guides, and coaches product team members


• Identifies and designs solutions to enable teams to scale quickly and reliably


• Effectively communicates on existing systems, design decisions, past performance and a major history of projects that they've been part of for bid-writing, tech demos and other customer-facing communications


• Understanding of the business unit’s current labor mix, with the ability to identify primary skills and experiences; supports the key personnel identification process


• Champions collaboration with teams across the programs/portfolio to identify product needs and deliver solutions to advance medium and long-term technology goals


• Leads and prioritizes product efforts across a portfolio of products or programs and draws connections across siloed workflows


• In-depth knowledge of the business unit customer portfolio, understanding customer operations, work and approval processes, and objectives


• May support hiring, onboarding and career development activities


• Extensive understanding of government and practice market conditions in order to drive organizational improvements and innovation


• Collaborates with Product leadership to develop internal practices, and strategic initiatives


• May represent the company publicly inclusive of writing blog posts, generating marketing materials, presenting at conferences, and taking part in panel discussions
• Translate data into actionable insights to support IRS objectives
• Senior Technical product leader with experience in identifying and delivering enterprise-scale modernization initiatives
• Engages stakeholders and team members to prioritize projects that align with IRS strategic