Staff Product Manager

About Rise8

We’re transforming the United States Government and we know that takes a dream team. 

We believe customer experience starts with employee experience, so we take care of our employees. We offer competitive pay and benefits, invest in employee growth, and offer a culture you can’t find anywhere else.

At Rise8, we continuously achieve unreached heights through next-level tech, and on-the-level collaboration. Together, we create continuous impact. We turn breakdowns into breakthroughs, make small steps into giant leaps, and deliver game-changing products through culture-changing process.

We pair Risers with their customer counterparts and practice pairing at every moment to elevate people and teams and deliver results fast and forever. We work in small teams and rotate between them frequently so that we are able to meet new challenges and explore new ideas.

Our methodology is about experimenting and learning, and our culture is empowering. We subscribe to an ethos of kindness. We make a point to bring empathy to each and every project and are guided by a promise and a purpose: to deploy critical outcomes to prod in order to drive relentless progress. Not just an idea. But an outcome. A better world. A world where every day, fewer bad things happen because of bad software.

Rise8 is certified as a Great Place to Work with 100% of employees saying they love working here.

About You

• You want to make tomorrow better than today. 
• You have a passion for high-speed security and you care about risk management over compliance.
• You believe the biggest vulnerability in any system is time. You live to securely reduce cycle time.
• You enjoy daily decision making and real product delivery.
• You help ensure project success and client satisfaction. 
• You enjoy collaborative teams, pairing with team members, and inviting your clients to participate. 
• You like to work alongside, and learn from, lean and agile leaders. 
• You are a creative problem solver who is comfortable with uncertainty.
• You’re a curious and keen learner who thrives on enhancing your (and our) practices and knowledge.

Product Management at Rise8

At Rise8 we are in the business of inspiring culture by enabling clients to ruthlessly prioritize end-user value to build, test, & deliver regularly, consistently, and quickly as possible. 

You will work with clients who have never before taken part in a design thinking, backlog management, outcome-oriented roadmaps, strategic planning, or even interacted with the user they provide software to. 

You will teach the why behind each of these practices, be flexible to client preferences, and even discover new tools that will enable your customer to understand the value that comes with agile software development. 

You will be responsible for learning how your client likes to learn, how they like to receive feedback, and what ubiquitous language they use so you can speak in terms that resonate with them. 

You will learn, teach, and change your approach constantly to best collaborate towards a new way of thinking. 

You will pair with the team’s Product Manager to teach them how to write and prioritize user stories that provide business value, technical feasibility, and user-driven functionality. You will help you break down big ideas into manageable pieces, establish a reliable way to estimate effort, and ensure a predictable output of frequent releases. 

You will ensure the backlog is populated with enough user stories to be estimated for the next two iterations. 

You will run the iteration planning meeting, which ensures that the team understands where they have been & where they are going next. 

You will work with a balanced team in mind,  providing a clear understanding of the users’ needs, the business objectives, and the stakeholders’ vision so the team can quickly make informed decisions based on validated assumptions.

Qualifications 

• 10+ years of product management experience in a variety of business settings
• Experience in training, mentoring and/or upskilling other product managers
• Experience leading a portfolio or multiple balanced product teams
• Strong communication skills and interest in a paired-consulting environment
• Experience in agile and devops methodologies
• Strong facilitation skills
• Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work and challenging problems
• Ability to travel up to 25%

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience enabling clients in product management best practices
• Experienced in lean product methodologies and can educate others
• Interest in giving talks on product management to clients and internally.
• Active member of the product management community

Salary 

The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $156,696.12 to $235,044.18 regardless of final candidate location within the United States. The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity. 

Benefits 

• Flexible schedule in a 100% distributed workforce 
• Premium Insurance: We cover up to 100% of the employee premium and up to 80% of the combined dependent premium on our base health plan, depending on pay band. We also cover 100% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision as well as employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage.
• Retirement: 401k match at 10% gross pay.
• Paid time off (PTO): 4 weeks combined accrued vacation and sick leave, 10 Federal holidays, your birthday, jury duty, and bereavement.
• Education & Training: Accrued budget of up to $3,500 per year for classes, travel, events, and materials.
• Home Office and Merch: We offer $750 per year for home office technology and equipment as well as $100 per year for Rise8 merch from our Swag Store.
• Wellness Budget: To encourage and support a well-rounded healthy lifestyle, we cover 100% reimbursement on a variety of wellness activities and products, up to $500 per calendar year. 
• Rise8 is part of the Life Time Corporate Partner program. In lieu of your $500 annual wellness benefit, you can instead get a $75 monthly credit towards a Life Time membership ($900 annual benefit).
• Equipment: We offer a MacBook Pro

All of Rise8’s work in this area is with Federal Government customers that require our employees involved with their projects be U.S. citizens. As such, this role requires U.S. citizenship. If hired, you would also be required to go through a background investigation.

Rise8 is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider you for this role regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.