Staff Product Manager, DevOps

Summary

Join Skylight, a digital consultancy reinventing government services, as a DevOps-focused Technical Product Manager. You will lead cross-functional teams to build impactful products, translate user needs into product strategies, and manage product initiatives from research to scalable solutions. Responsibilities include writing user stories, prioritizing tasks, facilitating team meetings, and collaborating with government partners. The ideal candidate possesses experience leading cloud infrastructure projects, understands DevOps practices, and can translate client feedback into actionable priorities. Skylight offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible, remote-friendly work environment.

Requirements

• Experience leading cloud infrastructure or on-premise infrastructure project
• Enough understanding of modern DevOps practices to meaningfully engage with and lead DevOps teams and help prioritize technical decisions and architecture
• Ability to take feedback from clients and translate it into priorities for the team to address
• Understanding of lean product principles and how to apply them (e.g., minimum viable product) at various stages of the product life cycle in order to mitigate risk, validate assumptions, and amplify learning
• Ability to develop a product strategy informed by an understanding of the problem to be solved, prioritize outcomes over feature sets, and establish the direction of the product over time (e.g., product roadmap), including success criteria
• Ability to execute the product strategy by breaking down the product’s scope into usable chunks of value that can be realized sooner rather than later, create and maintain a prioritized backlog with validated user stories, and facilitate team ceremonies
• Understanding of how to engage in the process of human-centered design in order to better inform product direction
• Ability to collaborate with team members and partners outside of your discipline, such as researchers, designers, engineers, and others
• Ability to manage clients and stakeholders in a way that builds trust, alignment, and a healthy environment for individuals and teams
• Understanding of the merits of different software development methodologies (e.g., agile, lean) and how to put them into practice
• Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
• Passion for creating better public outcomes through great government services
• A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
• Ability to travel for work from time to time
• All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories
• Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship
• As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance
• You may be required to complete a company background check successfully
• Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, engineers, and subject matter experts to build and ship high-impact products and services
• Translate needs from users and government partners into a product strategy, including vision, objectives, measures of success, product roadmap, and product backlog
• Manage the direction, scope, and priorities of the product initiative, building from user research to minimum viable products to scalable solutions
• Write user stories, prioritize stories, and build release plans
• Facilitate team ceremonies such as planning meetings, stakeholder syncs, and retrospectives
• Draw on data and feedback to inform the product strategy and roadmap
• Work in close partnership with government teams to transfer digital skills and product knowledge throughout the course of the project
• Creatively navigate bureaucratic challenges, paving the way for more intuitive processes in the future
• Collaborate with government partners to ensure compatibility with existing processes and technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and other orchestration management tooling
• Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker
• Background in modernization projects such as server upgrades, database migrations, or cloud transitions
• Familiarity with GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows
• Exposure to vulnerability management and handling of end-of-life (EOL) tooling
• Experience working in FISMA High or Medium environments and navigating government security compliance (e.g., ATO/ATD processes, Privacy Impact Assessments)
• Strong customer engagement skills and experience implementing technical solutions in collaboration with clients
• Knowledge of public health systems integration, including familiarity with HL7, FHIR, or other public health data exchange standards
• Prior experience working in the civic tech space
• Experience working in a remote team environment

Benefits

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
• Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
• Up to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
• Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
• Business development / sales bonuses
• Referral bonuses
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
• Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good