[Hiring] Product Manager I @ASM Research

Role Description

The Product Manager I drives product strategy, definition, and delivery by applying our organization’s product management framework, standards and metrics. This role ensures the product or product component is grounded in market and customer insights, aligned with organizational goals, capable of delivering measurable business value, and aligns with GCC High / CUI security requirements. The Product Manager I serves as the bridge between stakeholders, developers, and end-users to drive positive outcomes across strategy, design, execution, and adoption.

• Gathers, documents, manages and validates organizational strategy and product requirements from internal stakeholders and users into product deliverables.
• Defines and manages the product lifecycle and expectations regarding scope, timelines, and resource constraints to ensure investment in areas that support long‑term business needs.
• Supports the gathering and assembling of well-vetted evidence to produce an analysis of alternatives (AoA) as inputs for build vs. buy decisions by IT Governance Council (ITGC).
• Creates, manages and refines product requirements documents (PRD), product backlog, user stories, acceptance criteria, functional requirements, personas, UX/design, and other supporting documentation as required.
• Supports application of ASM responsible-AI governance to every AI-enabled feature across the full product lifecycle.
• Supports product acquisition activities as required.
• Serves as the day-to-day point of contact between customers/stakeholders, vendors, product development teams, QA teams, and delivery teams.
• Prioritizes bugs, enhancements, and optimizations based on impact and urgency.
• Escalates risks, dependencies, and scope conflicts to senior product staff or management as needed.
• Creates, manages, and tracks release plans and implementation plans to completion.
• Coordinates release communications and communicates readiness across company, leadership, departments, and stakeholders.
• Coordinates with training teams or creates knowledge transfer materials (KB articles, videos, demos, etc.) to support user education and adoption.
• Measures product success and adoption rates using KPIs tied to value (efficiency gains, reduced manual work, fewer errors, etc.).
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 2-5 years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in Product Management for digital products using AI or Generated-by-AI preferred.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies preferred.
• Experience gathering and documenting business/functional requirements and delivering digital products.
• Agile certification preferred.
• Pragmatic Institute Product Management Certification or Certified Product Manager preferred.

Requirements

• Understands Product Management Fundamentals for internal teams.
• Skills in prioritization, roadmap management, and release planning.
• Basic understanding of AI-generated applications, web-based applications, data models, APIs, integrations, and system dependencies.
• Skills with AI prompt engineering, AI agents, and AI app generation.
• Ability to read and grasp essential technical documentation.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and facilitation skills.
• Critical thinking skills with the ability to decompose complex concepts into simpler forms.
• Ability to manage competing priorities along with stakeholder expectations.
• High level of organizational awareness and diplomacy.
• Working knowledge of Agile tools (e.g. GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jira).
• Working knowledge of the Pragmatic Framework for internal teams preferred.
• Working knowledge of common AI tools, AI agents and GenAI preferred.
• Working knowledge of AI Governance preferred.

Benefits

• Compensation ranges for ASM Research positions vary depending on multiple factors.
• The compensation displayed for this role is a general guideline based on these factors and is unique to each role.
• Monetary compensation is one component of ASM's overall compensation and benefits package for employees.

Company Description

It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to these fundamental policies.

• All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or age.
• All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.