Product Manager II (Web Application Experience Required)

Fearless complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and candidates with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please email [email protected] to submit a formal request to Human Resources. 

Compensation

Our Compensation System is designed to reward remarkable work, grow your impact and support the whole “you” over the course of your career.

We believe in paying people fairly, so we've established a compensation model aimed to ensure everyone at Fearless — regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, nationality, or negotiation skills — is given equal pay for equal work. 

• AL, FL, GA, TN Residents: $90,015 (min) - $117,019 (mid) - $144,024 (max)
• NC Residents: $92,799 (min) - $120,639 (mid) - $148,478 (max)
• DE, MD, PA, TX, VA Residents: $97,439 (min) - $126,671 (mid) - $155,902 (max)
• DC Residents: $109,503 (min) - $142,354(mid) - $175,204 (max)
• CA & NY Residents:  $113,215(min) - $147,179 (mid) - $181,143 (max)

Location:

• In-person, hybrid, and remote options are available. Our office is located in Baltimore.
• This position will sit 100% Remote. This team works Eastern Standard Time zone hours.

Employment Type

• Full-time

What you’ll be doing:

We’re looking to change the world by building software with a soul, and we want your help.

The Product Manager II is the central team hub supporting strategic and tactical product activities. They are responsible for establishing and communicating the product's long-term vision and strategy and how it supports and achieves the client’s goals and initiatives. They are responsible for creating and implementing production strategies that drive adoption, resource efficiency, and value delivery. This role closely aligns with the Product Owner's and the client's strategic plans. They conduct thorough problem identification, product planning, client expectation management, competitive analysis, user story creation, and backlog management. The PdM II consistently displays leadership and contributes to Fearless's herd and product management practice. 

Responsibilities and Contributions Organizational and Leadership Role 

• Guides the team, customer, and end users to build a product vision, roadmap, and strategy
• Aligns client stakeholders
• Translates roadmaps and visions into user stories and epics.

Functional Role 

• Develops, communicates, and executes long-term product vision and strategy
• Creates the product roadmap to help clients formulate, prioritize, and implement short and long-term planning
• Manages the discovery phase to ensure proper problem identification validation
• Effectively manages stakeholder communication and ensures stakeholder requirements, business needs, and user needs are aligned
• Effectively translates technical documentation and identifies any resulting opportunities/dependencies
• Serves as a consultant to client product owners on backlog prioritization, epic/feature/use case/user story creation, identifying user personas, and acceptance criteria
• Partners with clients to develop and monitor strategies for user adoption, cost savings, and  informing product decisions 
• Creates value propositions and partners with stakeholders to establish Minimum Viable Product (MVP) 
• Identifies and communicates risks, business opportunities, and dependencies to the client
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with the client, team members, and partner organizations
• Coaches and serves as a subject matter expert for client product owners
• Effectively communicates business and operational objectives and requirements to technical teams, as well as technical capabilities and limitations to the business stakeholders

Daily Tasks

• Proactively identify areas of improvement
• Write clear problem statements and user stories in preparation for refinement. collaboration with the Product Owner
• Prioritize stories and tasks for sprint planning and refinement based on goal priorities and performance metrics
• Creates and communicates the team's baseline documentation. This includes:
  • Sprint goals
  • New feature documentation
• Works with Product Owner to address risks, blockers, and dependencies for features and the team
• Communicates and plans strategic decisions and/or implementations with the Product Owner
• Maintains a risk register

Essential Skills, Experience, or Competencies  Must-Have Skills

• Ability to obtain security clearance required by the project: Public Trust
• Completed Bachelor's degree OR an additional 3+ years of Product Owner/Product Manager experience
• A minimum of 5 years of demonstrated working experience as a Product Manager 
• Strong experience supporting Technical teams and products with high proficiency in the following:
  • Modern web application frameworks
  • Modern software development practices
  • Identity proofing capabilities and NIST (cybersecurity) requirements
• Strong proficiency using the following tools: GitHub, Jira, Google Drive
• Experience working in a fast-paced Agile environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to internal and external audiences
• Extensive knowledge of product ownership roles and a solid understanding of ownership gaps
• Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, build relationships, and influence others
• Very strong written (documentation) and verbal communication skills

