Product Manager (US Citizen, on-site in DC 5 days a week)

Product Manager

Washington, District of Columbia

Providge is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead the strategy, design, and delivery of enterprise-scale data access management capabilities. This role is critical to shaping how users securely request, approve, and manage access to sensitive data across complex, regulated environments. 

The ideal candidate brings a strong blend of product leadership, user-centered design, and technical fluency, with hands-on experience delivering workflow-driven platforms that balance usability, governance, and security. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, data governance, security, and compliance teams to define intuitive, scalable, and policy-driven solutions that serve multiple user personas. This is an opportunity to own a high-impact product space where thoughtful design and disciplined execution directly support mission-critical outcomes 

Responsibilities 

• Manage the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for data access management, covering the full user experience for data stewards, owners, access requesters and approvers. 

• Define and deliver core foundational workflows and capabilities for requesting, approving, granting, reviewing, and revoking access to data 

• Partner closely with business, engineering, data governance, security and compliance teams to gather requirements and translate them into clear product specifications and priorities 

• Deeply understand user needs and pain points across different personas, and use that insight to drive intuitive, scalable, and compliant solutions 

• Lead discovery efforts including user research, journey mapping, and workflow design to ensure solutions are usable and aligned with real world processes 

• Balance short term delivery with long term platform and architecture considerations to support scalable, policy driven access management solutions. 

• Define success metrics and continuously measure, iterate, and improve the product basedon usage data and user feedback 

• Communicate product vision, progress, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders. 

Citizenship 

• US Citizenship  

Required Qualifications 

• At least 6 years in product management, engineering and/or management consulting.   

• At least 3 years of product management, product design, agile delivery, business analysis, data science, or software engineering.   

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities 

• Experience managing the delivery, ongoing success, and continuous improvement of one or more digital products and/or platforms.  

• Lead one or more multi-disciplinary agile delivery teams to deliver excellent new products and/or iterations to existing products to meet user needs.  

• Gather user requirements based on a communicable understanding of diverse audience groups.  

• Create effective, prioritized product descriptions, and delivery plans to meet user needs in a cost-effective way. 

• Experience managing complex workflow driven products and services.  

• Experience building products that span multiple user personas and require coordination across multiple teams or systems  

• Strong understanding of data access management, data governance or identity and access management concepts including familiarity with access control models such as RBAC and ABAC is a must.  

• Proven ability to gather ambiguous requirements, synthesize input from diverse stakeholders (business, security, data governance etc.) and drive alignment towards a clear product direction  

• Comfortable working closely with engineering teams on foundational capabilities, APIs and system integrations  

• Demonstrated ability to operate in an agile environment, owning the product backlog, defining and refining user stories, and delivering value through iterative, incremental releases.  

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence without authority and explain complex access and governance concepts clearly  

• Experience working with or integrating access management tools and platforms (e.g. entitlement systems, approval of workflows, policy engines, identity providers) is a plus.  

• Experience working in regulated or compliance sensitive environments is a plus 

Certificates  

• At least one of the following or its equivalent:     

• ITIL 4 Foundation certifications    

• Certified Product Manager    

•  Agile Certified Product Manager and Product Owner. 

Education 

• Bachelor’s degree  

Compensation & Benefits

• Full benefits offered