Product Manager

Job Title: Product Manager
Clearance Required: DHS Public Trust EOD (Secret or above preferred)
Work Location: Remote;

Alpha Omega is looking for experienced Product Managers to join our team. On the team, it is traditionally the responsibility of the product manager to be the voice of the business. In this case, the "business" is most likely RAIO. Due to the projects close relationship with colleagues at RAIO IDEA, product teams often have close collaboration with a representative(s) of the business. Therefore, the projects Product Managers are less needed to voice the needs of the business and more needed to balance the needs of the business, users, and technology. This balancing of business, user, and technology needs constitutes whole product thinking.

Product Managers are ultimately responsible for advocating for the product. They are more concerned about whether the team is building the right software to solve the right problem than if what they are building is "on schedule" or meeting requirements. Product Managers constantly ask themselves the question, "Is my team focusing on the most valuable thing for the product?"

Key Responsibilities:

• Owns product strategy; Creates and continuously updates an outcome-oriented product roadmap that reflects current product priorities
• Acts as the main conduit of information between the product team and stakeholders; communicates how the product will or does deliver business and user value
• Manages stakeholder expectations
• Prioritize what the product team should focus on by balancing business, user, and product needs
• Identifies, evaluates, and implements mitigations to product risks
• Runs "Lean Experiments" to test product assumptions, with a bias towards running those experiments in user interviews or deployed software environments
• Participates in user research efforts; encourages human-centered design thinking
• Writes small user stories with detailed acceptance criteria that engineers can implement into product features
• Advocates for frequent releases to production; supports continuous delivery by quickly conducting acceptance testing on user stories
• Measures success of features and product value by gathering metrics; values outcomes over outputs

Role: Facilitates Lean product delivery (Build, Measure, Learn cycle)

• Build
• Writes small user stories with detailed acceptance criteria that engineers can implement into product features
• Advocates for frequent releases to production; supports continuous delivery by quickly conducting acceptance testing on user stories
• Measure
• Measures success of features and product value by gathering metrics; values outcomes over outputs
• Learn
• Participates in user research efforts; encourages human-centered design thinking
• Adjusts strategy, roadmap, and backlog based on learning from user research
• Product strategy and roadmaps
• Owns product strategy; creates and continuously updates an outcome-oriented product roadmap that reflects current product priorities
• Runs "[Lean Experiments](https://www.shortform.com/blog/lean-experimentation-lean-startup-experiments/ to test product assumptions, with a bias towards running those experiments in user interviews or deployed software environments (as opposed to validating those assumptions only with stakeholders or in mock situations)
• Identifies, evaluates, and implements mitigations to product risks
• Prioritization
• Prioritize what the product team should focus on by balancing business, user, and product needs and reassess product priorities frequently
• Stakeholder management
• Acts as the main conduit of information between the product team and stakeholders; communicates how the product will or does deliver business and user value
• Manages stakeholder expectations

Required Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree

Experience/Skills:

• 5 years' experience as a Product Manager &/or Product Designer
• Can distinguish between questions for which they can find the answer, and those that require an expert
• Lean Mindset: Thinks in small, incremental changes to the product rather than major milestones
• Easily builds trust with product teams and stakeholders
• Can differentiate between stakeholder ideas, business requests, and legal/policy considerations; understands that "specifications" or "requirements" are not validated features
• Can understand complex business domains and policy, synthesizes that information quickly and identifies patterns
• Can translate technical considerations to a non-technical audience
• Can identify when a product requires additional resources to achieve business goals and communicates those needs early to leadership
• Intellectually curious and open to learning
• Enjoys making sense of complex domains and wonky policy
• Flexible to changing priorities, especially those based on new policies or executive orders
• Forms strong opinions backed by research, but is open to changing those opinions with new evidence
• Works as a member of a balanced product team rather than as a team manager; enjoys working in a collaborative environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active or recent previous DHS experience highly desired

Certification(s):

• N/A

Salary and Benefit Information:

The likely salary range for this position is $115,000 - $155,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position and could fall outside of this range.

Application Deadline: December 15, 2025

Joining the Alpha Omega team entitles you to participate in all retirement benefits, plans of deferred compensation, health and insurance benefits, and other such benefits as set forth in the company's policy and benefits manuals. See below, to name a few:

• PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave
• Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company's holiday schedule each year)
• Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage under the HDHP health plan)
• Life Insurance, STD/LTD term disability coverage, with employer paid premiums
• 401 (k) plan with a match that is 100% vested after you complete two years of service
• FSA/DFSA/HSA flexible benefit plans
• Annual Tuition & Professional Development Reimbursement benefit

We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Culture and Values:

Guided by our core values-Harmony, Engagement, Accountability, Resourcefulness, and Tenacity (HEART)- we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning and are committed to delivering high-impact solutions. We recognize and reward hard work.

Through our H.E.A.R.T. Awards Program, colleagues and managers can recognize each other for actions that exemplify these values. Recognized employees receive a detailed nomination highlighting their contributions, which is shared with their manager. Each quarter, select nominees have the opportunity to receive a monetary bonus as an extra thank-you for their impact.

Our Company:

Alpha Omega is an award-winning Federal IT solutions provider dedicated to delivering mission-enabling technology and strategic solutions across the National Security, Federal Financial, Healthcare, and Space & Science domains. Since our founding in 2016, we have grown to over 800 employees nationwide with $230m in revenue. With the January 2025 acquisitions of SeKON and Macro Solutions, we have expanded our capabilities to further support our customers in digital modernization, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.

We are committed to supporting our agency partners as they transform their operations, delivering on our purpose to ensure the safety, security, and well-being of future generations:

• National Security - Supporting agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of State.
• Federal Financial - We bring deep expertise in enterprise financial systems, supporting agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
• Healthcare - Our Health IT capabilities, enhance health outcomes for the warfighter via the Defense Health Agency (DHA) and support public health initiatives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
• Space & Science - We leverage technology to advance agricultural sustainability, secure our nation's food supply, and prepare for natural disasters, working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Through strategic partnerships, intellectual property, and relentless drive for innovation, Alpha Omega is shaping the future of government technology. We are proud to be a Virginia Best Places to Work 8 times, an Inc. 5000 honoree 7 times, and a Washington Post Top Workplaces 4 times. Join us in driving transformation that secures the nation's future.

Alpha Omega Integration, LLC (Alpha Omega) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.