Experience with strategic vision and roadmap creation
Ability to interact with development teams and senior leaders
Understanding of technology trends and competitive capabilities
Requirements:
Define strategy and create a roadmap for platform success
Translate internal customer needs into requirements
Monitor platform operations and collaborate with internal technology teams
Provide strategic vision and communicate effectively with internal teams
Job description
Client: Education Services Company Title: Technical Program Manager Location: Remote (PA/NJ/DE/NY) occasional travel to Princeton, NJ Type: 6 month Contract w/ potential extensions
Summary:
A technical product manager (TPM) is a strategic leader with a strong technical background. A TPM is
able to develop a strategic vision, create a roadmap, and define priorities for a capability platform.
A TPM works closely with the engineering team and understands the company's technology at a deep
level. TPMs are able to interact with the development team as well as the most senior leaders in the
organization. They act as the glue between the business side and technical side of an organization.
Strategic Focus
• Defines strategy, creates roadmap for platform and identifies opportunities for success;
assesses technology trends
• Assesses and makes recommendations on which new technologies to invest in or leverage
• Understands competitor technological capabilities and works to create advantage for ETS
Requirements & Prioritization
• Focuses on common platforms needed to support products and capabilities
• Understands internal customer needs and translates them into requirements
• Understands technology trends in the market
• Makes decisions and trade-offs between technology & platform features
Execution (day-to-day)
• Actively influences teams and leadership for common adoption and use of platforms
• Monitors platform operations and progress against roadmap
• Collaborates with internal technology teams like engineering and development
• Understands and analyzes data pipelines, algorithms, and automated systems
• Uses database queries to analyze performance indicators, platform issues, etc.
Communication
• Provides technology strategic vision / roadmap to division leads and governance committees
• Works effectively with internal teams, including developers, engineers, architects, quality, and
operations. Ensures requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans meet
expectations
• Answers incoming questions about the technology capabilities, and serves as a technology
