Technical Product Manager - NASA (REMOTE)

INNOVIM is seeking a Technical Product Manager to work in a fast-paced Agile environment that ensures the accurate and timely design, development, and deployment of products and services that allows the large collection of NASA earth science data to be more discoverable by the end user community. Search and Discovery is the value stream in which the products and services are built and supported in NASA’s Earth Observing System Data Information System (EOSDIS), which provides end-to-end capabilities for managing NASA’s Earth science data from various sources – satellites, aircraft, field measurements, and other programs.

***This position is remote and requires a U.S. Person***

The following duties are expected to be carried out by the Product Manager:

• Defining and supporting the building of desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable cloud-based products that meet customer needs over time.
• Collaborating with a wide range of people to identify and define customer needs for cloud platform usage.
• Supporting the Agile Release Train (ART) in delivering value through the Program Kanban and Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
• Defining Releases and Program Increments (PI) priorities, as well as participating in PI planning.
• Managing and prioritizing the ART feature backlog, as well as ensuring product completeness.
• Developing and communicating the product vision and roadmap, for use towards coordinating the work of multiple Product Managers, ARTs, and Suppliers.

Required Experience, Knowledge, and/or Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 10 years of experience building software applications for enterprise scale systems.
• Experience working with geospatial data and tools, especially those related to this program (Common Metadata Repository and Earthdata Search).
• At least 4 years of people management, including relationship building with key stakeholders, communicating technical findings with non-technical stakeholders, and working with subcontractor team members, in agile development environments.
• Ability to ensure that developed products are moving in the right direction, in step with the product vision, goals, and objectives.
• Ability to align development efforts to meet end-user needs and customer’s goals.
• Experience using metrics and data to drive a development team to a desired goal.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience creating RACI charts.

Desired Experience:

•   Experience using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), particularly as a Product Owner or Product Manager.
•   Knowledge of metadata cataloging and search engine indexing.
•   Experience with conflict management between two or more parties.

Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

INNOVIM is committed to providing superior work in the fields of science, engineering, data analytics and technology to government agencies. We offer competitive compensation packages, including comprehensive nationwide Medical/Dental/Vision insurance programs, life insurance, matching 401k contribution and Educational/Training support.