Project/Product Manager

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit www.unissant.com.

We are seeking a Project/Product Manager to join our team and support our client, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This is a remote position.

The ideal candidate is an experienced IT product and program leader who can direct delivery across a complex enterprise artificial intelligence portfolio. This individual will coordinate FEMA stakeholders, product owners, solution teams, and subcontractor personnel to deliver secure, production-ready AI capabilities through Agile and System/Software Engineering Life Cycle processes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Direct day-to-day program execution, including staffing, schedule, quality, risk, dependencies, and stakeholder coordination for complex AI initiatives.

• Lead Agile ceremonies; manage sprint backlogs and the integrated master schedule using JIRA and FEMA-provided management tools.

• Establish and operate a Joint Development Team model that enables continuous product-owner engagement, work-in-progress demonstrations, and documented Government feedback.

• Produce and maintain required program artifacts, including weekly work reports, sprint planning, performance and retrospective reports, monthly status reports, communications plans, risk and issue registers, and executive-level reporting.

• Coordinate AI solution architects, engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity personnel, subcontractors, and FEMA program offices to translate mission needs into prioritized releases.

• Ensure recommendations and delivery plans align to FEMA's current architecture, operating environment, security requirements, and future enterprise capability goals.

• Manage subcontractor performance, staffing continuity, quality assurance, and timely completion of all deliverables.

• Communicate program status, decisions, delivery risks, and mitigation strategies to technical and executive stakeholders.

Work Experience and Job Skills:

• Five (5) to ten (10) years of experience managing complex IT, software-development, AI/ML, or cloud-modernization programs.

• Experience managing Agile delivery, product backlogs, sprint cycles, integrated schedules, risk management, and executive reporting.

• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams delivering cloud-hosted, data-driven, or AI-enabled applications.

• Working knowledge of front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Strong stakeholder-management, facilitation, communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

Education:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field required.

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations:

• PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, Product Owner, or comparable Agile/project-management certification preferred.

Communication Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to facilitate Agile ceremonies and present program performance, risks, and recommendations to technical and executive audiences.

• Ability to write clear, concise content and manage sensitive information in a highly confidential manner.

Clearance Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship is required.

• Favorably adjudicated FEMA Public Trust suitability is required before the employee's start date.

• Must complete applicable DHS/FEMA security awareness, privacy, OPSEC, insider-threat, unauthorized-disclosure, and FOUO/CUI safeguarding training.

Travel:

• This is a remote position. Travel may be required based on client and business needs.

Environmental Requirements:

• Mainly a routine office environment.

• May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds.

• Flexible in working extended hours as needed.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Unissant management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, where applicable and available, reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position.

Please note: Candidate(s) will be required to go through pre-employment screening.

Unissant, Inc. is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer! (EOE; M/F/Disability/Vets)