[Hiring] Enterprise Practice Lead @State of Colorado

Role Description

The Enterprise Practice Lead, Product Management sets the standard for how product management is practiced across OIT and builds the community of product managers who meet it. OIT is moving from project delivery to product teams that stay accountable for outcomes after launch. Product Managers (PMs) in those pods need a shared standard, a peer community, and a path to grow. The Enterprise Practice Lead builds all three.

Where the PM embedded in a pod owns what gets built and why, the Enterprise Practice Lead owns how product management is practiced at OIT: the standards, tools, training, community, and career infrastructure that make every PM better at the job. OIT's position is that product ownership belongs with government employees rather than contractors, and that building that capability takes deliberate coaching, standards, and community. This role leads that work.

What this role is:

• You convene practitioners, write standards with them, teach, coach, and tell leadership where practice is weak and why.
• Standards earn adoption through your expertise, since the role has no reporting line over the PMs it serves.
• You won't run a backlog, a sprint, or a project plan.

Where the role sits:

• Guilds at OIT enable consistency, quality, and community across a federated team structure.
• Directors of Technology (DTs) manage the people in their pods, including performance evaluation.
• Enterprise Practice Leads guide and support practitioners and advise DTs on craft.
• This role reports into OIT's enterprise standards and governance organization and works alongside the other Enterprise Practice Leads.

Your first 90 days:

• You will meet the PMs across pods, assess how product management is practiced today, and agree with them the first set of standards and the operating rhythm of the PM community.

Qualifications

• Experience shaping how product management is practiced across multiple teams, beyond a single product or team.
• Ability to lead without management authority.
• Ability to build a genuine community among PMs across pods.
• Ability to coach and influence senior people, including senior PMs.
• Ability to hold standards while staying pragmatic.
• Ability to distinguish craft problems from delivery problems.
• Deep practitioner knowledge of product management.
• Knowledge of user-centered product development.
• Knowledge of government digital delivery practice.
• Hands-on fluency with the tools PMs use.
• Knowledge of career pathway design.

Requirements

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in product management, working in or leading cross-functional teams using iterative, user-centered methods.
• A track record of working across disciplines (design, engineering, policy, or operations) to deliver services that work for real people.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification in product management, such as Pragmatic Institute Product Management.
• Experience working within a digital service agency or a government-adjacent technology firm.
• Experience in modern procurement practices.
• Background in user-centered design (UCD).

Conditions of Employment

• OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state agency locations.
• A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process.
• This position may require travel within the specified geographic area.

Benefits

• Support for a healthy balance of work and personal time.
• Access to various offerings that allow for fulfilling lives.