Technical Product Manager, Developer Experience
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Job Description
Role Overview
As the Technical Product Manager supporting Developer Experience within Engineering Platform, you will be responsible for helping to modernize our technology platforms that help make our developers more efficient and scale our engineering teams. You will create vision, drive requirements, the roadmap, and support the team by propelling critical initiatives that will fuel our ability to innovate, move quickly, and stay ahead of the competition. That will start with driving completion and adoption of our authorization service initiative, drive the requirements and associated initiative for a new jobs framework, and support acceleration of engineering teams adopting self-service AWS capabilities. You will also be part of a team of technical product managers who collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to deliver products and systems that directly impact the success of the entire engineering organization.
What you’ll do
- Build a strong partnership with the Engineering Platform teams to support their service-oriented position within the organization.
- Gain a deep understanding of our platform, infrastructure technology, development challenges, and the unique challenges we face as a rapidly growing company.
- Co-own the team’s vision and roadmap; generate buy-in and facilitate cross-functional collaboration with a wide range of technical stakeholders.
- Ensure that prioritization of work aligns with high-level strategies and business objectives.
- Maintain high levels of engagement with stakeholders through various forms of written and verbal communication, including roadmaps, project plans, status reports, and executive presentations.
What you’ll Bring
- 4+ years of product management experience, including working with engineering teams. Prior engineering background is a plus.
- An understanding of ephemeral environments including Kubernetes.
- A passion for improving the developer experience through platform offering that focus on developer workflows, environments, and build & delivery processes
- Experience gathering requirements from customers while filtering into strategic direction.
- Strong judgment to prioritize various incoming and generated requirements based on value-add to the organization.
- Strong team player with high emotional intelligence and the ability to bring people together across varying personality types and work styles
- Tenacious self-starter with the ability to work independently, particularly in a highly cross-functional or matrixed environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A drive to advocate for adoption of frameworks, tooling, and environments being built out by the centralized team.
- The capability to Influence platform transformations by working closely with critical stakeholders.
Role Overview
As the Technical Product Manager supporting Developer Experience within Engineering Platform, you will be responsible for helping to modernize our technology platforms that help make our developers more efficient and scale our engineering teams. You will create vision, drive requirements, the roadmap, and support the team by propelling critical initiatives that will fuel our ability to innovate, move quickly, and stay ahead of the competition. That will start with driving completion and adoption of our authorization service initiative, drive the requirements and associated initiative for a new jobs framework, and support acceleration of engineering teams adopting self-service AWS capabilities. You will also be part of a team of technical product managers who collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to deliver products and systems that directly impact the success of the entire engineering organization.
What you’ll do
- Build a strong partnership with the Engineering Platform teams to support their service-oriented position within the organization.
- Gain a deep understanding of our platform, infrastructure technology, development challenges, and the unique challenges we face as a rapidly growing company.
- Co-own the team’s vision and roadmap; generate buy-in and facilitate cross-functional collaboration with a wide range of technical stakeholders.
- Ensure that prioritization of work aligns with high-level strategies and business objectives.
- Maintain high levels of engagement with stakeholders through various forms of written and verbal communication, including roadmaps, project plans, status reports, and executive presentations.
What you’ll Bring
- 4+ years of product management experience, including working with engineering teams. Prior engineering background is a plus.
- An understanding of ephemeral environments including Kubernetes.
- A passion for improving the developer experience through platform offering that focus on developer workflows, environments, and build & delivery processes
- Experience gathering requirements from customers while filtering into strategic direction.
- Strong judgment to prioritize various incoming and generated requirements based on value-add to the organization.
- Strong team player with high emotional intelligence and the ability to bring people together across varying personality types and work styles
- Tenacious self-starter with the ability to work independently, particularly in a highly cross-functional or matrixed environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A drive to advocate for adoption of frameworks, tooling, and environments being built out by the centralized team.
- The capability to Influence platform transformations by working closely with critical stakeholders.
