Senior Product Manager
Founded in 2007, Initiate Government Solutions (IGS) is a Woman-Owned Small Business and a fully remote IT services provider supporting federal partners nationwide. We deliver innovative Enterprise IT and Health Services solutions with a strong focus on data analytics, health informatics, cloud migration, AI, and the modernization of federal information systems.
Our vision is to be a health IT trendsetter, continuing to solve the nation’s most challenging healthcare IT issues by conceiving, designing, and building solid, creative, and innovative open-source solutions.
Our mission is to innovate, design, and deliver tailored solutions that balance technical advancement with cost-awareness while providing exceptional service.
IGS is currently recruiting a remote Senior Product Manager to support our work with a federal customer.
Assignment of Work and Travel:
This is a remote access assignment. The Candidate will work remotely daily and will remotely access customer systems and therein use approved customer provided communications systems. Travel is not required; however, the candidate may be required to attend onsite client meetings as requested.
The Senior Product Manager will drive product vision, customer engagement, roadmap planning, and outcome-based delivery while partnering with engineering, architecture, security, analytics, governance, and stakeholders. This role requires expertise in continuous discovery and continuous delivery, Agile product management, customer-centered design, and enterprise platform modernization. The resources will manage complex cloud, data, analytics and AI platform products.
Responsibilities and Duties (Included but not limited to):
- Develop, maintain, and communicate platform roadmaps, product strategies, and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
- Lead roadmap reviews, product planning sessions, quarterly business reviews, and executive stakeholder briefings.
- Translate customer needs into prioritized product investments and actionable delivery plans.
- Lead continuous discovery efforts through stakeholder interviews, user research, usability testing, surveys, and data-driven insights.
- Champion human-centered design practices consistent with the customer’s Digital Services Playbook and Design System.
- Manage product backlogs, prioritization activities, sprint planning, and release planning.
- Collaborate with engineering and delivery teams to define epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, demos, and Scrum-of-Scrums.
- Create and maintain product documentation including business cases, product briefs, release notes, onboarding materials, and operational guidance; track risks, dependencies, and escalation items across multiple teams and initiatives.
- Present product updates, roadmap progress, business value, and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Build strong partnerships across architecture, security, governance, AI/ML, data engineering, and customer enablement teams.
- Align product priorities with evolving business needs and mission objectives.
- Support initiatives focused on cloud analytics, data engineering, data governance, data quality, AI, and machine learning.
- Other duties as assigned