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About the role
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 their product decisions. At a high level, it’s the product manager’s job to figure out what to build next and why. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Can develop a product strategy grounded in the problem to be solved, prioritizing outcomes over features, with a roadmap and clear success criteria
- Experience applying service design methods, such as journey mapping, service blueprinting, and contextual inquiry, to uncover pain points, manual workarounds, and opportunities to automate or streamline
- Understanding of how data moves through an organization, with the ability to spot fragmented or duplicated data and work with engineers to design more connected, reliable systems
- Technical fluency to reason through system architecture, APIs, data modeling, security, and engineering tradeoffs with engineers, and to make product calls that depend on them
- Ability to manage clients and stakeholders in a way that builds trust, alignment, and healthy environments for individuals and teams
- A track record of defining and measuring impact, such as time saved, reduced processing times, fewer errors, or increased adoption
More about this role
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.
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 their product decisions. At a high level, it’s the product manager’s job to figure out what to build next and why.
A technical product manager specializes in products with significant technical depth — platforms, APIs, data systems, or modernization efforts — where product decisions depend on fluency with the underlying architecture and engineering tradeoffs.
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