Product Management Manager

We are looking for a Product Management Manager (L5) is an emerging people leader and delivery-focused product strategist responsible for driving product vision, backlog execution, customer value realization, and cross-functional alignment. With 5–8 years of experience, this role manages one primary product team and delivers outcomes through structured roadmapping, discovery, and iterative execution.

You will translate business objectives into actionable product requirements, prioritize competing demands, guide Agile delivery teams, and ensure product readiness across engineering, design, QA, and customer-facing groups. This role blends strategic planning with hands-on product ownership, ensuring that what we build truly moves the needle for clients and end users.

Core Responsibilities:

• Define product vision and translate business objectives into clear, actionable roadmaps and increments.

• Own backlog management, prioritization frameworks, dependency mapping, and cross-team alignment.

• Lead end-to-end product development for a specific product or module, including discovery, requirements, acceptance criteria, and value tracking.

• Drive Agile rituals with engineering managers, technical leads, TPMs, designers, and QA to ensure predictable delivery.

• Work closely with Solution Architecture to validate technical feasibility, sequence complex work, and remove delivery blockers.

• Partner with Growth and Client Delivery teams to shape statements of work, discovery findings, estimates, and outcome definitions.

• Measure business impact using KPIs, adoption metrics, customer feedback, and delivery health indicators.

• Prepare executive-ready reporting on roadmap progress, risks, opportunities, and product performance.

• Foster strong relationships with customers, internal stakeholders, and cross-functional partners to ensure feedback loops and alignment.

• Mentor associate-level product owners and uplift team product practices, documentation quality, and decision rigor.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• 5–8 years of experience in product management, technical product ownership, or software delivery roles.

• Demonstrated ownership of at least one product or major feature area with measurable customer and business impact.

• Strong proficiency in defining epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria.

• Experience collaborating with engineering teams on technical designs, architecture trade-offs, and sequencing.

• Familiarity with Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, iterative delivery, and continuous discovery.

• Ability to create structured product documentation including PRDs, roadmaps, sequencing plans, and value hypotheses.

• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills with ability to simplify complexity.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

• Advanced English level (written and spoken) to communicate effectively across global teams.

Preferred experience:

• Experience in software consulting, enterprise SaaS, or regulated industries (Life Sciences, healthcare, medical devices, manufacturing).

• Exposure to AI/ML-enabled product development, data products, or agentic systems.

• Experience participating in pre-sales cycles, requirements workshops, and SOW shaping.

• Familiarity with enterprise UX patterns, service design, and user research practices.

• Certifications related to product or Agile delivery (CSPO, APM, ICP, or similar).

Technical skills

Software and product leaders at this level are expected to demonstrate familiarity with one or more tools and frameworks in each of the following categories:

• Product & Delivery Tooling

  • Jira, Azure Boards, ClickUp, or equivalent backlog tools

  • Confluence, Notion, or structured documentation platforms

  • Aha! Roadmaps, Productboard, or other product-planning systems

  • OKR tracking tools and delivery dashboards

• Data & Analytics

  • KPI design and product analytics (Mixpanel, Amplitude, GA4)

  • Basic SQL and data exploration for product insights

  • Experiment design, A/B testing fundamentals

• Technical & Platform Familiarity

  • REST APIs and event-driven patterns

  • Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern SaaS integrations

  • CI/CD awareness and engineering workflow patterns

  • Kubernetes/K3s environments and microservices concepts

• AI/ML & Agentic Development (Awareness Level)

  • LLM-assisted products, embeddings, vector search basics

  • Capabilities and limitations of modern AI/LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI)

  • Prompting fundamentals, guardrail concepts, and evaluation frameworks

Soft Skills

• Strong communication skills with ability to translate between business and technical domains.

• Structured thinking and analytical decision-making.

• Ability to create alignment among stakeholders with competing priorities.

• Leadership presence and willingness to own outcomes end-to-end.

• Mentorship mindset with ability to uplift junior product professionals.

• Adaptability and resilience in fast-changing, ambiguous problem spaces.

Organizational Competencies

• Remote Collaboration: Works effectively in distributed teams using asynchronous communication.

• Continuous Learning: Actively explores new models, frameworks, and safety techniques.

• Cultural Fit: Embodies Veritas Automata’s values of innovation, integrity, and ownership.

• Strategic Impact: Contributes reusable AI building blocks that accelerate future product delivery.

Additional Information

Workplace Conditions and Physical Expectations

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.

• Must access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities.

• Occasional travel to the client’s site may be required.