IT Principal - Product Management

Maximus is currently seeking an IT Principal - Product Management. The IT Principal - Product Management is a senior leadership role responsible for defining, driving, and executing the long-term product vision, strategy, and roadmap for critical business and technology solutions. This position serves as the strategic bridge between business and technology, ensuring investments in digital products, platforms, and capabilities deliver measurable customer, operational, and business value. The IT Principal - Product Management leads product lifecycle management from concept through adoption and continuous improvement while identifying opportunities for innovation, modernization, portfolio expansion, and market growth.

This is a remote position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Improve upon existing product processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation.

• Analyze market trends, customer feedback, and competitive landscape to inform product decisions.

• Work with cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle, from discovery to delivery, supporting bids and continuous improvement.

• Collaborate with stakeholders, contractors, and technical teams to ensure alignment and transparency.

• Develop business cases and prioritize initiatives based on ROI, customer impact, and strategic alignment.

• Provide guidance, coaching and training to junior level employees within technical area of expertise.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Define, communicate, and drive the long-term product vision, strategy, and roadmap for products, platforms, and solution portfolio.

• Develop forward-looking product strategies that evolve existing products into scalable, reusable solutions capable of supporting multiple customer segments, programs, and business opportunities.

• Partner with business and operational leaders to understand strategic objectives, customer needs, market dynamics, and emerging industry trends.

• Identify gaps between current product capabilities and future business needs and develop strategies to close those gaps.

• Analyze market trends, customer insights, competitive landscapes, regulatory requirements, and technology advancements to inform product strategy and roadmap decisions.

• Establish clear product outcomes, success metrics, KPIs, and strategic priorities that align with organizational objectives.

• Identify opportunities for innovation, transformation, and modernization that create competitive advantage and business value.

Minimum Requirements

'- Bachelor's degree and 10-12 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.

• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in Product Management, Program Management, Technology Leadership, or a related discipline.

• Product strategy, visioning, and roadmap development.

• Product portfolio management and investment planning.

• Business-to-technology alignment and solution development.

• Business case development and financial analysis.

• Product lifecycle management.

• Market analysis and competitive intelligence.

• Executive communication and influence.

• Cross-functional leadership and stakeholder engagement.

• Organizational change management and transformation.

• Risk assessment and strategic decision-making.

• Data-driven prioritization and performance measurement.

• Process improvement and operational excellence.

• Emerging technology evaluation and innovation leadership.

• Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills.

• Demonstrated success developing and executing product strategies, roadmaps, and portfolio plans.

• Experience leading complex enterprise technology, digital, software, platform, or business transformation initiatives.

• Proven ability to influence executive leadership and drive decisions across cross-functional organizations.

• Strong business acumen, strategic thinking, analytical problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.

• Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

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Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Minimum Salary

$164,880

Maximum Salary

$247,320