Product Manager (Remote)

The Work
Our Digital Modernization Division delivers integrated technology and management consulting services helping clients design build and operate high performance digital platforms.

The Product Manager will own product direction and execution for a complex enterprise workflow/platform initiative ensuring delivery of mission outcomes through disciplined product management stakeholder alignment and iterative delivery within a regulated environment.

Job Location
Remote (U.S.-based). Occasional onsite meetings in Washington D.C. may be required depending on client needs.
*If you accept this position you should note that ICF does monitor employee work locations blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses and prohibits personal VPN connections.

What You Will Do
You will serve as the primary product owner and decision authority for an enterprise platform balancing mission priorities user needs technical constraints and delivery realities within a federal context.
You will define and evolve the product vision roadmap and success criteria translating agency objectives and user needs into actionable epics features and backlog priorities that drive measurable outcomes adoption and operational value.
You will own and manage the product backlog endtoend ensuring highquality user stories and acceptance criteria clear prioritization based on value and risk and alignment with architectural and security requirements.
You will lead roadmap and release planning defining MVP scope sequencing capabilities across releases managing tradeoffs across scope schedule and risk and ensuring readiness for incremental deployments in compliancedriven environments.
You will guide Agile delivery execution facilitating sprint planning backlog refinement demos and retrospectives and ensuring alignment with definitions of ready and done to maintain predictable highquality delivery.
You will partner closely with engineering architecture security and enterprise governance stakeholders to ensure technical feasibility manage technical debt and embed nonfunctional requirements including security performance auditability and compliance directly into the product backlog.
You will own endtoend validation of delivered functionality coordinating UAT activities supporting test strategy alignment triaging defects and verifying that delivered capabilities meet user needs and acceptance criteria.
You will manage delivery risk and transparency by maintaining RAID logs dependency tracking and delivery metrics and by providing clear executiveready status reporting to government and internal stakeholders.
You will support governance and operational readiness by ensuring product documentation decision logs release notes and handoff materials are complete accurate and usable for downstream operations and sustainment teams.
You will provide leadership coaching and mentorship to project managers technical leads and delivery staff fostering strong collaboration and accountability across distributed teams.

What You Will Bring With You
Bachelors degree in a related field (or equivalent experience).
6 years of experience in Product Management or Technical Product Management leading enterprise platforms in Agile delivery environments with demonstrated accountability for delivery outcomes.
5 years of experience serving as a primary product owner or product lead with authority to prioritize backlogs make tradeoff decisions and balance mission needs value risk and delivery constraints.
5 years of experience coordinating crossfunctional teams including engineering UX QA security SMEs and governance stakeholders while managing complex and competing stakeholder expectations.
4 years of experience defining and managing product roadmaps MVP scope and release plans for enterprise or platformbased solutions including incremental delivery in regulated environments.
4 years of experience writing highquality epics features user stories and acceptance criteria and maintaining backlog health to support predictable sprint execution.
3 years of experience supporting federal clients or regulated programs with familiarity operating within compliancedriven policyoriented delivery models (USDA experience is a plus).
Ability to obtain and maintain required background checks/clearances as applicable to contract requirements.

What We Would Like You To Bring With You (Preferred)
Masters degree
Experience delivering on Salesforce based or other enterprise workflow platforms.
Familiarity with APIenabled integrationheavy product ecosystems.
PMP PMI ACP CSM/CSPO SAFe or equivalent certifications (nice to have).

Professional Skills
Strong product ownership mindset with accountability for outcomes not just delivery.
Ability to translate mission needs and policy objectives into executable product plans.
Excellent facilitation prioritization and decisionmaking skills.
Clear concise written and verbal communication including executivelevel reporting.
Comfort operating in ambiguity and driving progress in complex environments.

Working at ICF

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position including but not limited to relevant work experience skills certifications and competencies that align to the specified role geographic location education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: