Product Manager

We're searching for talented individuals who provide leadership support within a high performing agile delivery team to support a key government customer. This program will maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of our country's most important missions both at home and abroad. If you are ready to support a high-performing team that truly makes a difference, thencome join us!

Job Description:

We are looking for a Product Manager to use their significant intelligence and business expertise to play a key leadership role within a high performing Agile delivery team focused on delivering mission critical applications. The Product Manager will research software systems, present ideas for system improvements, and conduct impact analysis for software changes to provide high-value features to our customer. An ideal candidate is someone with a strong subject matter expertise in intelligence tradecraft and requirements analysis skills combined with the ability to clearly communicate technical concepts. This Product Manager will have applied experience working in a dynamic Agile/Scrum environment with shifting priorities and requirements under little supervision to prioritize initiative, understand functional requirements, and document findings.

The Product Manager shall possess the following capabilities:

• Derive lower-level requirements from higher-level allocated requirements that describe in detail the functions that a system component must fulfill, and ensure these requirements are complete, correct, unique, unambiguous, realizable, and verifiable.
• Establish a process to control and manage changes to requirements, consider impacts prior to commitment to change, gain stakeholder buy-in, eliminate ambiguity, ensure traceability to source requirements, and track and settle open actions formally and proactively.
• Work closely with the technical leads and software engineers to develop and modify systems requirements documentation to meet the Sponsor's need and explore potential solutions.
• Create and manage the product roadmap; facilitate and write user stories and acceptance criteria; and define, design, and develop testing protocols.
• Develop scenarios (threads) and an Operational Concept that describes the interactions between the system, the user, and the environment, that satisfies operational, support, maintenance, and disposal needs.
• Improve standard integration strategies based upon rationale for previous decisions that resulted in improved integration performance.
• Aids in coordinating the creation of user acceptance test scenarios to be used in testing the applications to verify the Sponsor's requirements are incorporated into the system design.
• Assess each risk to the program and determine the probability of occurrence and quantified consequence of failure in accordance with an approved risk management plan.
• Establish and follow a formal procedure for coordinating system integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces.
• Adapt processes to improve inefficiencies and accelerate solutions development by providing recommendations for continuous and consistent improvement.
• Translate, analyze data, and effectively report problems through written and graphical formats.
• Apply best practices in project management, including those used to initiate, plan, control, monitor, and report upon all phases of project.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
• Five (5) years subject matter expertise as an intelligence professional supporting a wide range of intelligence missions.
• Experience developing technical and/or product documentation.
• Ability to discern requirements from customer and technical exchange meetings.
• Proficient in making data-informed decisions.
• Hands-on experience building a consensus across a wide range of stakeholders.
• Strong briefing and writing skills are a must as well as the ability to work well with teams or individually with minimal supervision.

Desired Qualifications:

• Proficient in synthesizing business and/or software requirements across multiple organizations.
• Experience using Jira and other project management software in a complex engineering environment.
• Skilled with qualitative and quantitative research methods.
• Experience as a Product Owner or other stakeholder in software development.
• Capable in leading process improvements and organizational change.

Position requires active Security Clearance with appropriate Polygraph.

RealmOne is a mid-sized science and technology company dedicated to solving our customers' toughest mission challenges.

Headquartered in Columbia, MD., RealmOne supplies advanced cybersecurity, data science and software engineering services and products to customers in the Government and commercial sectors.

RealmOne has won numerous awards, to include Top Workplaces by the Baltimore Sun. Across more than 20 prime contracts, RealmOne is a premiere innovator for the Government and Department of Defense, and our team is located across the United States. RealmOne has won numerous awards, to include Top Workplaces by the Baltimore Sun. Across more than 20 prime contracts, RealmOne is a premiere innovator for the Government and Department of Defense, and our team is located across the United States.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.