Technical Product Manager (Platform Team)

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We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to join our team.

This is a fixed hybrid role on-site Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at HQ in Maple Plain MN

The Technical Product Manager for Platform Engineering treats platform capabilities and internal developer tooling as products. They work closely with platform engineers, operations, and security to enable product teams to provide software solutions that are aligned with the company’s strategy and market needs. TPMs bridge technical and business objectives, planning and driving the product development process from conception to launch by removing blockers, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring programs deliver on scope, quality, schedule, and business value.     

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 d