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Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented AI Product Manager to join our team! In this role you will get to provide strategic and operational guidance to teams developing AI-enabled solutions. This role is suited for an experienced product-oriented professional who can help shape priorities, align stakeholders, drive disciplined execution, and keep technical efforts focused on mission value. This individual does not need to be a software engineer, but should possess strong technical fluency and enough AI literacy to engage credibly with engineers, data scientists, platform teams, and government leadership. The ideal candidate understands how to translate mission needs into executable plans, keep complex efforts on track, and identify when programs are drifting from useful outcomes. Above all, we want someone with authentic curiosity and passion—someone who actively studies the AI landscape, learns continuously, and brings informed perspective to a fast-changing field. .
What You'll Be Doing:
- Provide SETA advisory support to government leadership and technical teams on AI product strategy, planning, and execution.
- Help define and refine AI use cases, product goals, success criteria, priorities, and delivery roadmaps.
- Guide teams in aligning AI solution development with mission outcomes, user needs, operational constraints, and program objectives.
- Monitor effort execution and help keep teams on track with milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision points.
- Support requirements development, backlog shaping, capability prioritization, and stakeholder coordination.
- Translate between technical teams and non-technical leadership, ensuring shared understanding of what is being built, why it matters, and what risks exist.
- Advise on AI adoption challenges, including scope control, change management, user trust, operational fit, and realistic implementation sequencing.
- Review proposed AI solutions for feasibility, mission relevance, and alignment with available resources and timelines.
- Support briefings, planning artifacts, concept papers, product documentation, and executive communications.
- Help identify when teams need course correction, sharper problem framing, better metrics, or more disciplined execution.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Min 18 years with Bachelors, 15 years with Masters degree in a relevant field such as Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Operations, or related discipline.
- Experience in product management, technical program support, capability delivery, or requirements management in a government, defense, or complex enterprise environment.
- Demonstrated ability to work with technical teams building software, data, AI, or digital solutions.
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle concepts, roadmap planning, prioritization, stakeholder management, and execution tracking.
- Familiarity with AI concepts, terminology, current capabilities, and practical implementation challenges.
- Ability to advise leadership while also engaging productively with engineers and solution teams.
- Excellent written, verbal, and briefing skills.
- Active TS SCI w/Polygraph security clearance required
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- Experience supporting AI, data, analytics, or software modernization efforts.
- Familiarity with Agile, SAFe, DevSecOps, or iterative capability delivery models.
- Ability to understand technical topics such as LLMs, AI tools, cloud platforms, agentic workflows, evaluation, and data dependencies without needing to be a hands-on developer.
- Experience in defense, cyber, or operational mission environments.
- Background in technology strategy, innovation support, requirements development, or portfolio management.
Security Clearance Requirement:
An active Top Secret SCI w/Polygraph security clearance is required for this position.This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.Salary Range: $157,500.00 - $283,500.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.
Skills Required
- Minimum 18 years experience with Bachelor's degree or 15 years with Master's in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Operations, or related field.
- Experience in product management, technical program support, capability delivery, or requirements management in a government, defense, or complex enterprise environment.
- Demonstrated ability to work with technical teams building software, data, AI, or digital solutions.
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle concepts, roadmap planning, prioritization, stakeholder management, and execution tracking.
- Familiarity with AI concepts, terminology, current capabilities, and practical implementation challenges.
- Ability to advise leadership while also engaging productively with engineers and solution teams.
- Excellent written, verbal, and briefing skills.
- Active Top Secret SCI with Polygraph security clearance required.
- Experience supporting AI, data, analytics, or software modernization efforts.
- Familiarity with Agile, SAFe, DevSecOps, or iterative capability delivery models.
- Ability to understand topics such as LLMs, AI tools, cloud platforms, agentic workflows, evaluation, and data dependencies without being a hands-on developer.
- Experience in defense, cyber, or operational mission environments.
- Background in technology strategy, innovation support, requirements development, or portfolio management.
Parsons Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Parsons Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Parsons Corporation.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
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