Technical Product Manager/Product Owner in Bathesda, Virginia at Apavo Corporation

About Apavo

Apavo is a woman-owned cybersecurity company supporting Department of Defense and Intelligence Community missions. We're a small, dedicated team where your expertise is valued and your work directly supports national security.

About the Role

Apavo is hiring a Technical Product Manager to turn mission needs into working AI capability for an Intelligence Community customer. You'll sit between government users and the engineering team and keep delivery moving from concept to deployment.

What You'll Do

• Work with government users to understand mission needs and set practical priorities.
• Own the roadmap and backlog, and write clear outcomes and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate dependencies across engineering, security, and test teams.
• Move capabilities through demonstration, deployment, user feedback, and government review.
• Manage delivery against schedule and compute or cloud budgets.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• 8+ years of technical product, program, or project management on software teams.
• Enough hands-on background in AI infrastructure (APIs, RAG, agents) to make sound trade-offs with engineers.
• A track record of shipping software on schedule.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current on-site work in an IC customer space.
• Agile delivery experience with government stakeholders.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance starting on your first day, with Apavo covering 90% effective January 1, 2027.
• 401(k) with a 3.5% employer match, starting January 1, 2027.
• 20 days of paid time off plus 11 paid federal holidays.
• Up to $3,000 a year in training and certification reimbursement.
• Parking reimbursement.

Apavo is an Equal Opportunity Employer.