Job#: 3023412 Job Description: Technical Product Manager
Location: Plano, Texas (Partial Remote)
Employment Type: Contract
Role Overview
We are seeking a Technical Product Manager to serve as the primary product liaison to stakeholders. This role involves managing ongoing communication across multiple initiatives, navigating complex conversations to reconcile priorities, and ensuring alignment between product strategy and execution. The successful candidate will own the product roadmap and backlog, drive requirements refinement, and collaborate with engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary product liaison, managing communication with stakeholders across concurrent priorities.
- Own the product roadmap and backlog for assigned products, translating high-level epics into executable user stories.
- Lead quarterly planning cycles in collaboration with stakeholders and engineering leadership.
- Partner with technical delivery leads to align scope, conduct release planning, and track execution progress.
- Develop a strong working knowledge of cloud-native systems running in AWS to evaluate request feasibility and identify risks.
- Negotiate release scope with stakeholders, ensuring realistic commitments aligned with engineering capacity.
- Drive requirements refinement by defining specificity, edge cases, non-functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Ensure internal documentation is complete and accurate before code transfer to reduce post-transfer defect cycles.
Required Qualifications
Experience: 4+ years as a Technical Product Manager, Technical Project Manager, or Business Analyst in a software or SaaS environment. Experience managing complex stakeholder relationships, particularly in matrixed or global organizations, is required.
Technical Skills: AWS platform experience (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Kinesis or equivalent) is necessary. Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, SQL, and diagramming tools such as Lucidchart or Visio is also required. A strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and SaaS delivery models is expected.
Compensation & Benefits
The pay rate for this position is between $60.00 and $70.00 per hour. Specific compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and qualifications. A benefits package is available to eligible employees.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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