2025-05-06
Leidos
Other
/yr
full-time
part-time
employee
contract
Baltimore
Maryland
21244
United States
Description
The Digital Modernization Sector has an opening for a Product Mentor to work in Woodlawn, MD.
This position will require onsite work in Woodlawn, MD five days a week.
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:
Applying industry-standard Product Management frameworks to existing Federal agency processes to support the modernization and requirements development process.
Providing Subject Matter Expertise for agency Product investments and presenting to executive audiences.
Describing and discussing data-driven value-seeking Product Management Practices in concert with improvements in software development productivity.
Providing extensive assistance in defining and producing Product Management courseware content tailored to organization-specific requirements.
Possessing a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality.
Providing support through the SDLC process for strategic client projects.
Facilitating Product Discovery and requirements gathering workshops with clients.
Coaching and training other Product Managers on best practice.
Working with team members to produce estimates for proposals and investments.
Providing guidance on creating and maintaining a product backlog with epics and user stories.
Providing guidance on creating product roadmaps and release plans.
Facilitating communication between executive leadership, stakeholders, and development team members.
Providing product demos and presentations to clients.
Supporting organizational change management message delivery/outreach sessions in the roles of author, packager, and presenter.
Producing positive outcomes in technical debates about the application of Product Management processes, redefinition of Product Management terminology, and strategic leadership concepts.
Discussing and practicing agile delivery methods, agile culture, and agile leadership.
Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
Ability to interface with senior leadership.
Day to Day Responsibilities:
Support Product Manager With:
Define, articulate, and build strategy around a vision driving the overall strategy for future products.
Engage broadly across product teams and functions to understand drivers of performance and collaborate on optimizing business processes.
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.
Contribute to building a strong human centered design culture.
Manage one or more product managers to guide and prioritize work give the vision and strategy.
All other duties as assigned or directed.
Education & Required Qualifications:
Minimum of 3 years of combined experience in 1 or more of the following:
Factors to Help You Shine (Required Qualifications):
These skills will help you succeed in this position:
Solid experience describing and discussing data-driven, value-seeking Product Management.
Solid experience implementing product practices at an enterprise level.
Experience conveying software methodologies to audiences including senior leaders with varying technical backgrounds.
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.
Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust security clearance.
How to Stand Out from the Crowd (Desired Skills):
Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:
Prior Federal Government/Government/large scale corporate working experience.
Pragmatic Product Manager Certification.
Experience managing Product Managers and equivalent professionals.
Experience creating training plans and curricula.
Ability to manage, train and communicate with cross-functional teams and implement the Product lifecycle.
Ability to prioritize and react to changing requirements with a sense of urgency.
Ability to envision a big-picture vision at an enterprise level and the drive to make that vision a reality.
Knowledge of big data and analytics products.
Negotiating and customer interfacing skills.
Strong problem-solving capabilities evidenced by a proven ability to analyze product concepts, strategic opportunities, and competitive threats, quantitatively and qualitatively.
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
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.
