Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join Agile Six, a remote-first company, as a Senior Product Manager to collaborate with the Department of Veterans Affairs. You will enhance digital tools for veterans managing their benefits on VA.gov and the VA mobile app, focusing on improving clarity, accessibility, and usability. This key personnel role demands fostering a shared sense of purpose, performing product discovery, and driving agile delivery. You will manage the product backlog, prioritize problems, and communicate effectively with stakeholders. The position requires expertise in agile principles, user story writing, and product launch experience. Agile Six values self-organizing teams and a growth mindset.

Requirements

• Experience leveraging product discovery techniques that inform product vision, strategy, features, user stories, and prioritization
• Effective communicator, leader, and motivator
• In-depth knowledge and application of Agile principles and practices
• Expertise in writing user stories and acceptance criteria that convey the what and why, leaving room for the team to creatively problem solve to determine the how
• Proven track record of launching products from conception to production, and managing clients and key stakeholders
• Ability to effectively leverage one or more AI-powered prototyping tools and/or IDEs, including such tools as Vercel V0, Loveable, Replit, Copilot and Cursor, retaining oversight over all work produced by these tools
• Experience utilizing AI tools and services and other enabling technologies such as MCP servers to understand problem domains, quickly prototype and vet solutions, and support software delivery on a cross-functional team
• High level cross-disciplinary understanding of the software development process, including research, design, development, testing, and deployment
• Eagerness to grow one's AI skills and leverage AI where appropriate to improve outcomes
• Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years

Responsibilities

• Vision and Purpose Foster a shared sense of purpose. Define, communicate, and iteratively refine a clear vision that is compelling to users, stakeholders, and the team
• Establish clarity around the “why,” creating a shared sense of purpose at the sprint level so the team can self-organize around solving problems
• Discovery Develop an expert understanding of the product, domain, users, and business
• Perform continuous product discovery leveraging UX research and design capabilities on the team to identify and prioritize what needs the team will meet in order to maximize value and outcome delivery
• Communication Convey high level intent in a way that fosters creative, cross-functional problem solving, and that supports team self-organization and team member self-management (i.e. user stories, story maps, etc.)
• Communicate product strategy, roadmaps, and progress to stakeholders to empower informed decision-making
• Agile Delivery Drive product development using agile delivery best practices. Manage the product backlog and prioritize problems to be solved
• Break down problems to be solved in ways that value can be delivered iteratively and incrementally. Lead the team to early validation of risky assumptions, and early and continuous delivery of value
• Balance strategic and tactical Product Management responsibilities based on the needs of the team, stakeholders, and users
• Establish a healthy, trust-based rapport with teammates and stakeholders
• Collaboratively identify and work to understand stakeholder constraints. Develop solutions that address diverse and sometimes conflicting stakeholder needs

Preferred Qualifications

• You are a U.S. Veteran
• Experience in Government contracting / civic tech

Benefits

• Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility
• Competitive and equitable salary (equal pay for equal work)
• Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) for all employees!
• 401K matching
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Employer paid short and long term disability insurance
• Employer paid life insurance
• Self-managed and generous paid time off
• Paid federal holidays and two floating holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Self-managed professional development spending
• Self-managed wellness days