About Fearless Digital
Fearless Digital builds software with a soul. As a division inside Fearless, we're part of its digital services integrator model to unlock the power of organizations, people and tech. Our division designs, engineers, and delivers digital solutions to solve problems and drive impact. Using iterative development cycles, we minimize risk for our customers and efficiently deliver intuitive and responsive technology. In this way, we help set the stage for tech to work better for people. That's not our only goal, though. We also strive to create a purple culture that makes our team members excited to come to work every day. We take a holistic approach to our people’s well-being, and our culture and benefits are designed to support our people in working the way they like best. We encourage our people to pursue their passions, both in and out of the office. With flexible schedules, continuing education support, and a family-friendly work environment, we’ve created a culture that allows our team to thrive professionally and personally.
Fearless believes in equal opportunity employment. We won’t discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, nationality, age, religion, disability, military status, or sexual orientation. As a company and as individuals, we’re committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for our team, our family members, our clients, our subcontractors, and our vendors.
Fearless Digital Benefits
Benefits Eligibility:
- Full-time team members are eligible for benefits upon beginning employment at Fearless
- Part-time team members are only eligible for 8.75 days of safe & sick leave
- Interns and 1099 team members are not eligible for Fearless benefits
Our people make us who we are. We believe that every member of the Fearless team has something to share, and we value the unique viewpoint you’ll bring to our community. But we value your community, too, so we offer fulfilling work that stays in balance with the rest of life. Because everyone has different needs, desires, and goals, our benefits offer the choices and flexibility that our team members need to live well and succeed. Here are a few highlights of our benefits package, for full-time team members, exclusively:
- Life-friendly schedules
- Family-friendly workplace
- We cover 100% of your premium for our medical HSA plan + the deductible portion of HSA contributions, 80% of your premium for our HMO or PPO plans, and offer competitive dependent coverage. We cover 100% of dental and vision premiums for you and your dependents and offer medical and dependent care FSA options. We also offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and legal planning and support insurance.
- Tech, education / training, and wellness allowances
- Safe Harbor 401(k) plan with employer contributions (current match = 4%) and immediate vesting
- Referral bonus: Bring your friends! If someone you refer is hired, you’ll get a bonus of $6–12k!
- Total Pet Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Up 12 weeks of FMLA paid at 100%
- PTO is provided to team members as a lump sum allowance, not an accrual. PTO is prorated based on your start date (see table below) on a quarterly basis (with tenure-based increases), 8.75 days of sick leave, 11 federal holidays, their birthday (8 hours), up to 15 days for jury duty, and up to 3 days (24 hours) of bereavement leave per eligible instance.
| Start Date |
PTO Allocation |
Allocation Timing |
| Jan 1 - March 31 |
100% |
January |
| April 1 - June 30 |
75% |
April |
| July 1 - Sept 30 |
50% |
July |
| Oct 1 - Dec 31 |
25% |
October |
Compensation
Our Compensation System is designed to reward remarkable work, grow your impact and support the whole “you” over the course of your career.
We believe in paying people fairly, so we've established a compensation model aimed to ensure everyone at Fearless — regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, nationality, or negotiation skills — is given equal pay for equal work. Our approach to compensation is intended to ensure our total package serves all of your needs and includes base pay, medical and other benefits, performance rewards, 401k matching, plus a few perks (tech and wellness reimbursement programs)! Our salary ranges are determined based on role, level and location and provide team members salary growth within a salary grade over time. Team members automatically progress within a salary range through annual increases (given to reward service at Fearless) or merit increases (given to reward and individual's demonstrated performance and growth within the position). Fearless team members are also eligible for discretionary bonuses based on company performance.
The salary ranges for this position based on location are listed below. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified as a part of our annual salary range review.
