Digital Product Manager

Position: Digital Product Manager
Location: Arlington, VA (2-3 Days/Month)
Duration: 6+ Months Contract

on W2/Self Corp
Candidate can be anywhere in VA or nearby state who is ready to be on-site for 2-3 days in a month.
Security Clearance Level – Secret or Top Secret

Department of Energy (DOE) experience is highly preferred

Key Responsibilities

• Define product requirements for customer-facing cloud identity services
• Set business strategy and make high-judgment roadmap prioritization trade-offs
• Synthesize customer requirements from developers, cloud architects, security engineers, and data administrators
• Communicate to Dept of State executive leadership
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders
• Manage risk and escalations, and balance business needs against technical constraints

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Active Secret Clearance required to start
• 5+ years of working as a Technical Product Manager experience
• Experience delivering large-scale SaaS, PaaS or LaaS products where you are responsible for the full product lifecycle, from concept through GTM (go to market)
• Experience with AI/ML technologies
• MBA, or master’s degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing
• Experience building customer-facing identity and access management products

What you''ll bring to the role

• Professional Maturity & Experience: Demonstrated success operating at a Principal level within Product Management, Technical Program Management, or Enterprise Architecture. Experience in IAM technologies, developer platforms (like Auth0), enterprise security, or machine-to-machine infrastructure is highly valued, but your proven ability to lead through influence is paramount.
• AI & Developer Tech Literacy: A strong conceptual and technical grasp of how AI agents, LLM applications, security gateways, and developer APIs handle authentication, authorization, and modern communication patterns (like MCP and OAuth 2.0).
• Session Security & Threat Literacy: A strong technical understanding of modern identity threat vectors (AiTM phishing, info-stealer malware, session hijacking) and how cryptographic hardware-binding (TPM, Secure Enclave) protects session state.
• Strategic Influence: A track record of successfully influencing product roadmaps and engineering priorities across highly matrixed, global organizations without direct reporting authority.
• Navigating Ambiguity: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills; the ability to maintain composure and produce concrete action plans from incomplete, conflicting, or highly ambiguous inputs.
• Executive Presence: Elite presentation, verbal, and written communication skills, with the confidence to brief executive leadership and translate deep technical architecture into compelling business value.