The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) provides operations support services and business solutions to the community of 10,000 House Members, Officers and staff. The CAO organization comprises more than 650 technical and administrative staff working in a variety of areas, including information technology, finance, budget management, human resources, payroll, child care, food and vending, procurement, logistics and administrative counsel.
The mission of the House Digital Service (HDS)
is to collaborate with members, committees, and their staff to ensure they have
the necessary technology to carry out their daily responsibilities. As a
founding member of the HDS team, you will be a part of a first-of-its-kind team
in the legislative branch tasked with expanding institutional capacity and
technology adoption. You will have a significant impact on the operational and
technical foundations of the team, and will continually seek out ways to enable
House Member Offices and Committees to better perform their Constitutional
duties.
As a Product Manager, you will a part of
cross-functional teams to deliver user-centered products using agile
methodologies and modern software development practices while building capacity
for product innovation in the House. You’ll help HDS establish modern user
research and product practices and share these insights with other House
organizations, contributing to a growing culture of product management.
Who we’re looking for:
You are an experienced Product
Manager who can unite vision and execution to lead an interdisciplinary team in
delivering the right value to the right people. You’re skilled at defining a
meaningful end goal to galvanize your team, whether that means generating a
product vision and strategy with your team or helping other departments and
teams articulate and focus their vision and strategy. As a founding member of
the team, you’ll also take the lead in helping define what Product Management
means at the House, help us find and hire future Product Managers, and educate institutional
colleagues, House Members, and staff on Product Management philosophy.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities:
- Establish vision, strategy, and roadmaps for House Digital Service products to ensure all stakeholders have a shared understanding of product objectives, goals, and metrics.
- Analyze market demand and market fit, do competitive analysis, and guide build vs. buy or reuse approaches.
- Identify and proactively monitor and address product risks.
- Quickly develop a detailed understanding of complex and often contradictory stakeholder needs and requirements, and synthesize them into coherent product concepts and roadmaps.
- Lead a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, and engineers to ensure the right product is delivered to the right audience.
- Work with the team to set and meet quality standards for any product you build.
- Use evidence (user research, analytics, and other metrics) to make product decisions.
- Ask “why?” a lot.
- Be comfortable working in a consulting capacity for other teams as well as managing products directly.
- Be ready to take on ad-hoc projects that emerge as priorities for the institution.
- Be flexible and adaptive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
Please submit a cover letter with your application.
How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
You will be evaluated using a structured interview process.
Resume
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
