Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nava is hiring a Senior Product Manager to guide digital products and services for government partners. The role sets product direction, works with cross-functional teams to deliver user-centered solutions, and measures progress against user and business goals.
Responsibilities
- Define the vision, goals, and measures of success for the products and services you manage
- Work with designers, business analysts, and technical leads to discover and synthesize market research, user needs, business requirements, and technical approaches
- Define the direction, scope, and priority of projects, from high-level initiatives to specific features, user stories, and business metrics
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop and ship projects
- Proactively socialize, iterate on, and build buy-in for product initiatives with the team, government partners, and other contractors
- Collaborate with the project management team to prioritize roadmaps and inbound units of work
- Represent Nava’s outcome-centric and user-centric approach in discovery meetings with agencies and contractors
- Understand and communicate the needs of end users and population segments we serve and government partners we work with
- Measure product progress toward business goals or user needs and translate data insights into action
- Make tactical decisions to improve the design, define requirements, and generate stakeholder buy-in for our desired path forward
Skills
- At least 10 years of experience as a Product Manager of a cross-functional team
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Experience running and/or shipping consumer web applications
- Ability to generate very strong product plans and build buy-in across the team, our government partners, and other contractors
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical, user experience, and project management trade-offs; enthusiastic communicator
- Strong bias towards action; ability to step up into team gaps and ambiguous situations to structure the team's action plan
- Ability to execute with incomplete information; great product instincts and an ability to create order from divergent needs
- Ability to define a product objective and logically reverse engineer the path and communications to achieve the objective
- Ability to identify market trends and shifts that will affect product direction and update plans based on future expectations
- An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset
- Legal authorization to work in the United States
- Ability to meet any other requirements for government contracts for which candidates are hired
- Work authorization that doesn't require visa sponsorship, now or in the future
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Disability, life, and accidental death insurance at no cost
- Vacation, holidays (including Juneteenth), and floating holidays
- 12 paid federal holidays each year on top of regular PTO
- When Nava meets its goals, eligible employees receive a performance-based annual bonus
- Paid time off for new parents, plus weekly meals delivered to your home
- Wellness platform offering physical, mental, and emotional health resources and support tools
- Online doctor visits with no copay through a virtual visit program, depending on available providers
- Earn extended unpaid leave after continuous service for personal growth or rest
- Nava matches 4% of your salary to support your retirement savings plan
- Remote-first environment with flexibility built around your schedule and responsibilities
- Company laptop and setup assistance provided via Staples for remote work needs
- Monthly reimbursement to help offset eligible home office utility expenses
- Internal training programs and resources to help grow your professional skills
- LinkedIn Learning access and an annual allowance for courses, tuition, and certifications
- Referral bonus when you refer people who join the Nava team
- Pre-tax commuter programs to support in-office travel when applicable
- Collaborative and remote-friendly team environment
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