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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.
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. Our approach to compensation is intended to ensure our total package serves all of your needs and includes base pay, medical and other benefits, performance rewards, 401k matching, plus a few perks (tech and wellness reimbursement programs)! Our salary ranges are determined based on role, level and location and provide team members salary growth within a salary grade over time. Team members automatically progress within a salary range through annual increases (given to reward service at Fearless) or merit increases (given to reward and individual's demonstrated performance and growth within the position). Fearless team members are also eligible for discretionary bonuses based on company performance.
The salary ranges for this position based on location are listed below. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified as a part of our annual salary range review.
Salary Range
- AL, FL, GA, TN Residents: $112,915 (min) - $146,789 (mid) - $180,664 (max)
- NC Residents: $116,407 (min) - $151,329 (mid) - $186,251 (max)
- DE, MD, PA, TX, VA Residents: $122,227 (min) - $158,896 (mid) - $195,564 (max)
- DC Residents: $137,360 (min) - $178,568 (mid) - $219,776 (max)
- CA, NY, NJ Residents: $142,016 (min) - $184,621 (mid) - $227,226 (max)
Location:
- In-person, hybrid, and remote options are available. Our office is located in Baltimore.
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.
At Fearless, the role of Product Strategist involves a blend of strategic planning, product development, and understanding the specific needs of our clients, their unique challenges and their users. The Product Strategist will be a dynamic and strategic-minded leader who is responsible for guiding the long term strategic direction of client products, services and solutions. You will work with client partners to develop and implement product management strategies, prioritization processes, delivery frameworks, launch strategies and OKR’s. The Product Strategist will also coach client organizations on product management best practices, helping them establish long-term visions and strategies that align to the organizations mission. The ideal candidate is a strong relationship builder, will be value and outcome driven, and possess the ability to identify, understand, scope and solve user and business problems.
The Product Strategist is focused on meaningful outcomes and builds strategic plans for products that change user behaviors. You will continuously adjust your product’s strategic approach based on ever-changing priorities, and user feedback. The product strategist will have an intimate understanding of the client of the end users and their needs and development strategies to continuously drive user adoption. The product strategist will also thrive at identifying risks and creating risk mitigating plans.
Responsibilities and Contributions
- Works directly with client organizational leaders and key stakeholders to build out a long term product vision, strategy and implementation plan..
- Works with clients at the stakeholder level to ensure product strategy aligns with organizational mission.
- Stakeholder engagement, build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders in government agencies, understanding their challenges, needs and priorities.
- Develops a product prioritization schema, unique to the client context, that will enable the client to manage the stakeholder demands and product requirements, but also allow effective product development.
- Establishes and implements product management best practices and operations.
- Develops and communicates long term product strategy and vision for team members to carry out.
- Develops and implements an overall strategic approach to new product development or product enhancement.
- Serves as a consultant to client product owners on backlog prioritization, epic/feature/use case/user story creation, user personas identification, acceptance criteria and value propositions.
- Develops and implements product education plans, marketing plans, and launch plans, and coordinates cross functional teams and stakeholders.
- Partners with stakeholders to establish Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and iteration plans.
Essential Skills, Experience, or Competencies Must-Have Skills
- Strategic product management experience as an advisor, coach or consultant.
- Experience identifying, understanding and solving business and end user problems.
- Experience developing and communicating effective strategic, implementation, launch and iteration plans.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to create alignment across various internal and external audiences. .
- Extensive knowledge of product ownership and product management roles in an agile environment.
- Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, build relationships, and influence others.
- Proven ability to establish, track and analyze performance metrics, adoption rates and user satisfaction.
- Experience working with key stakeholders or decision makers at the enterprise level.
Icing-on-the-Cake Skills
- Experience working for federal, state or local government in some product management or strategic capacity.
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.
What We Do
We're a full-stack digital services firm in Baltimore, Maryland with a mission to create software with a soul - tools that empower communities and make a difference. Fearless delivers sleek, modern, and user-friendly software designed to push the boundaries of possibility, to create a world where good software powers the things that matter.
Our clients are changemakers who want to use technology to make the world a better place. They know that digital transformation will improve services for all and we're here to help support their passion for better.
Fearless has partnered with the Government to successfully launch multiple projects which include:
-SBA.gov: We run the digital face and all infrastructure that powers SBA.gov.
-SBA HUBZone Modernization: We are the firm that did the modernization of SBA's HUBZone technology.
-Login.gov: Fearless currently is the prime contractor supporting the development of Login.gov the central identity provider into government services.
-Search.gov: A platform that supports nearly 2,000 search boxes on Federal websites, free of charge. It provides both critical searching capabilities to these sites and key information on trends, queries, and results for administrative users.
-Challenge.gov: Furthers the mission of “delivering value and savings in real estate, acquisition, technology, and other mission-support services across government.”
-US Air Force (BESPIN): A center of excellence in digital, mobile, data, and technology. BESPIN collaborates with divisions throughout BES to help them with their own transformations, working with them to build teams, platforms, standards, and digital services.
