StaffPrincipal Product Manager, Data (ACF)

About Skylight

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services. Were at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families patients and many others in todays digital world.

If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward wed love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists. The work we do matters.

About the job

At Skylight product managers are responsible for strategy planning execution stakeholder management and team health. Product managers partner with researchers designers engineers client stakeholders and others to inform their product decisions. At a high level its the product managers job to figure out what to build next and why.

As a Product Manager supporting ACFs grants management systems you will partner closely with senior leadership grants management staff and technical teams to help translate strategy policy and operational needs into delivered system improvements across ACFs grants management tool suite.

What youll do

• Lead a cross-functional team of researchers designers engineers and subject matter experts to build and ship high-impact products and services
• Translate needs from users and government partners into a product strategy including vision objectives measures of success product roadmap and product backlog
• Manage the direction scope and priorities of the product initiative building from user research to minimum viable products to scalable solutions
• Write user stories prioritize stories and build release plans
• Facilitate team ceremonies such as planning meetings stakeholder syncs and retrospectives
• Draw on data and feedback to inform the product strategy and roadmap
• Work in close partnership with government teams to transfer digital skills and product knowledge throughout the course of the project
• Creatively navigate bureaucratic challenges paving the way for more intuitive processes in the future
• Collaborate with government partners to ensure compatibility with existing processes and technologies

What were looking for

Minimum qualifications

• Understand lean product principles and how to apply them (e.g. minimum viable product) at various stages of the product life cycle in order to mitigate risk validate assumptions and amplify learning
• Can develop a product strategy that is informed by an understanding of the problem to be solved prioritizes outcomes over feature sets and establishes the direction of the product over time (e.g. product roadmap) including success criteria
• Ability to execute the product strategy by breaking down the products scope into usable chunks of value that can be realized sooner rather than later creating and maintaining a prioritized backlog with validated user stories and facilitating team ceremonies over the course of the products iterations
• Understand how to engage in the process of human-centered design in order to better inform product direction
• Ability to collaborate with folks outside of your discipline such as researchers designers engineers and others in order to get things done
• Ability to manage clients and stakeholders in a way that builds trust alignment and healthy environments for individuals and teams
• Understand the merits of different software development methodologies (e.g. agile lean) and how to put them into practice
• Past experience embedding with a client to discover recommend and build more efficient and sustainable data systems and operational processes that support service delivery.
• Experience product managing core operational data products including a strong understanding of data pipelines data warehousing and underlying infrastructure.
• Demonstrated comfort translating ambiguous or evolving needs into clear actionable requirements in partnership with policy experts and data engineers.
  Comfort defining and working with data schemas API specifications and data delivery formats.
• Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g. can communicate effectively with clients)
• A passion for creating better public outcomes through great government services
• A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values

Nice-to-have qualifications

• Prior experience and familiarity with Palantir Foundry
• Understanding of core AI/ML concepts with the ability to identify and evaluate opportunities where generative AI can deliver meaningful product or operational value.
• Prior experience working in the civic tech space
• Experience working in a remote-team environment

Dont meet 100% of the criteria but think you can do the job Wed love to chat anyway! Were on a mission to build diverse teams and studies have shown that women and marginalized folks are less likely to apply to jobs if they dont check every box.

Other requirements

• All work must be conducted within the U.S. excluding U.S. territories. Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment.
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.
• As a government contractor you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance.
• You may be required to complete a company background check successfully.
• Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.

Position type

This is a full-time exempt position.

Location

This role is on-site in Washington DC five days per week. A relocation incentive of up to $10000 is available.

Care package

Salary

We want to give you the most competitive salary possible. After all you deserve it! To that end we use the results of our interview process to determine what salary is most appropriate given your current level of seniority. For a Product Manager at Skylight the current salary ranges are as follows:

• Associate Product Manager: $90000$125000
• Product Manager I: $120000$140000
• Product Manager II: $135000$160000
• Senior Product Manager: $150000$185000
• Staff Product Manager: $170000$203000
• Principal Product Manager: $180000$230000

Benefits

Your well-being is important to us so we focus on supporting you in a variety of ways:

• Medical insurance dental insurance vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent care FSA healthcare FSA health savings account
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
• Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year) plus 11 paid federal holidays
• Up to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth adoption or foster parents
• Performance rewards including annual salary increase annual performance bonus spot bonuses and stock options
• Business development / sales bonuses
• Referral bonuses
• Annual $2000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies hats and more)
• Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching up to $500 per year
• Flexible remote-friendly work environment
• An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good

Interview tips

• Visit our join page to learn more about how our interview process works.
• Check out our Career Pathways framework to learn more about the different roles within Skylight and the skills needed to do them.
• If youd like to request reasonable accommodations during the application or interviewing process please contact our recruiting team at .

We participate in E-Verify and upon hire will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that youre authorized to work in the U.S.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin sex religion age disability veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.