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# Staff Product Manager, Technical (HHS) at Skylight

- **Company:** Skylight
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/skylighthq/jobs/4748154005

## Job description

## About Skylight

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.

We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today’s digital world.

If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.

The work we do matters.

## About the job

At Skylight, product managers are responsible for strategy, planning, execution, stakeholder management, and team health. Product managers partner with researchers, designers, engineers, client stakeholders, and others to inform product decisions. At a high level, it’s the product manager’s job to figure out what to build next, why it matters, and how to turn that direction into something a multidisciplinary team can deliver.

A technical product manager specializes in work with significant technical depth — enterprise platforms, cloud environments, APIs, data systems, integrations, and application modernization — where product decisions depend on understanding the underlying architecture, operational constraints, and engineering tradeoffs.

Skylight supports HHS’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) across a growing portfolio of high-visibility digital modernization work. New initiatives can arrive quickly and without fully defined requirements, users, technical approaches, or implementation plans. We need a Staff Product Manager who can bring structure to that ambiguity and help HHS move from a problem or mandate to an actionable strategy, roadmap, and delivered outcome.

The work spans two related areas:

- Enterprise platform optimization. Helping HHS make better use of enterprise platforms by identifying shared needs across Divisions, shaping platform and integration strategies, establishing scalable patterns, and supporting adoption of shared services.
- Modern digital services and applications. Leading multidisciplinary teams that design, build, launch, and continuously improve production-ready digital services and applications — from early discovery and prototypes through enterprise-scale implementation and ongoing operations.

You’ll own one or more workstreams and flex between strategic product leadership and hands-on delivery. Depending on the initiative, you may help define an emerging enterprise platform strategy, conduct discovery with HHS Divisions, turn an operational problem into a product roadmap, guide a prototype toward production, or lead the continued development of an existing digital service.

What to know going in

This is not a role where every project arrives with a defined product, backlog, technical architecture, or implementation plan.

Some workstreams will begin with questions like: What problem are we actually trying to solve? Which HHS Divisions need this capability? Should this be a shared enterprise service or a Division-specific solution? What already exists? What should we standardize? What should we build? And what should happen first?

Others will involve existing applications that already have users and stakeholders and need to move quickly through feature development, integration, launch, adoption, and ongoing improvement.

You’ll need to be comfortable operating at both levels.

At the enterprise level, you may work with architects, engineers, platform owners, and HHS stakeholders to understand how platforms; identify opportunities for shared services and tenant integration; define priorities and adoption strategies; and translate technical possibilities and constraints into decisions leaders can act on.

At the product level, you’ll work closely with designers, researchers, and engineers to turn user and operational needs into working software. Current and emerging application work may include enterprise mentoring, security tooling and analytics, employee onboarding, and other internal digital services.

Across both areas, speed matters. You should be comfortable learning enough to act, showing early work, testing assumptions, and refining the approach as the team learns rather than waiting for perfect information before moving forward.

## What you’ll do

- Help federal stakeholders align and make decisions
- Build and own the roadmap for digital services, from first prototype to a products HHS & Divisions rely on
- Work through technical decisions with engineers
- Translate needs from leadership and government partners into a product vision, objectives, and measures of success
- Ship early prototypes, gather feedback, and iterate quickly rather than waiting for complete requirements
- Write user stories, prioritize the backlog, and build release plans

## What we’re looking for

## Basic qualifications

- Understand lean product principles and how to apply them (e.g., minimum viable product) at various stages of the product life cycle in order to mitigate risk, validate assumptions, and amplify learning
- Can develop a product strategy that is informed by an understanding of the problem to be solved, prioritizes outcomes over feature sets, and establishes the direction of the product over time (e.g., product roadmap), including success criteria
- Ability to execute the product strategy by breaking down the product’s scope into usable chunks of value that can be realized sooner rather than later, creating and maintaining a prioritized backlog with validated user stories, and facilitating team ceremonies over the course of the product’s iterations
- Understand how to engage in the process of human-centered design in order to better inform product direction
- Ability to collaborate with folks outside of your discipline, such as researchers, designers, engineers, and others, in order to get things done
- Ability to manage clients and stakeholders in a way that builds trust, alignment, and healthy environments for individuals and teams
- Understand the merits of different software development methodologies (e.g., agile, lean) and how to put them into practice
- Product experience with data ingestion and normalization across many sources (APIs, batch exports, streaming), and enough technical depth to work through warehouse and data modeling tradeoffs with data engineers
- Experience working on cross-functional teams (product, design, engineering, ops) in iterative delivery
- A mindset and work approach that aligns with our [core values](https://skylight.digital/company/values/)

Nice-to-haves

- Experience with multi-tenant cloud environments, enterprise platform consolidation, tenant rationalization, shared services, or cross-organizational platform adoption.
- Experience delivering data and analytics products, including data ingestion, APIs, data pipelines, warehouses or lakehouses, data modeling, and access controls.
- Experience developing or implementing enterprise integration patterns, including identity and access management, single sign-on, APIs, and data-sharing workflows.
- Experience taking a prototype or internal tool through production hardening, launch, and ongoing operations.
- Experience modernizing legacy applications or replacing manual business processes with digital services.
- Experience supporting organizational change, product adoption, migrations, or onboarding to shared technology services.
- Experience delivering technology in government, regulated industries, large federated organizations, or other public-benefit settings.
- Experience working with federal CIO organizations or enterprise IT organizations where technology ownership and decision-making are distributed across multiple components or business units.
- A track record of staying aligned and accountable on remote teams

Don’t meet every qualification but think you can do the job? We’d still love to hear from you. If you’re excited about the role, apply. We consider candidates with a range of backgrounds and experiences.

