Product Manager
$100,000–$150,000 year
On-siteMcLean, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Champion and facilitate Agile Scrum ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives to drive team alignment and continuous delivery. Collaborate closely with client stakeholders, designers, and engineers to ensure shared understanding of product goals, user needs, and technical feasibility while applying design thinking practices to improve problem-solving. Maintain and optimize Agile artifacts in Jira to promote transparency, support backlog management by ensuring stories are well-defined and aligned with sprint goals, and serve as a facilitator and coach for Agile best practices. Partner with product owners to define priorities, identify opportunities for MVP delivery, and refine roadmap items based on feedback. Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health, and DoD sectors through a Human-Centered delivery methodology.
Required Qualifications
- Ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance
- Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of experience or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
- 5+ years of experience with Scrum/Kanban Methodologies
- 5+ years of experience serving as a Product Owner or Scrum Master
- Ability to establish immediate credibility with clients, build consensus, and achieve goals through influence
- Ability to help teams write user stories/epics, identify dependencies, and design optimal solutions
- Flexibility to work with teams, individuals, and executives and willingness to help with a wide variety of work products and people
- Excellent interpersonal/communication skills
- Experience working in a studio / human centered design approach
- Active Secret/Top Secret Clearance
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