Senior Technical Product Manager

A tech scale-up with big plans!

Founded in 2017, Lokalise has hired 250+ people across 47 countries (and counting!), raised $50m of series B funding, and brought on-board customers such as Revolut, Miro, Starbucks, and Mastercard to name but a few.

Not bad, eh?

What we do

Businesses like Hyundai use our localisation platform to bring developers, designers and translators together in one virtual workspace. They use our platform to translate and localise content so it can be delivered across the web, apps, documents and even games to customers in their native languages.

Simply put: companies that localize can connect with over 8 billion people on the planet. 

About the role

As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you will work with your engineering counterpart, leading our Frontend & Backend Foundations product teams. You will deliver tools such as components, services, and libraries to other teams in the organization, to create consistency while increasing their development velocity and ensuring the highest quality standards.

About you

You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment with a high level of ambiguity and can make trade-off calls when working with competing priorities. You are innovative and have a strong sense of ownership. You are data driven and base your decisions on facts rather than opinions. You have a strong preference for action and are willing to be hands-on regarding details. The ability to influence, analytical skills, and leadership are essential traits for succeeding in this role.

Your responsibilities

• Taking full end-to-end responsibility for your product
• Establishing a long-term vision and prioritized roadmap, and delivering on them
• Acting as the bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring that the solutions address the long-term needs of the business
• Defining key business goals, KPIs, and success metrics, tracking them, and improving upon them
• Regularly liaising with your stakeholders to understand their pain points and needs
• Delivering great products flawlessly while raising the bar on quality, functionality, and usability
• Actively coaching and mentoring other team members and direct reports
• Ensuring alignment across departments and teams

Required skills

• 5+ years of technical product management experience
• Profound technical knowledge, ideally with experience of microservices, cloud platforms (such as AWS), and complex systems
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and quantify their business impacts
• Problem solving with the ability to identify and evaluate complex issues and develop clear approaches to solving them, with a high level of user empathy
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with various levels of stakeholders, from senior leadership to individual members
• Team player abilities with strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Experience with managing and coaching different levels of product managers
• Strong organizational and dependency management skills, ensuring that projects are completed in an appropriate and timely manner

Other beneficial skills

• Education in a technology or business-related field
• Software engineering background
• Experience with database design or distributed design architecture
• Good understanding of container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

Our offer

• Competitive salary and employee stock options plan
• Learning & Development program
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Health insurance
• Wellness benefits
• Comprehensive parental leave
• Co-working budget

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We believe that to create a work environment where all people can truly thrive, we must create a safe space in which to challenge and learn.

We are committed to a culture of inclusion and equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, relationship, marital, or civil partnership statuses, racial identities, national or ethnic origins, religious beliefs, ages, and disability statuses.

We want to make sure you have the most positive experience possible as an applicant, and make our recruitment process inclusive, so please let us know in advance if we should make any adjustments to accommodate you.