Other requirements

- Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.
- All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories.
- You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.
- You must be able to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.
- You must complete a company background check successfully.

Logistics

Position type

This is a full-time, exempt position.

Location

This is a fully remote position.

Travel

This role is remote, but occasional travel to DC may come up.

Expected start date

As soon as possible

Care package

Salary

We want to give you the most competitive salary possible. After all, you deserve it! To that end, we use the results of our interview process to determine what salary is most appropriate given your current level of seniority. For a Product Manager at Skylight, the current salary ranges are as follows:

- Associate Product Manager: $90,000–$125,000
- Product Manager I: $120,000–$140,000
- Product Manager II: $135,000–$160,000
- Senior Product Manager: $150,000–$185,000
- Staff Product Manager: $170,000–$203,000
- Principal Product Manager: $180,000–$230,000

## Benefits

Your well-being is important to us, so we focus on supporting you in a variety of ways:

- Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
- Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
- Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
- Up to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
- Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
- Business development / sales bonuses
- Referral bonuses
- Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
- Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
- Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
- Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
- An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good

Interview tips

Our process includes a preliminary screen, a skills interview, a behavioral interview, and a reverse interview where you meet your potential team — usually four conversations across two to three weeks. Here are some tips to help you prepare for a successful interview:

- Visit our [join page](https://skylight.digital/careers/join/#interview-process) to learn more about how our interview process works.
- Check out our [Career Pathways framework](https://skylight.digital/careers/career-pathways/) to learn more about the different roles within Skylight and the skills needed to do them.
- Browse our [case studies](https://skylight.digital/work/experience/) to learn more about our work.

If you’d like to request reasonable accommodations during the application or interviewing process, please contact our recruiting team at recruiting@skylight.digital.

We participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you’re authorized to work in the U.S.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.

## About Skylight

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Skylight is a digital consultancy that helps government agencies deliver better public services through human-centered design, lean-agile engineering, and digital transformation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (startup stage; offers stock options)
- **Headquarters**: Sarasota, Florida, USA (distributed/remote team across 34 states)
- **Founded**: June 2017
- **Founders**: Chris Cairns (President, co-founder of 18F and Technology Transformation Services)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Digital government consulting; public sector digital transformation
- **Target customers**: U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies (e.g., Veterans Affairs, immigration services)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Make government work in a digital world” – helping agencies become digital-first through culture change, modern practices, and empowered talent.

## Products & Services
Skylight offers professional services, not packaged products. Key service areas:
- **Digital Strategy & Transformation**: Roadmaps, operating model design, and organizational change management.
- **Human-Centered Design & Research**: User research, service design, and accessible interface design.
- **Lean-Agile Engineering**: Custom software development, DevOps, cloud migration, and modern infrastructure.
- **Data Science & Engineering**: Data pipelines, analytics, and machine learning for public-sector use cases.
- **Security & Compliance**: Security engineering, FedRAMP readiness, and zero-trust architecture.
- **Procurement & Acquisition**: Helping agencies buy digital services effectively using modern contracting methods.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Team size of 164 people (as of latest update); no public revenue or funding data
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Co-founded the **Digital Services Coalition**; no external investors disclosed (appears bootstrapped)
- **Growth Signals**: Growing headcount (164 people across 34 states), expanding client base to include Canadian government (Ottawa), active hiring for multiple senior/staff roles

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep government DNA**: Leadership and many team members came from 18F, U.S. Digital Service, and Presidential Innovation Fellows – giving them insider knowledge of how government works.
- **Culture-first approach**: Openly shares knowledge, treats every interaction as a teaching opportunity, and prioritizes culture change as a core part of transformation.
- **Distributed & remote-native**: Built as a remote-first company from the start, allowing them to attract top talent nationwide.
- **Public-service mission**: Employees are driven by impact, not profit – creating strong alignment with government clients.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling digital mastery**: Helping agencies institutionalize modern practices (human-centered design, lean-agile) rather than just delivering projects.
- **Expanding into defense & security**: Actively hiring a Vice President of Defense & Security, indicating a push into national security clients.
- **Building the talent pipeline**: Offering paid internships and apprenticeships to grow the next generation of civic tech practitioners.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: Directly improve public services for veterans, immigrants, and millions of other citizens.
- **Remote-friendly & flexible**: Distributed team across 34 states; decide when, where, and how to work.
- **Competitive compensation**: Salary, stock options (stake in company), performance rewards, referral bonuses.
- **Benefits**: 401(k) match up to 10% of salary; up to $2,000/year professional development budget; up to 12 weeks paid parental leave; medical/dental/vision with significant premium coverage; life insurance; HSA/FSA.
- **Time off**: Flexible PTO (≈25 days/year) plus 11 paid federal holidays.
- **Tech & swag**: Annual tech budget up to $750; $100 swag budget.
- **Culture**: Strong emphasis on growth mindset, inclusivity, and continuous improvement; code of conduct; community involvement (charitable donation match up to $500/year).
- **Hiring process**: All interviews via video; focuses on getting to know you, not trick questions; accommodations available.

## Sources
1. [skylight.digital - Home](https://skylight.digital/)
2. [skylight.digital - Join Us](https://skylight.digital/careers/join/)
3. [skylight.digital - Team](https://skylight.digital/company/about/)
4. [Greenhouse - Jobs at Skylight](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/skylighthq)

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