Product Manager

About the role

As a Product Manager, you will take complete ownership of program health—balancing execution, strategy, and relationship management to drive mission success. You will be responsible for leading a fast-moving software development team, ensuring contract deliverables are met while navigating evolving priorities and customer needs. This role requires someone who thrives in ambiguity, is comfortable wearing multiple hats across program, project, and product management, and can effectively bridge the gap between technical teams and customer stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Guiding Agile software development cycles
• Engaging directly with DoD stakeholders to grow customer intimacy
• Adapting to shifting requirements to keep the team on track
• Managing product roadmaps
• Oversight of delivery execution
• Providing strategic leadership to ensure program success

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in program, project, or product management with a focus on Agile software development
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and drive clarity where needed
• Proven leadership in software development teams, ensuring execution and alignment with customer needs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience engaging with senior DoD stakeholders
• Ability to balance execution and strategy, ensuring both day-to-day success and long-term growth
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, product roadmapping, and program execution
• STEM degree or equivalent technical acumen must be able to understand and communicate technical concepts

Preferred

• Experience working with DoD customers
• Track record of managing program financials, including P&L ownership
• Agile certification(s)
• Experience in a software factory environment
• Familiarity with ATO and RMF processes

Clearance Requirements

Active Secret security clearance with ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret/SCI security clearance

Work Type

Onsite at Hanscom AFB, MA
May require up to 25% travel

Pay

$140,000.00-$180,000.00

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) and company match
• Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays
• Education & training benefits
• Generous Referral Bonuses

Our Vision Statement

We bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession with the mission.

Our Customer Obsession

We will approach every deliverable like it's a product. We will adopt a customer-obsessed mentality. As we grow, and our footprint becomes larger, teams and employees will treat each other not only as teammates but customers. We must live the customer-obsessed mindset, always. This will help us scale and it will translate to the interactions that our Rafters have with their clients and other product teams that they integrate with. Our culture will enable our success and set us apart from other companies.

How do we get there?

Public-sector modernization is critical for us to live in a better world. We, at Raft, want to innovate and solve complex problems. And, if we are successful, our generation and the ones that follow us will live in a delightful, efficient, and accessible world where out-of-box thinking, and collaboration is a norm.

Raft’s Core Philosophy

Ubuntu: I Am, Because We are. We support our “nadi” by elevating the other Rafters. We work as a hyper collaborative team where each team member brings a unique perspective, adding value that did not exist before. People make Raft special. We celebrate each other and our cognitive and cultural diversity. We are devoted to our practice of innovation and collaboration.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.