Technical Product Manager

Summary

Ready.net is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Technical Product Manager to join their fast-paced and innovative team. The role involves shaping the product direction by bridging technical development and business objectives, while ensuring successful product development through collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate a clear product vision that aligns with business goals and market demands
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive product roadmap that outlines key milestones, timelines, and dependencies
• Continuously assess and adjust the roadmap to adapt to changing market conditions and customer feedback
• Leverage your technical background to deeply understand the complexities of our products, including architecture, development processes, and technical constraints
• Engage actively with engineering teams to evaluate technical feasibility and tradeoffs for proposed product features
• Translate technical constraints and engineering considerations into product decisions that stakeholders can understand and act on
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, sales, marketing, and implementation teams, to ensure successful product development and delivery
• Act as a bridge between technical teams and stakeholders, effectively translating business needs into technical requirements
• Define clear and detailed product requirements, including user stories, use cases, and technical specifications
• Prioritize feature development based on customer feedback, market research, and business objectives
• Scope and evaluate AI-powered capabilities within our products; identify where AI can offer genuine user value and deliver product experiences that deliver that value in a dependable and transparent manner
• Exhibit exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, to convey complex technical concepts in a clear and understandable manner
• Contribute to continuous improvement of our communication patterns and collaborative systems within the product team and across the organization
• Leverage AI tools for writing, analysis, and prototyping to produce shared sources of truth, synthesized insights, and perform more effective discovery
• Champion a user-centric approach to product development, ensuring that user needs and feedback drive product decisions
• Conduct user research and gather insights to inform product enhancements
• Engage directly with key customers to gather feedback, understand pain points, and identify opportunities for product improvements
• Build strong customer relationships to enhance our understanding of their evolving needs

Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent experience
• Proven experience as a Technical Product Manager, ideally at the mid to senior level
• Strong technical background, with a deep understanding of software development processes and technologies
• Prior background in software engineering, or hands-on experience with data modeling or technical requirements gathering is a significant plus
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong leadership and teamwork abilities
• Comfort working alongside engineering teams to understand architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs
• Experience leveraging AI tools to improve personal productivity and the quality of your work outputs
• Prior experience in a fast-paced, dynamic environment is preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent experience
• Proven experience as a Technical Product Manager, ideally at the mid to senior level
• Strong technical background, with a deep understanding of software development processes and technologies
• Prior background in software engineering, or hands-on experience with data modeling or technical requirements gathering is a significant plus
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong leadership and teamwork abilities
• Comfort working alongside engineering teams to understand architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs
• Experience leveraging AI tools to improve personal productivity and the quality of your work outputs

Nice to Haves

• Prior experience in a fast-paced, dynamic environment is preferred

Benefits

• Competitive (and ever expanding) benefits for employees and dependents
• 100% remote work from home
• Opportunities to learn and grow – all things startups
• We all convene 1-2x a year for [optional, encouraged] retreats
• We’re actively shaping our benefits program: have a say in which benefits matter to you
• Work from (almost) anywhere. Ready is a remote-first company, but for security and compliance reasons, employees are not permitted to work from China (excluding Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan), Russia, Iran, or North Korea.