Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for a cloud-based research computing platform supporting economic research.
- Collaborate closely with researchers across economic divisions to gather requirements and translate user needs into clear product specifications, priorities, and solutions.
- Develop a deep understanding of user needs, pain points, workflows, and use cases to drive product prioritization and solution development.
- Partner with architecture, cloud engineering, enterprise data platform, security, and platform delivery teams to design and develop a scalable platform that meets researcher needs while maintaining appropriate data governance and security.
- Lead product discovery activities, including user research, journey mapping, workflow analysis, and requirements gathering, to ensure solutions are intuitive and aligned with real-world processes.
- Demonstrate strong ownership and operate with a high degree of autonomy while maintaining cross-functional alignment and accountability for timely delivery of outcomes and deliverables.
- Balance near-term product delivery with long-term platform strategy to ensure scalable and sustainable solutions.
- Establish product success metrics and continuously evaluate, iterate, and improve the platform based on usage data, performance, and user feedback.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and establish clear, consistent processes for communicating relevant information, product updates, priorities, and project status.
- Clearly communicate product vision, roadmap, progress, priorities, risks, and tradeoffs to technical, non-technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, security, data, researchers, and business stakeholders to drive successful product outcomes from conception through launch.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years of technical product management experience, including at least 4 years working directly with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP in a product or engineering capacity.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and services, including compute, storage, networking, security, containers, orchestration, and related cloud technologies.
- Hands-on experience with system design for cloud-based applications and platforms.
- Strong knowledge of platform engineering principles, including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, monitoring, and automated delivery practices.
- Strong understanding of modern AI-based development workflows and technologies.
- Demonstrated success delivering enterprise or research and development-focused products from initial concept through launch.
- Experience working closely with security and compliance teams and navigating data governance, access controls, risk reviews, and related security processes.
- Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, security, data, business, and end-user stakeholder groups.
- Demonstrated experience developing product strategy, roadmaps, priorities, and long-term vision for enterprise platforms.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage technical, business, and executive-level stakeholders.
- Ability to work on-site in Washington, DC; the on-site requirement is not flexible.
- Candidates must be US Citizens.
Nice to Have
- Experience supporting academic or research-based workflows is highly preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Multi-year projects
- Exciting clients
- Work-life balance
- Quality time for family and 'life'
- Treated with integrity, professionalism, and trust
- Help meeting career goals
- Continuous support in the field
- Referral program
Work Arrangement
On-site — Washington, DC
Additional Information
- On-site in Washington, DC; the on-site requirement is not flexible.
- Candidates must be US Citizens.
- The Squires Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
