Technical Product Manager, Data Engineering

Do you geek out on modern cloud data storage and transport technologies? Do you dream in terms of frameworks that help standardize developer experiences? We are looking for candidates who share our passion for tackling cloud software challenges head-on, to help build an enterprise platform that will scale with our customers’ feature and data needs.

As a Technical Product Manager, Data Engineering at Ridgeline, you will be responsible as the technical, product-minded leader for our Persistence, Data Delivery or Data Platform technologies. Our customers entrust Ridgeline with critical business data and our platform technologies ensure that that data is secured, scales and is efficient to access by other engineering teams across our product offering at Ridgeline. You’ll collaborate with Architecture, other Product Managers, development teams, designers, QA and leadership to plan and create end-to-end solutions for a fast-growing software startup in the financial technology industry. This role is based in one of our Lake Tahoe, Reno, San Ramon or NYC offices.

What will you do?

• Provide strong user-centric thinking, technical understanding and execution excellence to major initiatives and core features, resulting in a performant and reliable data infrastructure, promoting long-term sustainability and stability over short term gains

• Deliver strategic product and technology roadmaps and coordinate the product development process through analysis, discovery, design, validation, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation phases, ensuring on-time delivery while communicating and partnering with technology peers

• Evangelize the roadmap and technology vision and communicate the value to both internal and external stakeholders

• Curate use cases for full stack software engineers and ensure sufficient detail, success criteria, goals and performance objectives are accurate and clearly articulated

• Partner with QA on test plans and ensure quality measures are met

• Partner with design to create and build cohesive and beautiful experiences

• Contribute to a cross-functional, collaborative environment deeply rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency

• Assess resource allocation needs across multiple projects

• Stay informed on financial domain and technology trends to inform product and technology decisions

• Foster a productive, engaging, supportive culture of excellence as Ridgeline grows

• Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions, and communicate clearly along the way

• Contribute to a collaborative environment rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, systems engineering, computer engineering, or other related engineering discipline

• 2+ years of product management experience on technical products involving data infrastructure, directly owning a product roadmap

• 3+ years of software engineering or other related technical development experience

• Strong practical SQL knowledge and experience 

• Experience with AWS Data technologies (RDS, S3, Elasticache)

• Experience working with agile development methodologies

• Experience across all phases of the software development lifecycle

• Ability to partner effectively with colleagues from Product, Engineering, Design, QA, PMO, and DevOps

• Strong communication skills and ability to build constructive technology relationships

• An aptitude for problem solving

• Ability to communicate effectively

• Serious interest in having fun at work

Nice to haves:

• Experience building platforms or reusable components

• Enterprise software experience working within SLAs and SOC2 compliance

• Testing process and methodology experience with automated CI/CD testing, platform testing, and test driven development

• Long-term interest in developing highly functional teams, organizational processes and tools

• Comfortable working with Slack, JIRA/Confluence, AWS, Google Apps and Github

• Experience with investment management technology use cases

About Ridgeline

Ridgeline is the industry cloud platform for investment management. It was founded in 2017 by visionary entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday) to address the unique technology challenges of an industry in need of new thinking. We are building a modern platform in th