Technical Product Manager

About Forterra

Forterra is a leading provider of autonomous systems for ground-based movement in the working world. Amongst some of the earliest innovators in the field of driverless technology, Forterra is focused on building systems that protect front-line soldiers and enable civilian workers in our industrial base. Forterra is the go-to provider of ground autonomy solutions for the U.S. Department of Defense, which harnesses the technology for asymmetric warfare in critical conditions.

About The Role

About the Role

Our autonomous vehicle (AV) platform is delivering real value to real customers today—and data is at the heart of how we measure, improve, and extend that value. As a Product team, our mission is to ensure we’re building the right things, in the right order, to the right scope. Technical Product Managers (TPMs) play a critical role in translating the broader product vision into actionable roadmaps and high-quality execution within their domains. TPMs are embedded with engineering teams and help ensure their team’s work aligns with real user needs, technical constraints, and company priorities.

You’ll shape the roadmap for your part of the product, guide priorities, and make sure engineering is focused on delivering the right value at the right time. This role requires a seasoned TPM who can operate at multiple levels—zooming out to understand customer goals and roadmap alignment, and zooming in to clarify requirements, review designs, or assess results of our product in the field.

As a TPM on the Data team, you’ll guide the development of tools and pipelines that make Forterra’s data accessible, trustworthy, and actionable—enabling everything from engineering decisions to customer insights and revenue-generating training sets.

TPMs are accountable for clarity, progress, and impact. You’ll own your team’s backlog, help define the success metrics, and ensure cross-functional stakeholders are aligned along the way. You must be proactive, detail-oriented, and fluent in both product thinking and technical execution.


What You'll Do

• Own the Roadmap for Your Area: Define the customer, value, and success metrics for your part of the product. Make sure the work being done is the best way to deliver that value.
• Drive Alignment: Create user journeys, diagrams, and other artifacts to clarify priorities and align stakeholders internal and external to your team.
• Shape Execution: Translate ambiguous goals into clear, prioritized work. Write detailed feature descriptions and acceptance criteria that enable execution.
• Prioritize Ruthlessly: Intake and triage product improvements. Balance customer impact, technical effort, and business needs in prioritizing your backlog.
• Communicate Proactively: Keep engineering, product leadership, growth, and other stakeholders informed. Share progress, flag issues, and raise tradeoffs early.
• Measure Progress and Value: Define KPIs, evaluate work against roadmap goals, and ensure your team is maximizing impact.
• Validate Delivery: Work closely with engineering to ensure what’s built meets the intended scope and quality. Accept completed work based on clear criteria.
• Support Agile Rhythm: As a Product Owner, partner with Scrum Masters to shape sprint goals and contribute to sprint reviews.
• Escalate When Needed: Raise scope or timeline risks to Product Leadership to support decision-making.
• Champion Your Team: Evangelize successes and ensure the value your team delivers is visible across the organization.

Qualifications

• Mission-Driven and Customer-Focused: You put the mission