Product Manager

**Duties**: The following are the duties of this position at the **OR-53 (GS-13 equivalent)**. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.The incumbent: - Collaborates with program officials at all levels throughout the OFR to determine requirements, establish the scope of the work, and create schedules for delivery of products. Works closely with other team members, supports project planning efforts by providing resource and schedule estimations, measuring progress and productivity, providing documentation such as the project plan and vision, workflow diagrams, stakeholder requests, or other presentations as needed - Uses human centered design research methodology to probe, assess, and evaluate behaviors of targeted groups of people; translate that knowledge into meaningful information to inform and improve products and ensure product or service design is accessible to all populations and people the OFR serves. Develops mechanisms for gathering or using existing quantitative and qualitative data to help internal OFR stakeholders understand their customers; develops insights to inform decision-making, identify and scope problems; and embark on new research areas worth exploring through innovative methods. - Works across diverse teams to understand project constraints and goals, facilitate discovery workshops, synthesize user research and data analytics, and design interfaces and interactions; Uses a proficiency in Agile Scrum work processes to immediately execute tasks upon placement in the position. Heavy emphasis is placed on problem-framing, collaboration, identifying trade-offs, and communicating about the impact of different product directions with stakeholders. - Works as part of a distributed agile Scrum team, supporting sprint and project planning efforts, provides effort estimates, measure progress and productivity, and contributes to or authors artifacts such as project strategy documents, sprint review presentations, or other presentations as needed. **Requirements**: **Conditions of Employment**: **Key Requirements**: - Must be U.S. Citizen or U.S. National. - A one-year probationary period may be required. - Public Trust - Background Investigation will be required. - All new hires will be required to comply with federal ethics laws. A review of financial or other interests may be conducted to determine if they create any real or apparent conflict of interests with official Treasury duties. - Complete a Declaration for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment, at the time requested by the agency. - Have your salary sent to a financial institution of your choice by Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer. - If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so. - Go through a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process that requires two forms of identification from the Form I-9. Federal law requires verification of the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires in the U.S. - Please refer to the "**Additional Information**" section for **additional Conditions of Employment**. **Qualifications**: - You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.**Specialized experience for this position includes ALL of the following**: *** - **Experience with digital product management, requirements definition, backlog management, product roadmap development, product lifecycle, and systems engineering lifecycle processes; AND**: - **Experience supporting cross-functional product teams that combine the efforts of technical (developers, data engineers, economists, and data scientists) and non-technical (graphic designers, budget, operations) personnel to deliver digital products; AND**: - **Experience building and maintaining multi-level collaborative partnerships. Examples could include relationships with internal and external organizations to ensure the cooperation for competing needs or deadlines; AND**: - **Experience in support of cross-functional data products throughout the complete product lifecycle using Agile (Scrum or Kanban) implemented in Jira, Confluence, and Insight.** *** *** **Specialized experience for this position includes ALL of the following**: *** - **Experience with digital product management, requirements definition, backlog management, and product lifecycle; AND**: - **Experience on cross-functional product teams that combine the efforts of technical (developers, data engineers, economists, and data scientists) and non-technical (graphic designers, budget, operations) personnel to deliver digital products; AND**: - **Experience building and maintaining multi-level collaborative partnerships. Examples could include relationships with internal and external organizations to e