Technical Product Manager (Platform Team)

What you’ll do

• Define and communicate a platform/product vision that aligns with the company’s strategic objectives and market needs

• Help evolve and maintain a platform/product roadmap, prioritizing features and requirements based on stakeholder needs, market changes, and strategic goals

• Translate business goals into technical priorities, acceptance criteria, and testable requirements with strong consideration for stakeholder needs and operational constraints

• Establish internal “customer” understanding via continuous discovery: proactively look for and solve the pain points of engineering teams

• Take product-oriented ownership of the relevant aspects of the platform (largely developer tooling and resources)

• Manage end-to-end planning and execution for concurrent technical programs, including timelines, milestones, and delivery coordination

• Collaborate with engineering technical leadership and communities of practice to help define and approve architecture and technical design; apply core-stack and domain patterns appropriately

• Facilitate agile planning to maintain alignment and predictability

• Define and track program success metrics, analyze product performance and user engagement, and iterate on product offerings based on data and feedback

• Coordinate cross-functional teams and act as the primary liaison between technical and business stakeholders, providing proactive updates, presenting product demos, and communicating strategy and status to all audiences

• Identify, log, and mitigate risks; escalate and drive contingency planning as needed

• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitor offerings to continuously refine the product strategy 

• Oversee the product development process to ensure timely delivery of high-quality products that meet customer and market demands

• Mentor new hires and collaborate with peers; explain technical concepts clearly and help grow team capability

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)

• 3+ years managing multi-team programs with cross-functional dependencies

• Experienced with Agile practices at team and program levels (Scrum, PI planning, SAFe or equivalent)

Nice to Have 

• Strong familiarity with developer tooling/platform domains: CI/CD, build systems, source control workflows, artifact management, IaC, containers/Kubernetes, service catalogs, event-based architecture, observability/telemetry, incident management

• Experience with cloud platforms and platform security practices (IAM, secrets, policy-as-code, software supply chain) yeah

• Familiarity with common tooling ecosystems (e.g., GitHub/GitLab, Azure DevOps, Argo/GitOps, Terraform, Backstage, Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty)

• Experience with multi-stack software environments I think so right so it's not going to be a problem for all of us but

Required Expertises

 

• Understanding of platform as product: ability to treat engineering teams as customers and plan solutions that meet their needs and enable their work. 

• Strong technical fluency, especially in developer tooling, architecture, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and eventing. 

• Understanding of the challenges of supporting multiple technical stacks. 

• Strong communication: writes clear PRDs/RFCs, migration/deprecation comms, and executive updates; can translate between platform engineers and product teams. 

• Able to write and speak with honesty, brevity, and the intent of explaining things in a way the intended audience will understand. 

• Outcome-driven prioritization - makes tradeoffs using data (telemetry) and qualitative inputs (developer feedback), with a bias toward reducing toil and accelerating time-to-value. 

• Proven program planning and execution skills: road mapping, milestone tracking, dependency management, risk mitigation. 

• Strong facilitation skills for cross-functional planning and problem resolution. 

• Able to work independently on assigned tasks, tackle complex problems, identify edge cases, and navigate ambiguity. 

• Proactive mindset: suggests and implements improvements and optimizations to processes and tools. 

• Able to engage in valuable, open, exchanges of differing ideas through productive conflict. 

• Strong sense of accountability. Take ownership of assigned work, seek clarification or guidance when needed, and deliver on time

What's in it for you?

We offer a competitive salary and annual bonus opportunity
In addition, we offer amazing benefits including but not limited to:
Health Insurance: Traditional OR High Deductible plan
Flexible Spending Accounts
Health Savings Account (including employer contributions)
Dental and Vision
Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Paid caregiver leave
You will receive at least 3 weeks of PTO + Holiday Pay + Wellness Hours + Volunteer Hours
401k with company match and immediate vest
Employee Stock Purchase Program at a 15% discounted rate
Matching grants through Protolabs foundation
And More!