Senior Product Manager

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.

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.

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.

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.

Senior Product Manager serves 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

• 7+ years of relevant product management experience and a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent additional experience in lieu of a degree
• 1+ years experience directing assignments for cross-functional teams
• Must meet federal suitability requirements and pass a background investigation as a condition of employment
• Demonstrated experience working in agile and SAFe delivery environments, with the ability to apply the right methodology to the situation rather than following any single framework rigidly
• Proven ability to manage and prioritize complex backlogs across multiple workstreams with competing priorities
• Strong stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences, including federal agency partners
• Experience decomposing complex problems into actionable stories, roadmap items, and delivery plans
• Comfortable facilitating cross-functional collaboration across engineering, design, QA, and program leadership
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, able to translate technical concepts for agency stakeholders and executive audiences alike

• Prior experience with federal agency digital services or government contracting environments
• Familiarity with copyright, licensing, records management, or other regulatory/compliance-driven domains
• Experience supporting SAFe PI planning, ART coordination, or multi-team program delivery
• CSPO, CPM, CSM, or other relevant agile or product certifications
• Experience working alongside UX research and accessibility teams in an integrated delivery model