Highly Desired Skills and Experience

• Product management experience in local, state, or federal government contracting and/or consulting
• GitLab experience (for project management)
• Experience consulting in product management
• Experience coaching and/or training internal and external audiences in product management best practices

Over the years, we’ve honed our interview process to help ensure that every team member we hire is the right fit for us and that we’re the right fit for them. If we think you’re a good fit, we’ll get in touch and start scheduling your interviews! Depending on the role's/project's requirements, the interview process may include some differences. At the minimum

• Introductory Interview: This is where you and your recruiter will build rapport, explore your career and educational background, discuss salary expectations, role requirements, and set expectations for the interview process, specific to the position of interest. 
• Technical Interview (Skills Fit): This is where we get into the nitty gritty of the project. During the Technical Interview, you’ll be interviewed by the technical team to dig more into your background and technical capabilities. 
• Business Interview: At this point, you’ve made it to the final frontier! The Business Interview is when you’ll meet with Fearless leadership to dot the i’s, cross the t’s, and determine whether or not we’ll be moving forward with the hiring process.

About Fearless Digital

Fearless Digital builds software with a soul. As a division inside Fearless, we're part of its digital services integrator model to unlock the power of organizations, people and tech. Our division designs, engineers, and delivers digital solutions to solve problems and drive impact. Using iterative development cycles, we minimize risk for our customers and efficiently deliver intuitive and responsive technology. In this way, we help set the stage for tech to work better for people. That's not our only goal, though. We also strive to create a purple culture that makes our team members excited to come to work every day. We take a holistic approach to our people’s well-being, and our culture and benefits are designed to support our people in working the way they like best. We encourage our people to pursue their passions, both in and out of the office. With flexible schedules, continuing education support, and a family-friendly work environment, we’ve created a culture that allows our team to thrive professionally and personally.

Fearless believes in equal opportunity employment. We won’t discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, nationality, age, religion, disability, military status, or sexual orientation. As a company and as individuals, we’re committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for our team, our family members, our clients, our subcontractors, and our vendors.

Fearless Digital Benefits 

Benefits Eligibility:

• Full-time team members are eligible for benefits upon beginning employment at Fearless
• Part-time team members are only eligible for 8.75 days of safe & sick leave
• Interns and 1099 team members are not eligible for Fearless benefits

Our people make us who we are. We believe that every member of the Fearless team has something to share, and we value the unique viewpoint you’ll bring to our community. But we value your community, too, so we offer fulfilling work that stays in balance with the rest of life. Because everyone has different needs, desires, and goals, our benefits offer the choices and flexibility that our team members need to live well and succeed. Here are a few highlights of our benefits package, for full-time team members, exclusively:

• Life-friendly schedules
• Family-friendly workplace
• We cover 100% of your premium for our medical HSA plan + the deductible portion of HSA contributions, 80% of your premium for our HMO or PPO plans, and offer competitive dependent coverage. We cover 100% of dental and vision premiums for you and your dependents and offer medical and dependent care FSA options. We also offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and legal planning and support insurance.
• Tech, education / training, and wellness allowances
• Safe Harbor 401(k) plan with employer contributions (current match = 4%) and immediate vesting
• Referral bonus: Bring your friends! If someone you refer is hired, you’ll get a bonus of $6–12k!
• Total Pet Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Up 12 weeks of FMLA paid at 100%
• PTO is provided to team members as a lump sum allowance, not an accrual. PTO is prorated based on your start date (see table below) on a quarterly basis (with tenure-based increases), 8.75 days of sick leave, 11 federal holidays, their birthday (8 hours), up to 15 days for jury duty, and up to 3 days (24 hours) of bereavement leave per eligible instance.