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Product managers partner with researchers, designers, engineers, client stakeholders, and others to inform their product decisions. At a high level, it’s the product manager’s job to figure out what to build next and why.\nA technical product manager specializes in products with significant technical depth - platforms, APIs, data systems, or modernization efforts - where product decisions depend on fluency with the underlying architecture and engineering tradeoffs.\nThe Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is expanding surge support and capacity for its new Data Capacity and Digital Services organization within the Office of Administration, through the option year of our Task Order 1 contract. The team works with enterprise-serving organizations like ACF Tech and the Office of Grants Management to help programs deliver on ACF’s mission, including priorities focused on reducing grantee burden; reducing waste, fraud, and abuse; and modernizing legacy systems. \nYou’ll lead product work that spans rapid-turnaround surge requests and signature modernization efforts, working directly with ACF staff to decide what’s worth building and why. Much of this work sits on top of platforms like Palantir Foundry, Databricks, and enterprise AI tools, so you’ll need technical fluency to weigh architecture and data tradeoffs alongside your engineers.\nWhat to know going in\nThis work calls for a consultant’s skill set: you’ll interface directly with senior leaders, and much of the work isn’t scoped in advance. This isn’t a team where you simply prioritize existing work in a backlog. You’ll need a working understanding of service design and fluency to engage with AI-forward delivery teams, including data scientists, Foundry engineers designers and others. Alongside delivery, we do a lot of technical consulting and capacity building, so people who take initiative and are comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity tend to do best here.\nWhat you’ll do\nLead a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, engineers, and subject matter experts to build and ship high-impact products and services\nShape loosely defined, unscoped problems into a clear product strategy, including vision, objectives, measures of success, roadmap, and backlog\nTranslate policy and program requirements from ACF leadership into technical solutions the team can deliver, and keep plans current as priorities shift\nWrite and prioritize user stories, build release plans, and facilitate team ceremonies such as planning, stakeholder syncs, and retrospectives\nWork in close partnership with government teams to help them build digital skills and product knowledge throughout the course of the project\nCreatively navigate bureaucratic challenges, paving the way for more intuitive processes in the future\nWhat we’re looking for\nBasic qualifications\nCan develop a product strategy grounded in the problem to be solved, prioritizing outcomes over features, with a roadmap and clear success criteria\nApply lean and agile principles (e.g., minimum viable product) to validate assumptions early, break scope into small chunks of value, maintain a prioritized backlog of validated user stories, and facilitate ceremonies on cross-functional teams (product, design, engineering, ops)\nExperience applying service design methods, such as journey mapping, service blueprinting, and contextual inquiry, to uncover pain points, manual workarounds, and opportunities to automate or streamline\nHands-on experience delivering AI-enabled products or workflows, including judging where AI (e.g., LLMs, agents, intelligent document processing) adds value versus where simpler automation or process change is the better answer\nUnderstanding of how data moves through an organization, with the ability to spot fragmented or duplicated data and work with engineers to design more connected, reliable systems\nTechnical fluency to reason through system architecture, APIs, data modeling, security, and engineering tradeoffs with engineers, and to make product calls that depend on them\nAbility to manage clients and stakeholders in a way that builds trust, alignment, and healthy environments for individuals and teams\nA track record of defining and measuring impact, such as time saved, reduced processing times, fewer errors, or increased adoption\nA mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values\nNice-to-haves\nHands-on experience with one or more of Credal, Palantir Foundry, Databricks, or Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse)\nExperience delivering through AI-enablement with responsible AI practices, such as evaluating model outputs, designing human-in-the-loop review, and familiarity with frameworks like the NIST AI Risk Management Framework or federal AI guidance\nFamiliarity with federal security and compliance processes, such as FedRAMP and Authority to Operate (ATO), and how they shape what tools can be adopted\nAn engineering or data background, or experience taking a product from zero to one in a startup or other setting where you had to navigate uncertainty\nExperience translating policy into technical solutions and implementing it through software\nExperience modernizing legacy systems, including migrating data and workflows off spreadsheets, paper, or aging case management tools\nExperience delivering AI-forward technology in government, highly regulated industries, or other public-benefit settings\nA track record of staying aligned and accountable on remote teams\nDon’t meet every qualification but think you can do the job? We’d still love to hear from you. If you’re excited about the role, apply. We consider candidates with a range of backgrounds and experiences.\nOther requirements\nSome of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.\nAll work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories.\nYou must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.\nAn existing clearance isn’t required to apply, but as a government contractor, anyone hired into this role must be able to obtain a Tier 2 public trust background investigation.\nYou must complete a company background check successfully.\nLogistics\nPosition type\nThis is a full-time, exempt position.\nLocation\nThis is a fully remote position.\nTravel\nThis role may require travel one to two times a year based on client or contract needs.\nCare package\nSalary\nWe want to give you the most competitive salary possible. After all, you deserve it! To that end, we use the results of our interview process to determine what salary is most appropriate given your current level of seniority. For a Product Manager at Skylight, the current salary ranges are as follows:\nAssociate Product Manager: $90,000-$125,000\nProduct Manager I: $120,000-$140,000\nProduct Manager II: $135,000-$160,000\nSenior Product Manager: $150,000-$185,000\nStaff Product Manager: $170,000-$203,000\nPrincipal Product Manager: $180,000-$230,000\nBenefits\nYour well-being is important to us, so we focus on supporting you in a variety of ways:\nMedical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance\nShort-term and long-term disability insurance\nLife and AD&D insurance\nDependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account\nDollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period\nFlexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays\nUp to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents\nPerformance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options\nBusiness development / sales bonuses\nReferral bonuses\nAnnual $2000 allowance for professional development\nAnnual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases\nAnnual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)\nFlexible, remote-friendly work environment\nAn environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good\nInterview tips\nOur process includes a preliminary screen, a skills interview, a behavioral interview, and a reverse interview where you meet your potential team - usually four conversations across two to three weeks. Here are some tips to help you prepare for a successful interview:\nVisit our join page to learn more about how our interview process works.\nCheck out our Career Pathways framework to learn more about the different roles within Skylight and the skills needed to do them.\nBrowse our case studies to learn more about our work.\nIf you’d like to request reasonable accommodations during the application or interviewing process, please contact our recruiting team at .\nWe participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you’re authorized to work in the U.S.\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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