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Technical Product Manager

Posted 4 Hours Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
Mid level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in USA
Mid level
The Technical Product Manager collaborates with stakeholders to deliver technology solutions, manage product roadmaps, and prioritize features while ensuring alignment with business objectives.
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Job Overview:

The Technical Product Manager collaborates with key stakeholders to shape and deliver technology solutions that align with business needs and product strategy. This role works closely with the Sr. Technical Product Manager and cross-functional design and engineering teams to define requirements, evaluate new ideas, and drive product enhancements.

This Technical Product Manager will bring a proven technical foundation in software development, architecture, or related disciplines and serve as a subject matter expert on the platform and underlying technologies. You will translate market needs into clear product requirements, define solution approaches, and help drive execution of the product vision.

This role plays a key part in managing the product roadmap and backlog, ensuring priorities are aligned with user needs and business objectives while maintaining clear and consistent communication with internal teams and stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities:

Product Roadmaps

  • Work with internal leadership to understand the strategic goals for the product
  • Manage, prioritize, and execute on the product roadmaps through user stories and cross-functional communication with Engineering, Development, QA, and Design team members
  • Work with customer-facing internal teams to identify and understand desired product feature additions and changes
  • Demonstrate proactive understanding of problems to find a clear solution
  • Understand and communicate technical constraints or dependencies and how these may affect the roadmap
  • In conjunction with the Sr. Technical Product Manager, helps prioritize features and other product changes into releases over time and reports to the Manager of Product Management
  • Communicate the value of the roadmap goals internally and externally as needed

Product Backlog

  • Define features and product changes to fulfill the strategic roadmap goals using input from all external and internal sources
  • Help manage an updated and prioritized backlog that has a clearly understandable set of user intent/value stories
  • Develop user personas, use cases, user stories, and requirement documents to help define a differentiated product
  • Create and manage epic, story, and bug tickets
  • Working with the Sr. Technical Product Manager, help manage the scope and content of each monthly release
  • Define the acceptance criteria new features
  • Collaborate with Design, Engineering, and QA to explain and refine each ticket
  • Work with Design to guide high-fidelity comps and behavioral details of new features
  • Assign and prioritize bug tickets from Customer Support and QA
  • Help troubleshoot usability issues and customer challenges with the product

Product Communications

  • Facilitate creation and maintenance of product documentation
  • In conjunction with the Sr. Technical Product Manager, prepare product release notes
  • Demo new features or functionality as needed to internal and external stakeholders

Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree with at least 4+ years of experience in technical product management
  • Experience working closely with software and design teams and engineers
  • Experience building and launching a SaaS products preferred
  • The ability to think critically and troubleshoot blockers and challenges
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail with the ability to meet deadlines
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience with systems design and development
  • Expertise in working with JIRA

To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit https://www.lexialearning.com/.

Remote First Work Environment 

Our Remote First approach gives employees the flexibility and trust they need to effectively balance work with life. It creates a culture in which all employees are valued and where success is measured in results. It allows us to work collaboratively, inclusively and for greater positive impact, regardless of our individual locations.

If you will be working remotely, either occasionally or on a permanent basis, you must have a reliable internet connection through a cable or fiber-optic broadband service with minimum speeds of 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload.

The successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in video-based interviews during the recruiting process and ongoing virtual meetings with their camera on, as part of their role. To maintain confidentiality and ensure a fair evaluation process, the use of note-taking tools, reference materials, or AI-powered tools (including generative AI, language models, or similar technologies) during interviews or other selection activities is prohibited unless prior written approval has been obtained from the People Experience team. If you require an exception for medical, accessibility, or other reasons, please contact your Talent Acquisition team member to discuss accommodations in advance.

As part of our Remote-First benefits, Cambium offers reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or remote office.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender, gender identity/expression, or sexual orientation), national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information (including family medical history).

We will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.  You may request an accommodation during the recruiting process with your Talent Acquisition team member.

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