Product Manager

Company: ICF
Location: Cranston
Posted on: May 6, 2022

Job Description:

Digital Product Manager (Remote Position)Heres your chance to join our award-winning agency, ICF Next. Were changemakers, a community of mission driven creatives, communicators, strategists, and technologists. Were searching for a Digital Product Manager to work with our teams across federal, state, and local government client accounts. If you are a strategist who is passionate about translating high-level vision and goals into actionable tasks, wed love to talk to you. In this role you will set product strategy, prioritize features, build consensus, and coordinate product schedules with design and engineering teams.The Product Manager work with a cross disciplinary team supporting a digital services modernization project for a federal government client. This exciting opportunity is about helping the customer improve ways for researchers and policy makers to access data sets . The Project Manager will help define the core product vision, goals, functionality, and requirements in collaboration with the customer and project stakeholders, and work with the team to seek innovative and creative solutions to improve data access for users.Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Support development of digital product vision aligned to digital strategy and business objectives.
• Help define the core product vision, goals, functionality, and requirements.
• Establish shared vision by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution.
• Define and manage product roadmaps to realize business goals and strategies.
• Develop roadmap for products to illustrate vision and plan into the future.
• Lead road mapping, goal setting, story writing, prioritizing, project execution, and product roll-out strategy.
• Create and maintain feature backlogs and product documentation.
• Prioritize development activities with engineering teams, assist in determining the best technical implementation methods.
• Collaborate with user experience experts, visual designers and engineers to reach the best possible version of a feature or product to bring to market.
• Leverage user research and analytics to build and optimize digital experiences.
• Generate actionable insights from diverse data sources. Synthesize analysis for audiences of different levels to get buy-in for tactical and strategic plans.Education and Experience Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 3-5 years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products
  • 2+ years of experience with Agile development and lean startup principles
  • Proven track record of leading and delivering digital products and services
  • Experience weaving together user benefits, business strategy and technology into a comprehensive product strategy
  • Experience creating a framework for concept exploration, product prototyping, iteration, and deprecation
  • Track record of using qualitative and quantitative data to prioritize and drive decision-making.
  • Metrics-driven: Strong analytical and synthesis skills are a must, including the ability to process large amounts of data into actionable information.
  • Emphasis on user-driven product design and data-driven product refinement.
  • Experience leading research and applying research insights throughout the product development process using human centered design and Design Thinking
  • Comfortable using collaboration such as Confluence, Teams, Slack, and JIRA
  • Strong leadership, communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance!Blueberry!Working at ICFWorking at ICF means applying a passion for meaningful work with intellectual rigor to help solve the leading issues of our day. Smart, compassionate, innovative, committed, ICF employees tackle unprecedented challenges to benefit people, businesses, and governments around the globe. We believe in collaboration, mutual respect, open communication, and opportunity for growth.We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building an inclusive workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to hiring regardless of any protected characteristic, such as race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status, or military/veteran status. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO & AA policy (https://www.icf.com/legal/equal-employment-opportunity) .COVID-19 Policy: New or prospective U.S. employees must provide proof of complete vaccination on the date of their commencement of employment. If selected for employment, you will provide proof of your full vaccination status, defined as vaccinated two weeks after receiving the requisite number of doses of a COVID-19 vaccine approved or authorized for emergency use by the FDA.Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation please email icfcareercenter@icf.com and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations. Read more about non-discrimination: EEO is the law (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf) and Pay Transparency Statement (https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_English_unformattedESQA508c.pdf) .Virginia Remote Office (VA99)SDL2017

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