About the Role We're hiring a mid-level Project Manager who also brings hands-on product management experience and can serve in a Product Owner capacity when needed. You'll coordinate complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams and help shape product strategy and delivery in close partnership with a Federal Lead and cross-functional teams (content, development, research, design). This hybrid PM/PO role is designed for mission-driven programs that use agile methods to deliver measurable outcomes for federal health clients.
What You'll Do Core Project Management
- Project Planning & Execution: Lead day-to-day project planning, execution, and delivery across cross-functional teams; own schedule, scope, budget, risks, and reporting.
- Financial Management: Track project financials, including budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis; ensure compliance with contract and organizational financial controls.
- Reporting: Prepare and deliver weekly/monthly status reports, dashboards, and executive summaries for internal and client stakeholders.
- Staffing & Resource Management: Coordinate staffing plans, onboarding, and resource allocation; monitor utilization and adjust as needed.
- Client Engagement: Serve as primary point of contact for client communications; build strong relationships and ensure satisfaction with deliverables.
- Subcontractor Management: Oversee subcontractor engagement, including onboarding, deliverable tracking, and compliance with contractual obligations.
- Business Development Support: Contribute to proposals, pricing exercises, and solutioning for new opportunities; provide subject matter input on project delivery and product management.
- Risk & Issue Management: Maintain risk registers and mitigation plans; escalate issues promptly and drive resolution.
- Compliance: Ensure adherence to federal standards, accessibility requirements, and organizational policies.
Product Management
- Serve as the primary liaison between stakeholders and the broader team (content, development, research, design); coordinate cross-functional collaborations.
- Ensure alignment with product vision/mission, strategic objectives, and user needs; steward product outcomes and value.
- Own and refine the product backlog and roadmap; translate insights and policy priorities into epics, features, and user stories with acceptance criteria.
- Partner closely with the Federal Lead to strategize and discuss product decisions, balancing user value, compliance, and feasibility.
- Work with Federal Product lead to establish appropriate OKRs, and use KPIs to continuously track product performance.
- Facilitate discovery (user research, analytics, feedback channels) and guide prioritization based on evidence and measurable impact.
Minimum Qualifications - Minimum 5 years of progressive project management experience delivering digital products or platforms, including work with public-sector or highly regulated environments.
- Minimum 1 year of experience working on projects in health, scientific or research domains
- A bachelor's degree in a related area, such as health, science or technology, is required.
- Eligible to obtain public trust clearance.
Required Professional Skills - Demonstrated product management experience: backlog/roadmap ownership, writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and partnering with design/research/engineering.
- Proficiency with Agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban) and tools (Azure DevOps, Jira); strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent written/verbal communication; ability to synthesize complex information for executive and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications & Certifications - Project Management: PMP , PMI-ACP , or equivalent.
- Product / Agile: CSPO or PSPO (Scrum Alliance / Scrum.org), SAFe POPM, ICAgile PO, or AIPMM/Pragmatic product certifications.
- Experience in federal health digital delivery (e.g., human-centered design, Section 508 accessibility, data/privacy compliance, cloud/SaaS governance).
- Familiarity with analytics (e.g., GA4), A/B testing, and outcome-based roadmaps
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The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:
$89,649.00 - $152,404.00
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