Salary
- AL, FL, GA, TN Residents: $90,015 (min) - $117,019 (mid) - $144,024 (max)
- NC Residents: $92,799 (min) - $120,639 (mid) - $148,478 (max)
- DE, MD, PA, TX, VA Residents: $97,439 (min) - $126,671 (mid) - $155,902 (max)
- DC Residents: $109,503 (min) - $142,354(mid) - $175,204 (max)
- CA & NY Residents: $113,215(min) - $147,179 (mid) - $181,143 (max)
Location:
- In-person, hybrid, and remote options are available. Our office is located in Baltimore.
- This position is 100% Remote with potential quarterly travel to Baltimore, MD for client meetings.
Employment Type
Full-time
What you’ll be doing:
We’re looking to change the world by building software with a soul, and we want your help.
The Product Manager II is the central team hub supporting strategic and tactical product activities. They are responsible for establishing and communicating the product's long-term vision and strategy and how it supports and achieves the client’s goals and initiatives. They are responsible for creating and implementing production strategies that drive adoption, resource efficiency, and value delivery. This role closely aligns with the Product Owner's and the client's strategic plans. They conduct thorough problem identification, product planning, client expectation management, competitive analysis, user story creation, and backlog management. The PdM II consistently displays leadership and contributes to Fearless's herd and product management practice.
Responsibilities and Contributions
Organizational and Leadership Role
- Guides the team, customer, and end users to build a product vision, roadmap, and strategy
- Aligns client stakeholders
- Translates roadmaps and visions into user stories and epics.
Functional Role
- Develops, communicates, and executes long-term product vision and strategy
- Creates the product roadmap to help clients formulate, prioritize, and implement short and long-term planning
- Manages the discovery phase to ensure proper problem identification validation
- Effectively manages stakeholder communication and ensures stakeholder requirements, business needs, and user needs are aligned
- Serves as a consultant to client product owners on backlog prioritization, epic/feature/use case/user story creation, identifying user personas, and acceptance criteria.
- Partners with clients to develop and monitor strategies for user adoption, cost savings, and informing product decisions
- Creates value propositions and partners with stakeholders to establish Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Identifies and communicates risks, business opportunities, and dependencies to the client
- Builds and maintains strong working relationships with the client, team members, and partner organizations
- Coaches and serves as a subject matter expert for client product owners.
Essential Skills, Experience, or Competencies
Must-Have Skills
- A minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience as a Product Manager.
- Strong experience working in a fast-paced Agile environment utilizing JIRA and Confluence.
- Strong experience ensuring the direction of the product meets end user and stakeholder needs and expectations.
- Strong experience collaborating with Product Owners (POs) and stakeholders to create a vision, mission statement, strategy, and roadmap for a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to internal and external audiences.
- Extensive knowledge of product ownership roles and a solid understanding of ownership gaps.
- Ability to operate and manage work, strategically reason, build relationships, and influence others.
Highly Desired Skills and Experience
- GitLab familiarity.
- Experience consulting in product management.
- Product management experience in local, state, or federal government contracting and/or consulting.
- Experience coaching and/or training internal and external audiences in product management best practices.
- Healthcare and/or Insurance industry familiarity.
So, what’s next?
Over the years, we’ve honed our interview process to help ensure that every team member we hire is the right fit for us and that we’re the right fit for them. If we think you’re a good fit, we’ll get in touch and start scheduling your interviews! Depending on the role's/project's requirements, the interview process may include some differences. At the minimum
- Introductory Interview: This is where you and your recruiter will build rapport, explore your career and educational background, discuss salary expectations, role requirements, and set expectations for the interview process, specific to the position of interest.
- Technical Interview (Skills Fit): This is where we get into the nitty gritty of the project. During the Technical Interview, you’ll be interviewed by the technical team to dig more into your background and technical capabilities.
- Business Interview: At this point, you’ve made it to the final frontier! The Business Interview is when you’ll meet with Fearless leadership to dot the i’s, cross the t’s, and determine whether or not we’ll be moving forward with the hiring process.
