Principal Technical Product Manager

ECS is seeking a *Principal Technical Product Manager* to work in our *Fairfax, VA*office.

# Position Overview

We are seeking a highly technical, mission-focused Principal Technical

Product Manager to lead rapid prototyping initiatives and emerging technology demonstrations that drive innovation and business growth. This role is responsible for translating cutting-edge ideas into tangible, demonstrable solutions that address real customer challenges.

The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, can move from concept to working prototype quickly, and excels at defining clear product outcomes, backlogs, and success metrics. This position serves as a critical bridge between strategy, capture, and delivery—ensuring innovative concepts become credible, secure, and executable mission-ready solutions.

# Key Responsibilities

## Rapid Prototyping & Technical Innovation

• Lead rapid prototyping “tiger team” efforts to design, build, and demonstrate proof-of-concept (POC) solutions within compressed development timelines.
• Architect and implement cloud-native, secure, and scalable prototype environments that showcase emerging technologies.
• Translate customer pain points, draft requirements, and mission scenarios into innovative and technically sound solution architectures, user stories, and prioritized prototype backlogs.
• Apply agile, Lean, and iterative development practices to accelerate experimentation, incorporate user feedback, and reduce technical risk.
• Evaluate the feasibility, maturity, cost, and security implications of emerging technologies before recommending enterprise adoption.

## Product Management & Prototype-to-Product

• Own the prototype portfolio and roadmap: intake, prioritization, sequencing, and resourcing across multiple customer needs and strategic bets.
• Define measurable product outcomes (e.g., time saved, operator workload reduction, accuracy, throughput) and instrument prototypes to validate impact.
• Establish product requirements artifacts appropriate to phase (problem statements, PRFAQs/one-pagers, user journeys, acceptance criteria) to align stakeholders and accelerate delivery.
• Run lightweight discovery and validation (user interviews, workflow mapping, usability tests, A/B evaluations where applicable) and convert findings into iteration plans.
• Drive prototype-to-product transition planning: MVP scope, dependencies, technical debt triage, and release readiness criteria for production programs.
• Partner with engineering leads to make pragmatic tradeoffs across scope, schedule, quality, and security posture while preserving user value.

## Emerging Technology Demonstrations

• Develop compelling, customer-facing technical demonstrations designed to support growth areas and capture strategies.
• Design demonstration environments and demo scripts that highlight differentiation, scalability, operational viability, and user outcomes.
• Support live demos, technical exchanges, industry events, and proposal orals; incorporate feedback loops to improve product-market fit for mission users.
• Convert successful prototypes into reusable reference architectures, demo kits, accelerators, and productizable components.

## Architecture & Engineering Leadership

- Serve as a hands-on technical leader, contributing directly to architecture design, infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, containerization, API integration, and data workflows.
Embed DevSecOps and security-by-design principles throughout solutions, with clear maturity gates from demo pilot- production.
- Ensure alignment with cloud best practices, cybersecurity frameworks, and enterprise architecture standards.
- Develop transition strategies to move validated prototypes into scalable production environments, including operational concepts, support models, and sustainment considerations.
- Document technical decisions and patterns so prototypes can be reused and scaled across programs and customers.

## Business Development & Strategy

• Partner with capture and business development teams to identify high-impact technical discriminators and productizable accelerators.
• Provide technical and product thought leadership (one-pagers, whitepapers, concept briefs) and advise on innovation investments that strengthen competitive positioning.
• Maintain awareness of technology trends and emerging solution patterns; translate them into product opportunities and experiment proposals.
• Advise leadership on emerging technology adoption strategy, portfolio positioning, and where to standardize versus differentiate.
• Support proposal development by contributing to solution narratives, technical volumes, demo plans, and risk/mitigation approaches when needed.

Requirements:

• *Active TS/SCI security clearance.*
• *Must be a US Citizen.*
• *Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent relevant experience.*
• 8–10+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise technical solutions and/or technical products in cloud-native environments.
• Proven experience leading rapid prototyping or proof-of-concept initiatives and driving iteration based on user feedback.
• Strong solution architecture experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Secure architecture and compliance considerations; ability to incorporate security early without slowing iteration.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures and actionable product requirements (epics/user stories/acceptance criteria).
• Experience supporting proposal, capture, or customer-facing solutioning efforts.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in Federal contracting environments preferred.

Req Benefits:

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