Job Requirements
Remote
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph not specified
Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)
$175,000 - $185,000
Job Description
For more than a decade, Karthik Consulting has been a reliable and trusted advisor to our Government customers, providing independent and unbiased recommendations and solutions to mitigate risk and help solve IT issues. We bring the innovation, passion, and agility of the commercial sector to meet the unique challenges of this competitive space.
Karthik Consulting is seeking Technical Product Manager with the below skillset.
Technical Product Manager
Fulltime with Karthik Consulting
Location: Remote within United States
Clearance: Active TS/SCI
Salary: $185000 per year
Program Description
SPA is seeking a Technical Product Manager to drive product strategy, roadmap development, and mission focused technical engagement for our platform as a service solution supporting software delivery for Space Systems Command. This role serves as one of four primary liaisons between various mission stakeholders and platform engineering, ensuring platform capabilities align with customer priorities while advancing the long-term platform vision. As a Technical Product Manager, you will work directly with mission teams to understand operational challenges, identify opportunities for platform innovation, and translate customer needs into prioritized product capabilities. Working closely with engineering teams, you will recommend product direction, advise on the platform roadmap, prioritize competing requirements within your assigned mission area, and ensure platform initiatives deliver measurable mission value. The ideal candidate combines strong product management experience with a solid technical foundation in cloud-native platforms, software engineering, and DevSecOps. You are comfortable engaging with senior mission stakeholders and engineering teams alike, asking insightful technical questions, evaluating solution tradeoffs, and making informed product decisions that balance mission needs, technical feasibility, security, and long-term platform sustainability.
Key Responsibilities Include:
• Serve as the primary product owner for assigned mission area platform user, representing customer priorities while maintaining alignment with the long-term platform strategy.
• Lead mission-focused technical engagement with stakeholders to understand operational challenges, gather product requirements, and identify opportunities for new platform capabilities.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate a prioritized product roadmap that balances mission value, engineering effort, technical debt, security, and operational sustainability.
• Define product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics that enable engineering teams to deliver high-quality platform capabilities.
• Partner with platform engineers, software engineers, cybersecurity specialists, and mission stakeholders to evaluate solution alternatives, technical tradeoffs, and implementation approaches.
• Facilitate product planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and feature prioritization to ensure engineering efforts align with mission objectives.
• Analyze customer feedback, operational metrics, and platform usage data to continuously improve the developer experience and platform capabilities.
• Identify recurring customer needs and translate common requirements into scalable platform services that benefit multiple mission teams.
• Communicate product vision, roadmap priorities, feature status, and release plans to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ensure delivered capabilities satisfy customer expectations, support platform engineering standards, and contribute to long-term platform evolution.
• Build trusted relationships across engineering teams and mission stakeholders through technical credibility, transparency, and effective communication.
• Continuously evaluate industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities that improve platform capabilities and mission outcomes.
Expected Outcomes:
• Improve customer satisfaction by translating operational needs into well-defined, high-value engineering initiatives.
• Increase engineering effectiveness through clear product requirements, prioritized backlogs, and transparent roadmap management.
• Strengthen collaboration and trust between mission stakeholders and platform engineering through consistent, mission focused technical engagement.
• Drive continuous improvement of the platform by balancing customer needs, engineering priorities, operational performance, and strategic platform investments.
This is a fully remote/hybrid position.
About the Must Haves
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible experience designing, building, and operating production platforms.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance
• United States citizenship
• Demonstrated experience managing technical products, platforms, or cloud-native services by defining product strategy, developing roadmaps, prioritizing backlogs, and delivering customer-focused capabilities.
• Strong technical understanding of modern software development, cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, and platform engineering sufficient to evaluate engineering tradeoffs and effectively partner with technical teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead mission focused technical engagement by gathering customer requirements, building trusted relationships, and translating operational needs into actionable product requirements.
