Principal Product Lead

Location: Washington, DC, USA; primarily remote with occasional in-person participation for planning, transition, training, meetings, workshops, or other program events.

Company

hirify.global delivers IT services, data expertise, and technology capabilities to government agencies focused on health and safety missions.

What you will do

• Own and refine the program-level product roadmap in alignment with government mission priorities, user needs, contractual objectives, architecture, security, data, and operations.
• Establish intake, prioritization, governance, decision rights, and transparent evaluation frameworks for product work.
• Translate mission and user needs into product strategies, roadmaps, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery backlogs.
• Coordinate sequencing, dependencies, risks, release planning, and delivery across product, engineering, data, architecture, cybersecurity, operations, vendors, and stakeholder organizations.
• Lead discovery sessions, workshops, demonstrations, roadmap reviews, decision forums, and Agile delivery events.
• Define and monitor product value, adoption, user satisfaction, operational impact, delivery progress, and mission outcomes.

Requirements

• Senior product leadership experience on a federal IT services program supporting 80 or more FTEs.
• Deep expertise in product strategy, roadmaps, discovery, stakeholder engagement, intake management, prioritization, backlogs, release planning, and value measurement.
• Strong understanding of Agile and SAFe practices, including Program Increment Planning, product ownership, backlog refinement, user stories, acceptance criteria, and iterative delivery.
• Experience working with software engineering, cloud, cybersecurity, data, analytics, AI/ML, architecture, DevSecOps, operations, and program-management teams.
• Bachelor's degree required; relevant product, Agile, or program-management certifications are preferred.
• U.S. citizenship or eligibility to obtain a government PIV credential, successful federal background investigation, required client access credentials, and E-Verify employment eligibility are required.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting federal modernization, cloud migration, enterprise data, digital services, cybersecurity, systems integration, or large-scale technology transformation programs.
• Experience with human-centered design, customer experience, service design, digital transformation, analytics-informed product management, or AI-enabled product capabilities.
• MBA or relevant master's degree and certifications such as SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, CSPO, PSPO, PMI-ACP, or PMP.

Culture & Benefits

• Primarily remote work with occasional client-directed or approved in-person participation.
• Collaboration with government stakeholders, distributed Agile delivery teams, vendors, and technical leadership.
• Flexibility to work extended hours when required by program priorities, critical delivery milestones, or client needs.
• Pre-employment screening is required.