Lead Product Manager (Part-Time)

@ ICF Next, we are fearless in finding new ways to solve problems, relentless in making sure it pays off for our clients and committed to making a positive change in the world. Join our community of mission-driven creatives, communicators, strategists, and technologists to challenge the status quo.

We are currently hiring for an experienced Lead Product Manager to serve as a senior engagement leader in support of our federal government clients.

As an part-time/on-call employee, you might work zero to 30 hours per week, depending on our workload.

Our Team

Join a team of senior consultants and problem-solvers working to champion product thinking in federal IT delivery.

Product Managers @ ICF Next are difference-makers. They understand and connect with the client mission and act as the curators and stewards of the product vision throughout Agile IT Modernizations.

This is a dynamic and visible senior consultant position, capable of wearing different hats and communication styles in different settings to depending on the day and context: teammate or leader, collaborator or visionary, listener or coach, business development or delivery.

ICF is a purpose-driven company with a strong culture and underlying values that prize diversity, opportunity, equality, and respect. Our core values include embracing differences, and we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of differences.

Our Work

A Lead Product Manager in our practice:

• Serves as a leader on federal client engagements, shapes the Agile team and processes for success and drives the backlog of work in the right direction
• Is a consultant first; able to effectively represent our practice’s product management playbook and the services we sell in the way they do their work, while also tailoring their approach on a project-by-project basis to deliver value to their teams and customers
• Uncovers and articulates the needs and goals of the client organization as they relate to the contract and product; Loves to dig in and make sense of things, can quickly get smart on a new program or subject matter
• Collaborates with a variety of internal and external experts, facilitates conversations and workshops to brainstorm and get buy-in for decisions
• Generates clear and compelling artifacts to explain the product vision, strategy, process, target outcomes, progress toward those outcomes, and high-level requirements to a variety of audiences
• Brings a minimum viable product (MVP) mindset to everything they do, keeps the team focused on …