• Experience balancing competing priorities, customer expectations, engineering capacity, security requirements, and long-term platform strategy to maximize mission value.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership, mission stakeholders, and multidisciplinary engineering teams while influencing decisions through technical credibility and sound product judgment.
Karthik Consulting is seeking Technical Product Manager with the below skillset.
Technical Product Manager
Fulltime with Karthik Consulting
Location: Remote within United States
Clearance: Active TS/SCI
Salary: $185000 per year
Program Description
SPA is seeking a Technical Product Manager to drive product strategy, roadmap development, and mission focused technical engagement for our platform as a service solution supporting software delivery for Space Systems Command. This role serves as one of four primary liaisons between various mission stakeholders and platform engineering, ensuring platform capabilities align with customer priorities while advancing the long-term platform vision. As a Technical Product Manager, you will work directly with mission teams to understand operational challenges, identify opportunities for platform innovation, and translate customer needs into prioritized product capabilities. Working closely with engineering teams, you will recommend product direction, advise on the platform roadmap, prioritize competing requirements within your assigned mission area, and ensure platform initiatives deliver measurable mission value. The ideal candidate combines strong product management experience with a solid technical foundation in cloud-native platforms, software engineering, and DevSecOps. You are comfortable engaging with senior mission stakeholders and engineering teams alike, asking insightful technical questions, evaluating solution tradeoffs, and making informed product decisions that balance mission needs, technical feasibility, security, and long-term platform sustainability.
Key Responsibilities Include:
• Serve as the primary product owner for assigned mission area platform user, representing customer priorities while maintaining alignment with the long-term platform strategy.
• Lead mission-focused technical engagement with stakeholders to understand operational challenges, gather product requirements, and identify opportunities for new platform capabilities.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate a prioritized product roadmap that balances mission value, engineering effort, technical debt, security, and operational sustainability.
• Define product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics that enable engineering teams to deliver high-quality platform capabilities.
• Partner with platform engineers, software engineers, cybersecurity specialists, and mission stakeholders to evaluate solution alternatives, technical tradeoffs, and implementation approaches.
• Facilitate product planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and feature prioritization to ensure engineering efforts align with mission objectives.
• Analyze customer feedback, operational metrics, and platform usage data to continuously improve the developer experience and platform capabilities.
• Identify recurring customer needs and translate common requirements into scalable platform services that benefit multiple mission teams.
• Communicate product vision, roadmap priorities, feature status, and release plans to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ensure delivered capabilities satisfy customer expectations, support platform engineering standards, and contribute to long-term platform evolution.
• Build trusted relationships across engineering teams and mission stakeholders through technical credibility, transparency, and effective communication.
• Continuously evaluate industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities that improve platform capabilities and mission outcomes.
Expected Outcomes:
• Improve customer satisfaction by translating operational needs into well-defined, high-value engineering initiatives.
• Increase engineering effectiveness through clear product requirements, prioritized backlogs, and transparent roadmap management.
• Strengthen collaboration and trust between mission stakeholders and platform engineering through consistent, mission focused technical engagement.
• Drive continuous improvement of the platform by balancing customer needs, engineering priorities, operational performance, and strategic platform investments.
This is a fully remote/hybrid position.
About the Must Haves
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible experience designing, building, and operating production platforms.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance
• United States citizenship
• Demonstrated experience managing technical products, platforms, or cloud-native services by defining product strategy, developing roadmaps, prioritizing backlogs, and delivering customer-focused capabilities.
• Strong technical understanding of modern software development, cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, and platform engineering sufficient to evaluate engineering tradeoffs and effectively partner with technical teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead mission focused technical engagement by gathering customer requirements, building trusted relationships, and translating operational needs into actionable product requirements.
• Experience balancing competing priorities, customer expectations, engineering capacity, security requirements, and long-term platform strategy to maximize mission value.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership, mission stakeholders, and multidisciplinary engineering teams while influencing decisions through technical credibility and sound product judgment.
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