Technical Product Manager

Job Title

Technical Product Manager

Location

McLean, VA 22102 US (Primary)

Category

Research, Development, and Engineering

Job Type

Full-Time

Career Level

Staff

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Travel

Security Clearance Required

None

Job Description

Prescient Edge is seeking a Technical Product Manager to support a government client.

The satellite industry is continuing to evolve with higher throughput satellites with dynamic payloads in the GEO, MEO, and LEO orbits. As the pace of new launches in space increases, the complexity of tracking satellites for space operations also increases. Prescient Edge is developing the next generation of space intelligence tools for a more contested, congested space domain. Our technology focus areas include cloud-enabled architecture, platform security, space ISR, and end-to-end service orchestration.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for evaluating and prioritizing backlog of features, enhancements and bugs fixes based on business, customer, and strategic value.
• Initiate and sustain productive relationships with identified customers and their product management, technical leadership, and solution delivery organizations.
• Serve as customer proxy with internal stakeholders (e.g. Product Owners, Engineering, Sales), balancing needs of customer with business requirements.
• Management of process for evaluating all new product/feature/solutions requests.
• Gather and analyze data required to develop business requirements required for business case creation in support of request.
• Develop and deliver comprehensive business cases (market need, feature analysis, customer identification and financial forecasting).
• Running business case through comprehensive Decision Tree process.
• Work with assigned development team to translate requirements into executable product use cases, scenarios, and acceptable criteria.
• Be a subject matter expert related to products and technical best practices.
• Identification and escalation of issues/obstacles to delivering the product as defined.
• Responsible for delivering a complete system to the customer.
• Responsible for delivering finished product (including documentation, adequate testing, appropriate functional and performance capabilities) as co-defined with the customer Technical Lead. 

Job Requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Must be a U.S. citizen. 
• AGILE or product management certifications or courses desired
• 2 years’ Product Management experience in the space, security, or defense sectors.
• Experience with various security maturity models and standards.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively represent the company to external audiences.
• Business acumen: ability to conduct financial and data analysis, construct and communicate recommendations in a business context.
• Technical acumen: ability to understand key technical aspects of the product.
• Prior collaboration with Product Owners to translate market and customer needs into consumable epics and stories with acceptance criteria for engineering organization.
• Ability to lead cross functional teams and drive projects to successful outcomes.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills.

Location:

• McLean, VA.

 

Prescient Edge is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) founded as a counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) company in 2008. We are a global operations and solutions integrator delivering full-spectrum intelligence analysis support, training, security, and RD&E support solutions to the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community. Prescient Edge is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by law. We strive to foster equity and inclusion throughout our organization because we believe that diversity of thought is critical for creating a safe and engaging work environment while also enabling the organization’s success.