Product Manager

]Responsibilities:

• Define the vision, goals, and measures of success for the products and services you manage
• Work with designers, business analysts, and technical leads to discover and synthesize market research, user needs, business requirements, and technical approaches
• Define the direction, scope, and priority of projects, from high level initiatives to specific features, user stories, and business metrics
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop and ship projects
• Proactively socialize, iterate on, and build buy-in for product initiatives with the team, government partners, and other contractors
• Collaborate with the project management team to prioritize roadmap and inbound units of work
• Represent Tista’s outcome-centric and user-centric approach in discovery meetings with agencies and contractorsUnderstand and communicate the needs of end users and population segments we serve and government partners we work with
• Measure product progress towards business goals or user needs and translate data insights into action
• Make tactical decisions to improve the design, define requirements, and generate stakeholder buy-in for our desired path forward

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience as a Product Manager of a cross-functional team
• Experience running and/or shipping consumer web applications
• Ability to generate very strong product plans and build buy-in across the team, our government partners, and other contractors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical, user experience, and project management trade-offs; enthusiastic communicator
• Strong bias towards action; ability to step up into team gaps and ambiguous situations to structure the team’s action plan
• Ability to execute with incomplete information; great product instincts and an ability to create order from divergent needs
• Ability to define a product objective, and logically reverse engineer the path and communications to achieve the objective
• Ability to identify market trends and shifts that will affect product direction, and updating plans based on future expectations
• An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Public Trust

• Mostly remote with some onsite support in Washington DC

TISTA is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.