Technical Product Lead

Overview of Opportunity

The Technical Product Lead serves as the bridge between mission requirements and technical execution. This role will have responsibility for developing, guiding, and supporting the strategic direction of a portfolio of programs, blended with deeper tactical-level involvement in certain programs as needed. The Technical Product Lead adjudicates inbound requirements from various Program Product Owners and partners with the Chief Architect and Program Management to ensure a unified, scalable product roadmap that avoids technical drift.

This work will be onsite in our Arlington, VA office. 

Core Responsibilities

• Tactical to Strategic Program Enablement: Traverse the tactical and strategic levels of programs, engaging deeply at the customer/user level to ensure program success while extracting insights that strengthen the core product baseline.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Deliver high-level technical briefings and demonstrations to senior government leadership and other stakeholder audiences to communicate product value and roadmap strategy.
• Requirements Adjudication: Act as an authority for technical requirements across a portfolio of programs leveraging a shared codebase. Work across program Product Owners and technical teams to prioritize feature requests and ensure alignment with the core product baseline.
• Mission Translation: Coach and guide program Product Owners on the discovery and refinement of customer operational needs, translating complex customer friction points into actionable engineering specifications.
• Operational Validation: Understand, make recommendations, and provide guidance for on-site capability deployment and configuration to ensure capabilities function reliably within deployment environments and meet mission intent.
• Portfolio Governance: Partner with Chief Architect and engineering teams to support maintenance of shared codebase integrity by identifying commonalities across programs and consolidating them into enterprise-ready capabilities.
• Architectural Partnership: Collaborate with the Chief Architect to validate that mission-driven requirements are technically feasible and architecturally sound.

Qualifications

• Domain Expertise: 7+ years of experience in cyber operations, gained through military service, federal employment, or as an industry partner. Must possess a deep understanding of cyber principles, operational workflows, and technical mission constraints.
• Strategic & Operational Context: 5+ years operating within or directly supporting Operational or Combatant Command (CCMD) staff. Requires a working knowledge of military battle rhythms, Joint Planning Process, or other knowledge, skills, and abilities gained as a service member, government civilian, or embedded contractor.
• Requirements Leadership: Proven experience managing competing technical priorities in a fast-paced multi-stakeholder environment.
• Technical Literacy: Ability to drive technical discussions with engineering teams without requiring hands-on codebase management.
• Ability to travel up to 25% for on-site mission support.
• Clearance: Active DoD Top Secret security clearance with the ability to obtain SCI and poly. Active TS/SCI ideal.

Preferred Skills

• Portfolio Tools: Proficiency with Jira/Confluence and other tools for requirement tracking and roadmap management.
• Military Planning: Experience within/adjacent to the US Cyber Mission Force (CMF) or as a Joint Planner.
• Technical Fluency: Familiarity with Linux command line, cloud architectures, virtual machines, data models and basic scripting, as well as Python, SQL, and similar for product validation and data-driven decision-making.

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