Technical Product Manager

Role: Technical Product Manager
Mode: Onsite
Duration: 6+ Months
(Only W2)
Location: Baltimore, MD 

Key Skills: Technical product management; background in consumer finance

Job Description:
We are looking to hire a Technical Product Manager (TPM) to help us systematically modernize the core services that power our originations journey.
Many of these services are deeply embedded within legacy platforms, with limited visibility into how they function end-to-end today. This role will be responsible for taking a structured, service-by-service approach to unpacking that complexity and translating it into incremental, deliverable improvements, building a clear understanding of current-state architecture, dependencies, data flows, and operational constraints.
From that foundation, the TPM will partner with engineering and architecture to shape and align on the forward-looking vision for each service, identifying opportunities to simplify, decouple, and evolve toward a more modular, scalable, and maintainable ecosystem. This includes partnering closely with product and engineering leadership to translate insights into actionable roadmaps and incremental modernization strategies.
We are seeking a Technical Product Manager with a proven track record of breaking down complex systems, creating clarity in ambiguity, and delivering incremental, high-impact improvements.
Success in this role requires strong technical fluency, systems thinking, and the ability to navigate ambiguity—paired with a pragmatic, execution-oriented mindset that moves from discovery to tangible outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:
• Technical Roadmap Ownership: Work closely with the lead product manager to understand strategic goals, and own prioritization and tradeoffs for the cross-team technical roadmap in alignment with product and engineering leadership, ensuring higher-priority work is clearly defined, ready, and sequenced for focused delivery.
• Dependency Management & Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify, track, and manage cross-team dependencies to ensure teams can deliver sprint outcomes on time. Where dependencies exist, surface trade-offs with recommendations and reshape work or sequencing to enable independent delivery.
• Technical Requirement Refinement: Partner with Engineering Managers and Tech Leads to shape and document technical requirements, ensuring clarity of outcomes and constraints, capturing architectural decisions and trade-offs, ensuring alignment with product outcomes and cross-team contracts.
• Work Decomposition and Scope Discipline: Decompose work into clear, outcome-oriented increments that can be completed within a single sprint and deliver observable value, with a focus on delivering the minimum necessary to achieve measurable business outcomes.
• Product Advocate: Serve as the product advocate for initiatives, articulating the business drivers and implications to technical stakeholders and technical considerations to non-technical stakeholders.

Why You’ll Succeed:

• You value proactive, no-surprise communication with your product and engineering teams.
• You possess a strong product mindset and can balance short-term feature demands with long-term platform stability.
• You use thoughtful questioning to clarify problems, challenge assumptions, and focus work on the simplest solutions that deliver meaningful outcomes.
• You influence decisions through clarity, context, and strong reasoning, rather than relying on authority or prescribing solutions.
• You build relationships and trust with colleagues across teams.
• You value shared terminology and ensure mutual understanding across colleagues with different technical backgrounds and expertise.
• You foster trust and respect by including engineers in the why of product development.

Mandatory Skills:

• Experience: 4+ years of experience as a Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, Technical Program Manager or supported similar responsibilities as a Developer or Business Analyst.
• Technical Fluency: Ability to understand system architecture, data pipelines, microservices, contract design, and engage effectively in technical discussions without owning implementation decisions. While not required to code, you must be able to discuss technical trade-offs with engineers.
• Dependency Mapping: Proven ability to manage dependencies in complex, multi-team environments using tools like Jira, Confluence, or similar.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical constraints and business impact.

Desired Skills:

• Experience in the financial industry
• Background in software engineering or systems architecture.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with containerization and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in architecture modernization projects and iterative greenfield development.