Lead Technology Product Manager

Role Overview: As a Lead Technology Product Manager (IC) with 10 to 16 years of experience, your main responsibility will be to independently drive the execution of complex, cross-functional technology product initiatives. You will be taking charge from discovery through delivery, adoption, and lifecycle optimization. In this role, you will operate with significant autonomy, lead through influence (not authority), and serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders across Engineering, UX, Architecture, Data, Marketing, Sales, and Business teams. Your focus will be on owning the end-to-end product roadmap execution, translating strategic business objectives into customer-valued outcomes, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, secure, and reliable capabilities. Key Responsibilities: - Lead the development, enhancement, and optimization of product features across the full product lifecycle. - Own and continuously refine the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives and stakeholder expectations. - Partner closely with Engineering, UX, Architecture, Data, and business stakeholders to deliver customer-centric, technically sound solutions. - Gather and document requirements, define epics and features, write high-quality user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritize backlogs to maximize customer and business value. - Work daily with agile delivery teams as a Product Owner when needed, ensuring backlog readiness and successful sprint outcomes. - Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and product usage analysis to identify opportunities for differentiation, improvement, and innovation. - Drive user experience and interface design improvements, incorporating UX best practices and customer feedback. - Establish clear success metrics, KPIs, and reporting mechanisms to enable data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement. - Monitor product performance, reliability, scalability, and operational readiness; proactively identify risks and initiate improvement initiatives. - Lead cross-team alignment and dependency management, facilitating timely decisions, tradeoffs, and prioritization without formal authority. - Lead and analyze beta testing and customer validation efforts to inform product direction and readiness. - Incorporate customer feedback and operational signals into ongoing product enhancements. - Support go-to-market activities, including product documentation, release notes, and enablement for marketing, sales, and other stakeholders. Qualifications: Must have: - Bachelors degree, preferably in Engineering, Technology, Computer Science, or similar program. - 10+ years of experience working across SDLC and delivering customer-facing technology products (cloud/SaaS preferred). - Minimum 7 years experience as an independent Product Manager / Technical Product Manager / Product Owner owning backlog and delivery outcomes along with product strategy. - Proven expertise in product management including requirements definition, prioritization, stakeholder collaboration, and negotiation. - Strong strategic thinking: ability to understand business context, evaluate trade-offs, and translate into execution plans. - Strong analytical, critical thinking, and communication skills, including the ability to interpret complex data to inform decisions. - Deep customer empathy with the ability to understand end-to-end scenarios and define measurable success criteria. - Excellent writing and verbal communication skills; able to produce clear product narratives and decision documents. - Strong attention to detail, organization, and execution discipline across multiple workstreams. - Skilled in negotiating priorities with business and technical stakeholders; able to lead through influence. - Proficiency with Visio or similar tools for system diagrams, workflows, and process mapping. Nice to have: - SAFe PM/PO, CSPO, or PSPO certification. - Experience with platform integrations, identity/authentication concepts, security/compliance considerations, and enterprise SaaS patterns. - Exposure to AI-enabled user experiences and data-driven automation initiatives. - Experience with mobile-responsive design principles and managing mobile-first or mobile-optimized product strategies. Role Overview: As a Lead Technology Product Manager (IC) with 10 to 16 years of experience, your main responsibility will be to independently drive the execution of complex, cross-functional technology product initiatives. You will be taking charge from discovery through delivery, adoption, and lifecycle optimization. In this role, you will operate with significant autonomy, lead through influence (not authority), and serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders across Engineering, UX, Architecture, Data, Marketing, Sales, and Business teams. Your focus will be on owning the end-to-end product roadmap execution, translating strategic business objectives into customer-valued outcomes, and ensuring the deli