Alpha Omega Integration LLC is an award-winning Federal IT Solutions provider. Since its inception in September 2016, we have grown from a start-up to a $100m/year business. Alpha Omega's growth stems from our mission focus: to make the US Government the best in the world. We achieve that via advanced capabilities in the areas of Design & Product Management, DevSecOps & Cloud Engineering, Intelligent Automation, and Cybersecurity.

Our consistent growth has fostered a series of accolades including Inc. 5000 and WashingtonTechnology's Fast 50 awards for five consecutive years, Virginia Business Best Places to Work ten years in a row, and Maryland Technology Council's 2022 Government Contract of the Year over $50 Million Dollars award, to name a few.

We are seeking passionate federal IT professionals to join our team.

Come support our nation's government agencies and make a difference!

Why Us?

We have H.E.A.R.T.! Alpha Omega's Core Values - (H) harmony, (E) engagement, (A) accountability, (R) resourcefulness, and (T) tenacity- collectively are an acrostic reminder of the values that guide the work we do.

We foster a culture that recognizes and rewards hard work. Our H.E.A.R.T. program invites colleagues and managers from across the organization to recognize each other for living out our core values. Spotlighted employees enjoy a detailed nomination about their core-values-aligned actions which are then shared with their manager.

Ready to embark on a rewarding, challenging, and fulfilling career in the Federal IT Solutions space?

Come grow with us!

Job Title: Product Manager
Work Location: Remote
Clearance Required: US Citizen, DHS Public Trust (EOD) Clearance (Secret or above strongly preferred)

Responsibilities:

Alpha Omega is looking for experienced Product Managers to join our team. On the team, it is the traditionally the responsibility of the product manager to be the voice of the business. In this case, the "business" is most likely RAIO. Due to the projects close relationship with colleagues at RAIO IDEA, product teams often have close collaboration with a representative(s) of the business. Therefore, the projects Product Managers are less needed to voice the needs of the business and more needed to balance the needs of the business, users, and technology. This balancing of business, user, and technology needs constitutes whole product thinking.

Product Managers are ultimately responsible for advocating for the product. They are more concerned about whether the team is building the right software to solve the right problem than if what they are building is "on schedule" or meeting requirements. Product Managers constantly ask themselves the question, "Is my team focusing on the most valuable thing for the product?"

• Owns product strategy; Creates and continuously updates an outcome-oriented product roadmap that reflects current product priorities
• Acts as the main conduit of information between the product team and stakeholders; communicates how the product will or does deliver business and user value
• Manages stakeholder expectations
• Prioritize what the product team should focus on by balancing business, user, and product needs
• Identifies, evaluates, and implements mitigations to product risks
• Runs "Lean Experiments" to test product assumptions, with a bias towards running those experiments in user interviews or deployed software environments
• Participates in user research efforts; encourages human-centered design thinking
• Writes small user stories with detailed acceptance criteria that engineers can implement into product features
• Advocates for frequent releases to production; supports continuous delivery by quickly conducting acceptance testing on user stories
• Measures success of features and product value by gathering metrics; values outcomes over outputs

Role: Facilitates Lean product delivery (Build, Measure, Learn cycle)

• Build
  • Writes small user storieswith detailed acceptance criteria that engineers can implement into product features
  • Advocates for frequent releases to production; supports continuous deliveryby quickly conducting acceptance testing on user stories
• Measure
  • Measures success of features and product value by gathering metrics; values outcomes over outputs
• Learn
  • Participates in user research efforts; encourages human-centered designthinking
  • Adjusts strategy, roadmap, and backlog based on learning from user research
• Product strategy and roadmaps
  • Owns product strategy; creates and continuously updates an outcome-oriented product roadmapthat reflects current product priorities
  • Runs "[Lean Experiments](https://www.shortform.com/blog/lean-experimentation-lean-startup-experiments/to test product assumptions, with a bias towards running those experiments in user interviews or deployed software environments (as opposed to validating those assumptions only with stakeholders or in mock situations)
  • Identifies, evaluates, and implements mitigations to product risks
• Prioritization
  • Prioritize what the product team should focus on by balancing business, user, and product needs and reassess product priorities frequently
• Stakeholder management
  • Acts as the main conduit of information between the product team and stakeholders; communicates how the product will or does deliver business and user value
  • Manages stakeholder expectations

Required Skills/Experience:

• 5 years' experience as a Product Manager &/or Product Designer
• Can distinguish between questions for which they can find the answer, and those that require an expert
• Lean Mindset: Thinks in small, incremental changes to the product rather than major milestones
• Easily builds trust with product teams and stakeholders
• Can differentiate between stakeholder ideas, business requests, and legal/policy considerations; understands that "specifications" or "requirements" are not validated features
• Can understand complex business domains and policy, synthesizes that information quickly and identifies patterns
• Can translate technical considerations to a non-technical audience
• Can identify when a product requires additional resources to achieve business goals and communicates those needs early to leadership
• Intellectually curious and open to learning
• Enjoys making sense of complex domains and wonky policy
• Flexible to changing priorities, especially those based on new policies or executive orders
• Forms strong opinions backed by research, but is open to changing those opinions with new evidence
• Works as a member of a balanced product team rather than as a team manager; enjoys working in a collaborative environment

Alpha Omega Integration, LLC (Alpha Omega) is committed to the development of a creative, diverse, and inclusive work environment. In accordance with the law and our organizational values, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as "protected status)". Final hiring decisions at Alpha Omega will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities.

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), LGBTQIA, women, people over 40, and differently-abled folks are strongly encouraged to apply.

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