Product Mentor Jobs

Description

As a Product Mentor, you play a critical role in influencing the future of products in a large Government organization. In this role, you will be passionate about supporting product managers and product teams creating an exceptional products and user experiences! You will support defining product strategy, as well as influence multiple projects and initiatives across the organization. You will have the opportunity to guide and understand the needs of different stakeholders involved with a product. Supporting product manager in breaking down complexity, driving innovation and designing new features, understanding and working with complex data and drawing the right conclusions. Support product discovery and design for a range of user personas, that may include internal users (Government) as well as external users (General Public).

Responsibilities Will Include

• Facilitating Product Discovery and requirements gathering workshops with clients.
• Providing product demos and presentations to clients.
• Discussing and practicing agile delivery methods, agile culture, and agile leadership.
• Describing and discussing data-driven value-seeking Product Management Practices in concert with improvements in software development productivity.
• Providing Subject Matter Expertise for agency Product investments and presenting to executive audiences.
• Providing guidance on creating and maintaining a product backlog with epics and user stories.
• Ability to interface with senior leadership.
• Possessing a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality.
• Providing extensive assistance in defining and producing Product Management courseware content tailored to organization-specific requirements.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
• Coaching and training other Product Managers on best practice.
• Applying industry-standard Product Management frameworks to existing Federal agency processes to support the modernization and requirements development process.
• Producing positive outcomes in technical debates about the application of Product Management processes, redefinition of Product Management terminology, and strategic leadership concepts.
• Facilitating communication between executive leadership, stakeholders, and development team members.
• Working with team members to produce estimates for proposals and investments.
• Supporting organizational change management message delivery/outreach sessions in the roles of author, packager, and presenter.
• Providing guidance on creating product roadmaps and release plans.
• Providing support through the SDLC process for strategic client projects.

Team Culture

Your passion and values might be a good fit for our teams if you answer “yes” to the following questions:

• Do you have the flexibility, creativity, and resilience to pivot the mission for success?
• Do you enjoy collaborating with colleagues and teammates and believe that the best ideas are fostered in an inclusive environment?
• Are you looking for a company that puts employees first, with a focus on career, flexibility, and well-being?
• Do you enjoy being a catalyst, solving complex problems, and providing innovative solutions?
• Are you comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership?
• Do you have the courage to make tough ethical decisions with pride, transparency, and respect?
• Are you searching for a team with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive for daily mission success?

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our teams are dedicated to supporting new team members in an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Experienced engineers will be assigned to new hires for one-on-one mentoring, collaborative code reviews, and coaching on customer engagement to help each new hire successfully onboard and demonstrate their skills. Projects and tasks are assigned in a way that leverages your strengths and will help you further develop your skillset.

Foundation For Success (Basic Qualifications)

This experience is the foundation a candidate needs to be successful in this position:

• Experience conveying software methodologies to audiences including senior leaders with varying technical backgrounds.
• Solid experience describing and discussing data-driven, value-seeking Product Management.
• Demonstrable experience in presenting product concepts to senior leaders through presentations.
• Experience defining and producing Product Management courseware and marketing content tailored to organization-specific requirements
• Solid experience implementing product practices at an enterprise level.

Factors To Help You Shine (Required Skills)

These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• Solid experience describing and discussing data-driven, value-seeking Product Management.
• Demonstrable experience in presenting product concepts to senior leaders through presentations.
• Experience defining and producing Product Management courseware and marketing content tailored to organization-specific requirements.
• Experience conveying software methodologies to audiences including senior leaders with varying technical backgrounds.
• Solid experience implementing product practices at an enterprise level.

How To Stand Out From The Crowd (Desired Skills)

Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:

• Experience managing Product Managers and equivalent professionals.
• Pragmatic Product Manager Certification.
• Negotiating and customer interfacing skills.
• Ability to envision a big-picture vision at an enterprise level and the drive to make that vision a reality.
• Ability to prioritize and react to changing requirements with a sense of urgency.
• Ability to manage, train and communicate with cross-functional teams and implement the Product lifecycle.
• Knowledge of big data and analytics products.
• Prior Federal Government/Government/large scale corporate working experience.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities evidenced by a proven ability to analyze product concepts, strategic opportunities, and competitive threats, quantitatively and qualitatively
• Experience creating training plans and curricula.

Day To Day Responsibilities

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams and contribute to our communities. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. If this sounds like a mission you want to be a part of, keep reading!

Every position we take is more rewarding when you know the why behind it. Know your work makes a difference to support those who need it most. If your passion is enabling life changing service to those around, you this is the place for you. Find you passion in a team environment where all members are valued regardless of contractor or employee status. We are excited for you to take your place in our Leidos Family.

Find your “Why” with us!

Support Product Manager With

• Partners with leaders/analyst/users to deeply understand user needs and drive alignment around solutions to core business problems by creating models, concepts diagrams, workflow diagrams, and journey maps.
• Lead discovery sessions, design reviews, and work closely with many different stakeholders.
• Engage broadly across product teams and functions to understand drivers of performance and collaborate on optimizing business processes.
• Contribute to building a strong human centered design culture.
• Define, articulate, and build strategy around a vision driving the overall strategy for future products.
• All other duties as assigned or directed
• Manage one or more product managers to guide and prioritize work give the vision and strategy.

Education & Qualifications

• Experience defining and producing Product Management courseware and marketing content tailored to organization-specific requirements
• Minimum of 3 years of combined experience in 1 or more of the following:
• Experience implementing product practices at an enterprise level
• Bachelor's degree and 7 Years of work experience OR Master's degree and 5 Years of work experience OR a minimum 11 years of work experience as a Product Manager in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience describing and discussing data-driven, value-seeking Product Management.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust
• Experience conveying software methodologies to audiences including senior leaders with varying technical

Leidos’ Health Group is recognized as a Top 10 Health IT provider. We draw on decades of success to deliver a range of solutions and services designed to meet the healthcare challenges of today. From the research bench to the patient bedside, we are a company of scientists, engineers, and technologists delivering a broad range of impactful, customizable, and scalable solutions to hospitals and health systems, biomedical organizations, and every U.S. federal agency focused on health. Leidos works with customers across the continuum of care to improve clinical, operational, and financial outcomes with innovative solutions that advance the next generation of care. Our mission is to contribute to creating a healthier world. Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career, share your resume with us today! ITSSCII

Pay Range

Pay Range $105,300.00 - $162,000.00 - $218,700.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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