Staff Product Manager, Technical (HHS)

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About Skylight

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.

We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today’s digital world.

If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.

The work we do matters.

About the job

At Skylight, product managers are responsible for strategy, planning, execution, stakeholder management, and team health. Product managers partner with researchers, designers, engineers, client stakeholders, and others to inform product decisions. At a high level, it’s the product manager’s job to figure out what to build next, why it matters, and how to turn that direction into something a multidisciplinary team can deliver.

A technical product manager specializes in work with significant technical depth — enterprise platforms, cloud environments, APIs, data systems, integrations, and application modernization — where product decisions depend on understanding the underlying architecture, operational constraints, and engineering tradeoffs.

Skylight supports HHS’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) across a growing portfolio of high-visibility digital modernization work. New initiatives can arrive quickly and without fully defined requirements, users, technical approaches, or implementation plans. We need a Staff Product Manager who can bring structure to that ambiguity and help HHS move from a problem or mandate to an actionable strategy, roadmap, and delivered outcome.

The work spans two related areas

• Enterprise platform optimization. Helping HHS make better use of enterprise platforms by identifying shared needs across Divisions, shaping platform and integration strategies, establishing scalable patterns, and supporting adoption of shared services.
• Modern digital services and applications. Leading multidisciplinary teams that design, build, launch, and continuously improve production-ready digital services and applications — from early discovery and prototypes through enterprise-scale implementation and ongoing operations.

You’ll own one or more workstreams and flex between strategic product leadership and hands-on delivery. Depending on the initiative, you may help define an emerging enterprise platform strategy, conduct discovery with HHS Divisions, turn an operational problem into a product roadmap, guide a prototype toward production, or lead the continued development of an existing digital service.

What to know going in

This is not a role where every project arrives with a defined product, backlog, technical architecture, or implementation plan.

Some workstreams will begin with questions like: What problem are we actually trying to solve? Which HHS Divisions need this capability? Should this be a shared enterprise service or a Division-sp
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&D insurance

• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
• Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
• Up to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
• Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
• Business development / sales bonuses
• Referral bonuses
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good

Interview tips

Our process includes a preliminary screen, a skills interview, a behavioral interview, and a reverse interview where you meet your potential team — usually four conversations across two to three weeks. Here are some tips to help you prepare for a successful interview:

• Visit our join page to learn more about how our interview process works.
• Check out our Career Pathways framework to learn more about the different roles within Skylight and the skills needed to do them.
• Browse our case studies to learn more about our work.

If you’d like to request reasonable accommodations during the application or interviewing process, please contact our recruiting team at recruiting@skylight.digital .

We participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you’re authorized to work in the U.S.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.