Allegheny Careers Details

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We’re hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead the discovery, planning, development, procurement, and evaluation of digital tools that support county operations and public service delivery.

Allegheny County’s Department of Information Technology (DIT) is modernizing how the County buys, builds, and manages technology. We’re creating cross-functional pod teams that partner directly with departments to deliver effective, user-centered digital services.

• Partners with stakeholders to understand user needs, define features, and prioritize work.
• Leads product discovery and delivery using iterative, user-centered methods.
• Uses lightweight prototypes or manual workflows to validate ideas before committing to full development.
• Collaborates with UX, engineering, and external vendors to build practical and effective solutions.
• Contributes to department-wide product strategy and ensures alignment across initiatives.
• Communicates product goals, decisions, and progress clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provides informal mentorship and helps strengthen product management practices within the team.
• Performs additional duties as requested or required.

• Product management principles.
• Human-centered design.
• Agile method.
• Iterative, user-centered product methods, including discovery, backlog prioritization, minimum viable product (MVP) definition, and outcome-based roadmaps.
• Software acquisition options (custom development, software as a service (SaaS), and off-the-shelf) and the tradeoffs among them.
• Public-sector procurement, including request for proposal (RFP) development, vendor evaluation, and contract management
• User research and service design methods for identifying needs and validating them early.
• Core technology concepts (application programming interfaces (APIs), data, security, and system integration) sufficient to ask informed questions of engineering teams.

• Microsoft Office products.
• Facilitating discovery sessions with stakeholders and turning their needs into prioritized requirements.
• Writing clear product requirements, user stories, and success measures.
• Evaluating software options against defined criteria and documenting the basis for the decision.
• Managing vendor relationships and tracking delivery against scope, schedule, and budget.
• Communicating goals, tradeoffs, and status to executives, engineers, and non-technical staff.

• Learn a new subject area through self-directed research and reach working-level fluency quickly enough to lead discovery.
• Break down complex problems, identify core user needs, and define a practical minimum viable product (MVP).
• Validate ideas with low-cost prototypes or manual workflows before committing development resources.
• Make and defend product tradeoffs when stakeholder priorities conflict.
• Mentor colleagues and strengthen product practices across a team.
• Commit to collaboration, continuous learning, and improving public services through technology.
• Work with cross-functional teams using iterative, user-centered approaches.
• Manage multiple projects with tight deadlines.