Product Manager

Responsibilities

• Own the full software product lifecycle, leading initiatives from early discovery and requirements gathering through development, UAT and final production release.
• Drive Agile execution by maintaining a healthy backlog, leading sprint ceremonies, monitoring team velocity, and ensuring deadlines and milestones are consistently met.
• Translate complex or ambiguous business needs into clear, actionable User Stories, Acceptance Criteria and Functional Specifications that reduce engineering rework and accelerate delivery.
• Identify and manage risks and dependencies across systems and teams, proactively removing technical blockers to maintain delivery momentum.
• Serve as the primary communication bridge between executive leadership, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to ensure alignment and shared understanding across all phases of delivery.
• Work with project and company leadership to drive AI products and processes around how AI is going to be used at Index.
• Support business development activities and proposal activities as needed.

Qualifications

• A U.S. citizen or authorized to work in the United States and eligible to demonstrate physical residency in the U.S. for at least three (3) of the past five (5) years.
• Must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Public Trust security clearance.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field. Product Owner certification (CSPO, PSPO) or Scrum certification are preferred.
• Five (5) or more years of experience, including two (2) or more years in Product Management within a software delivery environment.
• Proficiency in Jira, Confluence, or similar project management and documentation suites.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous government contracting experience strongly preferred.
• General understanding of how data moves between modern SaaS and legacy on-premise systems (e.g., APIs, batch processing).
• MuleSoft experience a nice to have.
• Experience working on projects that involve extracting data from older legacy applications.
• Experience coordinating complex deployments that involve multiple moving parts and testing environments.

Benefits

The salary range provided represents the estimated compensation for new hires in this position, applicable across all locations. Actual offers may vary based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and market conditions. Index complements its base salary offering with a competitive package that includes health and retirement benefits, discretionary bonuses, and reimbursement for professional development opportunities.