technical Product Manager

Job Description:

Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Serve as the primary product liaison to stakeholders, managing ongoing communication across multiple concurrent priorities and initiatives.
• Navigate complex stakeholder conversations to reconcile competing priorities, evolving requirements, and release constraints.
• Proactively identify gaps between documented specifications and requested functionality, and drive alignment before development begins.
• Negotiate release scope with stakeholders, ensuring realistic commitments aligned with engineering capacity and delivery timelines.
• Mitigate friction during code transfers by ensuring acceptance criteria and requirements are clearly defined, validated, and agreed upon in advance.
• Provide structured, transparent status reporting and risk escalation to senior stakeholders.

Product Management & Execution

• Own the product roadmap and backlog for assigned products
• Translate high-level epics —into clearly defined, executable epics and user stories.
• Drive requirements refinement by pushing for specificity, edge cases, non-functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Track and manage long-lived epics across multiple releases, ensuring continuity and traceability.
• Ensure alignment between products and other data services where cross-product dependencies exist.
• Maintain backlog health and transparency, ensuring development teams have clear priorities and well-defined work.

Quarterly Planning & Roadmap Governance

• Lead quarterly planning cycles in collaboration with stakeholders and engineering leadership.
• Decompose high-level strategic guidance from stakeholders into prioritized, actionable delivery plans.
• Identify risks early when high-level direction lacks sufficient detail and proactively drive clarification.
• Balance short-term release commitments with long-term platform scalability and technical sustainability.

Delivery & Quality Alignment

• Partner with technical delivery leads to:
• Align scope and sequencing
• Conduct release planning
• Track execution progress
• Ensure internal documentation is complete, accurate, and reflects current functionality before code transfer.
• Reduce post-transfer defect cycles by validating requirements completeness prior to handoff.
• Operate effectively in environments experiencing team turnover or schedule pressure, providing structure and clarity to maintain delivery momentum.

Technical Depth & Platform Understanding

• Develop strong working knowledge of cloud-native systems running in AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Kinesis, etc.).
• Understand system architecture well enough to:
• Evaluate feasibility of requests
• Identify integration risks
• Assess impact of scope changes
• Collaborate closely with TC developers to ensure solutions align with platform architecture and long-term maintainability.

Required Skills:

• 4+ years as a Technical Product Manager, Technical Project Manager, or Business Analyst in a software or SaaS environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex stakeholder relationships, particularly in matrixed or global organizations.
• Experience negotiating release scope and aligning cross-functional teams around delivery constraints.
• Proven ability to manage long-lived epics and ambiguous, high-level initiatives.
• AWS platform experience (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Kinesis or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and SaaS delivery models.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; able to articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, SQL, and diagramming tools (Lucidchart / Visio).
• Data-driven mindset with ability to analyze product and operational data.
• Detail-oriented with strong process discipline and focus on continuous delivery