Technical Product Manager

The Manager of Technical Product Management evaluates and resolves technical feasibility, design optimization, and production issues. Manages and coordinates product development projects. Being a Manager of Technical Product Management researches and monitors existing client base and industry developments and identifies potential new product opportunities. Ensures that labeling and marketing/promotional literature match product specifications. In addition, Manager of Technical Product Management works with other departments to establish a design, technology, product development, and vendor strategy. Manages project budgets and prepares financial analysis reports for top management. May require a bachelor’s degree or in a related area. Typically reports to top management. The Manager of Technical Product Management manages subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs. True first level manager. Ensures that project/department milestones/goals are met and adhering to approved budgets. Has full authority for personnel actions. Extensive knowledge of department processes. Working as a Manager of Technical Product Management typically requires 5 years experience in the related area as an individual contributor. 1 to 3 years supervisory experience may be required.

Technical Product Manager Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Technical Product Manager to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Maintaining an outcomes focussed product roadmap and ensuring that it is communicated with relevant stakeholders;
  • Collect & evaluate Product feedback;
  • Solving technical challenges knows to what level they need to take their understanding, and can communicate to a level appropriate to the audience;
  • Relentless prioritisation and alignment with stakeholders to ensure products are capable of capturing the highest value;
  • Stakeholder engagement. Act as the interface to the product team for engaging stakeholders on inbound product requirements;
  • Maintaining a prioritised product backlog and negotiating / communicating trade-offs with teams;
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and challenge the team on delivery speed and quality of the work;
  • Setting hypotheses, testing riskiest assumptions and breaking down complex problems into small steps;
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams;
  • Articulating and communicating the product vision;
  • Lead the requirement ceremonies for the team;
  • identify and prioritize key issues and opportunities for innovation;
  • Own the full requirements life cycle (from roadmap to story);
  • Create product plans and roadmaps;
  • Discovering and defining product requirements through working with internal teams.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of Product Management experience;
  • Nice to have: Experience leading product teams focused on internal tools;
  • Product design;
  • Experience setting and iterating on the product strategy of highly technical and/or infrastructure related projects;
  • Degree in Computer Science or Machine Learning OR equivalent experience;
  • Experience defining APIs, documentation, and building UX prototypes;
  • Experience working within an agile delivery methodology;
  • Experience building a IaaS / SaaS / Cloud API product;
  • Customer/client facing experience;
  • A degree or higher level academic background in a scientific or engineering subject;
  • 4-8 years of relevant work experience in enterprise or related software;
  • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills;
  • Able to understand, simplify and document complex business flows and present them to the team;
  • Excellent organisational and analytical skills with strong technical abilities;
  • Experience managing projects that use machine learning tools in production.