Your Dream. Our Team.

About Rise8

Rise8 builds custom, secure software for government organizations, measuring success by impact: lives saved, time returned, and missions advanced. 

We think big, start small, and scale fast with elite teams across product, design, and engineering to drive continuous delivery for critical missions.

We believe customer experience starts with employee experience, so we take care of our employees. Rise8 is where you’ll do the best work of your career—supported by a culture you won’t find anywhere else. We offer competitive pay and benefits, but what sets us apart is our commitment to autonomy, growth, and a culture rooted in kindness, candor, and continuous learning. 

Certified as a Great Place to Work®, with 100% of employees saying they love working here, Rise8 is where bold ideas become real capabilities. Where mission meets meaning. And where fewer bad things happen because of bad software.

About You

• You want to make tomorrow better than today. 
• You have a passion for high-speed security and you care about risk management over compliance.
• You believe the biggest vulnerability in any system is time. You live to securely reduce cycle time.
• You enjoy daily decision making and real product delivery.
• You help ensure project success and client satisfaction. 
• You enjoy collaborative teams, pairing with team members, and inviting your clients to participate. 
• You like to work alongside, and learn from, lean and agile leaders. 
• You are a creative problem solver who is comfortable with uncertainty.
• You’re a curious and keen learner who thrives on enhancing your (and our) practices and knowledge.

As a Technical Product Manager for Mission OS at Rise8, you will:

• Serve as the connective tissue between technical execution and mission impact, translating complex DevSecOps, platform engineering, and digital transformation concepts into compelling, actionable content and product experiences.
• Partner with open source software (OSS) communities and contributors to shape tooling, content distribution, and platform integrations that amplify Mission OS's reach and impact.
• Drive continuous delivery of the Mission OS product — including the video series, workbook, marketing campaign, and live event strategy — applying lean product methodologies to optimize each release cycle.
• Own and evolve the product vision and strategy in collaboration with Rise8 leadership, content creators, marketing partners, and government stakeholders.
• Facilitate productive workshops and discovery sessions with subject matter experts, clients, and community members to extract insights and validate product direction.
• Actively embed with cross-functional teams — including developers, designers, content strategists, and government partners — modeling the balanced team practices central to the Mission OS curriculum.
• Assist clients and government change agents in adopting Mission OS principles, acting as both a product leader and a hands-on transformation practitioner.
• Apply the Improvement Kata and other Mission OS frameworks to your own work, continuously measuring outcomes and iterating based on evidence from production.

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years of experience spanning product management, technical program management, software engineering, or platform engineering, with a demonstrated track record of delivering outcomes in complex environments.
• Deep technical fluency — you can hold your own in architecture discussions, understand CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices, and evaluate platform and tooling tradeoffs without needing translation.
• Hands-on experience with open source software (OSS) — whether as a contributor, maintainer, community participant, or product leader who has built or shipped OSS-backed products.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor balanced, cross-functional teams across product, design, and engineering disciplines.
• Exceptional communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to distill technical complexity into clear narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong facilitation skills for leading workshops, discovery sessions, and cross-functional alignment activities.
• A deep passion for continuous skill development and a desire to tackle intriguing challenges and complex problems.
• Ability to obtain a security clearance for US Government work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within or alongside the Department of Defense, federal agencies, or large regulated enterprises.
• Proficiency in lean product methodologies — Lean Enterprise, Continuous Delivery, DORA metrics — and the ability to coach teams and stakeholders on their application.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices including Platform as a Service (PaaS), path-to-production pipelines, and Continuous Authority to Operate (cATO) frameworks.
• Experience building or growing a product community, educational program, or developer ecosystem.
• Motivation and interest in speaking and writing on product management, digital transformation, or govtech topics for clients and the broader community.
• Active Security Clearance.

Benefits 

• Flexible schedule in a 100% distributed workforce.
• Premium Insurance: We cover up to 100% of the employee premium and up to 80% of the combined dependent premium on our base health plan, depending on pay band. We also cover 100% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision as well as employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage.
• Retirement: 401k match at 10% gross pay.
• Paid time off (PTO): 4 weeks combined accrued vacation and sick leave, 11 Federal holidays, your birthday, jury duty, and bereavement.
• Education & Training: Accrued budget of up to $3,500 per year for classes, travel, events, and materials.
• Home Office and Merch: We offer $750 per year for home office technology and equipment as well as $100 per year for Rise8 merch from our Swag Store.
• Wellness Budget: To encourage and support a well-rounded healthy lifestyle, we cover 100% reimbursement on a variety of wellness activities and products, up to $500 per calendar year. 
• Rise8 is part of the Life Time Corporate Partner program. In lieu of your $500 annual wellness benefit, you can instead get a $75 monthly credit towards a Life Time membership ($900 annual benefit).
• Equipment: We offer a MacBook Pro.

All of Rise8’s work in this area is with Federal Government customers that require our employees involved with their projects be U.S. citizens. As such, this role requires U.S. citizenship. If hired, you would also be required to go through a background investigation.

Rise8 is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider you for this role regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.