Product Manager – Reston, VA

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with developers across portfolios to understand pain points, workflow challenges, and opportunities to improve the developer experience.
• Plan and conduct pilots, empathy sessions, focus groups, surveys, and feedback sessions to evaluate developer tools, platform capabilities, and processes.
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative feedback into actionable insights, backlog improvements, and prioritized product recommendations.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, Product, UX, and Engineering teams to incorporate developer feedback into roadmap and delivery priorities.
• Define, track, and report on Developer Experience KPIs and OKRs, including adoption, satisfaction, onboarding, usability, and productivity.
• Operationalize successful pilots and improvements through rollout plans, repeatable processes, ownership, measurement, and adoption activities.
• Develop and coordinate consolidated product communications for pilots, launches, enhancements, roadmap updates, and developer-facing changes.
• Measure outcomes and prepare leadership readouts highlighting insights, progress against OKRs, adoption trends, and recommended actions.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in product management, program management, developer experience, user research, or technology delivery.
• Experience leading pilots, focus groups, empathy sessions, surveys, workshops, or similar feedback initiatives.
• Ability to translate developer/customer feedback and data into actionable product priorities and backlog improvements.
• Experience defining and tracking KPIs, OKRs, adoption metrics, and product outcomes.
• Experience supporting product communications, launches, rollout, and operationalization.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Developer Experience (DX), Developer Productivity, or Internal Developer Platforms (IDP).
• Familiarity with developer platforms and tooling such as Backstage, GitLab CI/CD, developer portals, and software templates.
• Experience with product discovery, experimentation, user research, and adoption strategies.
• Familiarity with developer satisfaction, productivity, onboarding, and usability metrics.
• Experience supporting platform modernization, digital transformation, or developer productivity initiatives.