{"id":3902481,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sovra-senior-product-manager","title":"Senior Product Manager","company":{"id":1938473,"name":"SOVRA","domain":"sovra.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/sovra","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"Replit","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-06T20:57:01Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-06","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T09:55:08Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Senior Product Manager (Platform and AI)\nLocation: United States-Remote\nA note on length -this posting is intentionally longer than most. That is deliberate. It gives you a realistic preview of the role and clear guidance on how to present your application, so we suggest reading it in full.\nAbout SOVRA\nSOVRA is a leading public procurement platform trusted by more than 7,000 government agencies and over 1 million suppliers across North America. Our work sits at the intersection of technology, public service, and accountability, helping governments operate more efficiently and transparently on behalf of the communities they serve.\nWhat makes SOVRA unique is our deep focus on the public sector. Our solutions are purpose-built to solve real, complex procurement challenges, balancing compliance with usability and innovation. That commitment has been recognized with the Achievement of Excellence in Procurement (AEP) Certification from the National Procurement Institute, reflecting our high standards and impact on the market.\nAt SOVRA, the work you do matters. Every improvement we make helps public organizations stretch taxpayer dollars further, operate with greater transparency, and deliver better outcomes for millions of people. We're a growing, mission-driven company where smart, curious people come together to build technology that serves the public good.\nLearn more at sovra.com.\nAbout the job\nSOVRA is adding a Senior Product Manager, Platform and AI, a newly created position that supports a new generation of AI-native procurement products on one shared platform. The role suits someone who wants to help shape what public procurement looks like next and who is drawn to making that work better for the agencies that run it.\nThe person in this role owns a buyer-side product area on the new platform, which spans request intake, sourcing and solicitation building, evaluation, and contract lifecycle management. The role brings AI into the buyer's daily workflow, from drafting solicitations to evaluating responses, and helps agencies move from SOVRA's established platforms to the new one.\nEvery road repaired, classroom equipped, and clinic stocked starts with a procurement. The role works closely with Engineering, Design, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing, and its output is held to the standard that public sector audiences expect for accuracy, accessibility, and accountability.\nWhat will your main responsibilities look like?\nProduct Strategy & Customer Discovery\nYou spend time with agency buyers, evaluators, and contract managers, map how procurement work gets done, and frame problems worth solving before anyone writes a line of code.\n\nYou decide on evidence, combining usage data, customer interviews, solicitation analysis, win/loss feedback, and continuous market intelligence to prioritize the roadmap and shape positioning.\n\nYou write clear, testable requirements and acceptance criteria at the pace of a short release cycle, and work with the Product Owner to define and prioritize the backlog.\n\nAI Product Ownership\nYou own a buyer-side product area on the new platform, setting vision, roadmap, and priorities while balancing strategic goals, customer commitments, and engineering capacity.\n\nYou decide where AI acts, where it assists, and where a person stays in control across buyer workflows, and you define how each AI feature is evaluated and monitored in production.\n\nDelivery & Public Sector Readiness\nYou build clickable or coded prototypes with AI-assisted tools, test them with real users alongside Design before engineering commits, and use AI across your daily work.\n\nYou treat accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA and ADA), data residency and privacy, security review, public procurement law and policy, and ERP and finance integration as product features.\n\nLaunch & Commercial Performance\nYou partner with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success on launch plans, packaging, pricing, demos, and RFP responses, taking each release through SOVRA's operational-readiness gates so it can be sold, demoed, and supported.\n\nYou own adoption, retention, and commercial performance for your area, setting success metrics at launch and tracking them in product analytics, and you coach junior product managers, product owners, and business analysts.\n\nWhat will you bring to this role?\nProduct management track record - you have 5+ years in product management at a B2B, enterprise, or SaaS company, and have taken customer problems from discovery to a shipped product.\n\nAI product delivery - you have shipped AI features such as agents, copilots, or intelligent document processing, and defined how to evaluate and monitor them in production.\n\nGovernment procurement knowledge - you have working knowledge of how government buys, including solicitations and RFx, evaluation, award, contracts, and cooperative purchasing, gained inside a public agency or at a govtech, procurement, or ERP vendor.\n\nDaily applied AI practice - you use AI hands-on every day to prototype with tools such as Claude, Replit, or Cursor, synthesize research, and draft specs, with sound judgment on accuracy, data privacy, and public-sector risk.\n\nUX fluency - you run discovery and usability tests yourself, work side by side with Design, and are aware of accessibility standards such as WCAG 2.2 AA.\n\nData fluency - you define metrics, read usage analytics in tools such as PostHog or Userpilot, and make decisions on facts rather than opinions.\n\nEducational background - you hold a bachelor's degree or higher, or have equivalent experience.\n\nAuthorization to work in the US - we are not able to sponsor work visas or transfers at this time.\n\nWhat are the assets that would make you stand out?\nE-procurement domain experience - you have direct experience in e-procurement, sourcing, or contract lifecycle management.\n\nGovernment sales support - you have supported government sales through RFP responses, security questionnaires, demos, and pilots.\n\nYou should apply if\nYou are drawn to the public sector mission and want your work to help agencies spend less time on paperwork and more on outcomes for their communities.\n\nYou want to help define how AI changes the way products are discovered, specified, and built, in a setting where accuracy and accountability matter.\n\nYou are motivated by the chance to build on a new AI-native platform as it is launched at scale and to see your product area through to adoption.\n\nWhat we look for in applications\nWe review every application individually and assess it on its own merits rather than screening for keywords. The most impactful applications:\nDescribe the products or features you shipped, who used them, and the outcome, with numbers wherever you have them.\n\nWhen you name a tool, such as an AI prototyping assistant or an analytics platform, a brief note on what you used it to do tells us far more than the name alone.\n\nSpecific detail about your own work tells us more than a general summary of responsibilities.\n\nWhat does success look like?\nBy 3 months: you own the roadmap for your AI product area with success metrics in place, have an AI feature in pilot with an evaluation plan, and are the product lead for an AI product launch.\n\nBy 6 months: AI features in your area are in use by agencies, with evaluation and monitoring running in production and early adoption data shaping the roadmap.\n\nBy 12 months: you are accountable for adoption, retention, and commercial performance of your product area, and you are a trusted partner to agencies and to teams across SOVRA.\n\nOur interview process\nOur process is designed to be thorough while respecting your time. Three conversations cover the substance of the role and how you would work with the team.\nTA Screen\n\nProduct Strategy Skills\n\nTechnical Skills\n\nWhy you should join us\nSOVRA serves the public sector, and the work carries the weight that comes with that purpose. Every improvement to our platform helps government agencies operate more efficiently and deliver greater value to the communities they serve. We are a company in a period of deliberate growth, and we are looking for professionals who want genuine ownership of their work and a direct hand in building the organization around them. In this role, that ownership is real: your work in SOVRA's buyer-side AI products shapes how SOVRA builds for the agencies that run public procurement.\nOur benefits include the following, with full details shared during the hiring process:\nComprehensive health and medical coverage.\n\nPaid time off.\n\nA structured learning and development program.\n\nPaid parental leave.\n\nIf this role aligns with your experience and ambitions, we encourage you to apply.\nThank you for your interest in SOVRA. However, only selected candidates will be contacted.\nAt SOVRA, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We provide a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. In addition, we are committed to ensuring pay equity across our organization and regularly review our compensation practices.\nInternational Data Base Corp doing business under SOVRA™ participates in E-Verify. 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