Staff Product Manager, Technical (HHS)
Fully remote Staff Product Manager at Skylight, a digital consultancy for government agencies, driving HHS OCIO digital-modernization workstreams from enterprise platform strategy to shipped digital services — partnering with designers, researchers, and engineers on roadmaps, backlogs, prototyping, and technical decisions.
- Compensation
- $170K–$203K / yr
- Location
- United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Understand lean product principles and how to apply them (e.g., MVP) across the product life cycle
- Develop a product strategy and roadmap with success criteria, prioritizing outcomes over feature sets
- Execute strategy by breaking scope into usable chunks, maintaining a prioritized backlog with validated user stories, and facilitating team ceremonies
- Understand human-centered design to inform product direction
- Collaborate across disciplines (researchers, designers, engineers)
- Manage clients and stakeholders building trust and alignment
- Understand software development methodologies (e.g., agile, lean)
- Product experience with data ingestion and normalization across many sources (APIs, batch exports, streaming) and technical depth for warehouse/data modeling tradeoffs
- Experience on cross-functional teams (product, design, engineering, ops) in iterative delivery
- Mindset and work approach aligned with Skylight's core values
- Degree or additional years of experience (per federal contract requirements)
- All work conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship
- Able to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance
- Successfully complete a company background check
Nice to have
- Experience with multi-tenant cloud environments, enterprise platform consolidation, tenant rationalization, shared services, or cross-organizational platform adoption
- Experience delivering data and analytics products (ingestion, APIs, pipelines, warehouses/lakehouses, modeling, access controls)
- Experience with enterprise integration patterns (IAM, SSO, APIs, data-sharing workflows)
- Experience taking a prototype or internal tool through production hardening, launch, and operations
- Experience modernizing legacy applications or replacing manual processes with digital services
- Experience supporting organizational change, product adoption, migrations, or onboarding to shared services
- Experience delivering technology in government, regulated industries, or large federated organizations
- Experience with federal CIO or enterprise IT organizations with distributed technology ownership
- Track record of staying aligned and accountable on remote teams
Full description
About Skylight
Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.
We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today’s digital world.
If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.
The work we do matters.
About the job
At Skylight, product managers are responsible for strategy, planning, execution, stakeholder management, and team health. Product managers partner with researchers, designers, engineers, client stakeholders, and others to inform product decisions. At a high level, it’s the product manager’s job to figure out what to build next, why it matters, and how to turn that direction into something a multidisciplinary team can deliver.
A technical product manager specializes in work with significant technical depth — enterprise platforms, cloud environments, APIs, data systems, integrations, and application modernization — where product decisions depend on understanding the underlying architecture, operational constraints, and engineering tradeoffs.
Skylight supports HHS’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) across a growing portfolio of high-visibility digital modernization work. New initiatives can arrive quickly and without fully defined requirements, users, technical approaches, or implementation plans. We need a Staff Product Manager who can bring structure to that ambiguity and help HHS move from a problem or mandate to an actionable strategy, roadmap, and delivered outcome.
The work spans two related areas:
- Enterprise platform optimization. Helping HHS make better use of enterprise platforms by identifying shared needs across Divisions, shaping platform and integration strategies, establishing scalable patterns, and supporting adoption of shared services.
- Modern digital services and applications. Leading multidisciplinary teams that design, build, launch, and continuously improve production-ready digital services and applications — from early discovery and prototypes through enterprise-scale implementation and ongoing operations.
You’ll own one or more workstreams and flex between strategic product leadership and hands-on delivery. Depending on the initiative, you may help define an emerging enterprise platform strategy, conduct discovery with HHS Divisions, turn an operational problem into a product roadmap, guide a prototype toward production, or lead the continued development of an existing digital service.