Staff 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.

Staff Product Manager serves as an emerging subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs with the business unit. A Staff Product Manager exhibits strong influential skills to represent the product management practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best solution, while communicating tradeoffs. You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders; while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in product management processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Staff Product Manager:

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  Strong influential skills to garner consensus among stakeholders, leadership, programs, and practice teams

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  Primarily supports a program/portfolio, but may support business unit initiatives in order to drive thought leadership among practice and delivery

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  Serves as a mentor to individuals within the assigned business unit or Program, providing constructive feedback to support employee development and practice innovations

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  Presents to a wide variety of audiences, inclusive of internal and external stakeholders

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  Primarily focused on program/portfolio strategic initiatives, but may support tactical assignments

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  Exhibits strong communications skills in order to gain consensus, mitigate conflict, and serves as a stewardess of innovation or change

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  Responsible for defining the vision and strategy for products and identifying areas of growth for a program or portfolio of work

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  Demonstrates the ability to make educated decisions and understands when to pivot and how to experiment in order to reduce uncertainty and inform next steps

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  Utilizes effective communication skills and understands how to translate complex issues for a wide variety of audiences in order to influence decision making for the highest value outcome

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  May support growth opportunities, inclusive of proposal writing, solution development, presentations, and briefings

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  Serves as a partner to Project and Program Managers to support the delivery of required scope and deliverables

• Bachelor’s degree and 9+ years of experience

  • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education

• 3+ years experience directing assignments for cross-functional teams

• Ability to obtain/maintain any of the following:

  • CSPO, CPM, CSM or other related certifications