Part-Time

Director of Product Strategy & Design

Computer World Services

Computer World Services

201-500 employees

Mission-critical IT services for government

Compensation Overview

$125 - $175/hr

Falls Church, VA, USA

Remote

Category
Product (1)
Business & Strategy (1)
Required Skills
Business Strategy
Product Design
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • Demonstrated experience leading consumer product development.
  • Ability to discuss customer psychology, user experience, artificial intelligence, engineering trade-offs, and business strategy.
  • Ability to create clarity in ambiguous environments through systems thinking.
  • Ability to collaborate and inspire teams without relying on formal authority.
Responsibilities
  • Lead product strategy and evolve the long-term product vision.
  • Translate strategy into product roadmaps, epics, user stories, and development plans.
  • Lead product discovery, customer research, and journey mapping.
  • Guide user experience and user interface direction to create a premium consumer-grade experience.
  • Own the end-to-end member experience across onboarding, artificial intelligence coaching, scoring, education, engagement, and retention.
  • Partner across engineering, design, artificial intelligence, clinical, marketing, and leadership teams.
  • Champion a scalable design system and exceptional product quality.
  • Continuously validate assumptions through customer feedback and analytics.
  • Monitor emerging trends in artificial intelligence, digital health, wearables, and human performance.
  • Own feature priorities, technical and business dependencies, and product sequencing.
  • Plan releases.
  • Protect minimum viable product discipline while guiding long-term platform evolution.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with consumer mobile applications.
  • Experience in digital health, wellness, or human performance.
  • Experience with artificial intelligence-enabled products.
  • Experience with wearables and connected devices.
  • Experience with subscription platforms.
  • Experience with behavior-change or coaching products.
  • Experience at a startup or early-stage company.
  • Industry-related certifications.
Computer World Services

Computer World Services

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Computer World Services provides IT services and support to the Federal Government, focusing on mission-critical and enterprise needs. Its offerings include IT operations and maintenance, systems architecture and engineering, cloud solution services, agile software development, call center outsourcing, and cybersecurity. The company works by delivering a range of services through a staff of 400+ across 20+ federal customers worldwide, pairing hands-on operations with engineering, cloud, and security capabilities to meet government missions. It differentiates itself through formal quality and process certifications (ISO 9001:2015 and CMMI-DEV Level 3) and a track record of ongoing process improvement. The company’s goal is to provide reliable, secure, and scalable IT support and development to federal agencies, ensuring mission success and continual performance improvement.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Falls Church, Virginia

Founded

1990

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What believers are saying

  • September 2025 GPON awardability validates CWS modernization solutions for DoD networks.
  • July 2025 Project NEO awardability expands CWS into identity automation at DISA.
  • Hiring for AFIN support in 2025-2026 suggests the Air Force workbase is still active.

What critics are saying

  • CWS depends heavily on Air Force and federal contracting revenue concentration.
  • GAO dismissed CWS protest in February 2026, signaling weak bid-protest leverage.
  • If the 2031 Air Force contract is recompeted, larger integrators can displace CWS.

What makes Computer World Services unique

  • CWS won Platform One awards in 2025 for Project NEO and GPON.
  • CWS holds a $213.3 million Air Force cyberspace operations contract through 2031.
  • CWS combines IT operations, cloud, cybersecurity, and call-center support for federal missions.

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