Hybrid Technical Product Manager

Posted 2 months ago

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About the role

  • Technical Product Manager focusing on C3 systems at Forterra, delivering autonomous solutions for the defense sector. Balancing strategic and tactical roles in product management within engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Roadmap for Your Area: Define the customer, value, and success metrics for your product. Make sure the work being done is the best way to deliver that value.
  • Drive Alignment: Create user journeys, diagrams, and other artifacts to clarify priorities and align stakeholders internal and external to your team.
  • Shape Execution: Translate ambiguous goals into clear, prioritized work. Write detailed feature descriptions and acceptance criteria that enable execution.
  • Prioritize Ruthlessly: Intake and triage product improvements. Balance customer impact, technical effort, and business needs in prioritizing your backlog.
  • Communicate Proactively: Keep engineering, product leadership, growth, and other stakeholders informed. Share progress, flag issues, and raise tradeoffs early.
  • Measure Progress and Value: Define KPIs, evaluate work against roadmap goals, and ensure your team is maximizing impact.
  • Validate Delivery: Work closely with engineering to ensure what’s built meets the intended scope and quality. Accept completed work based on clear criteria.
  • Support Agile Rhythm: As a Product Owner, partner with Scrum Masters to shape sprint goals and contribute to sprint reviews.
  • Escalate When Needed: Raise scope or timeline risks to Product Leadership to support decision-making.
  • Champion Your Team: Evangelize successes and ensure the value your team delivers is visible across the organization.

Requirements

  • 5–8+ years of technical product management experience, ideally in command and control of autonomous systems.
  • Bachelor’s in related field or equivalent experience.
  • You’re comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels— able to align with business goals and get specific with technical teams.
  • Strong product instincts —able to connect field needs and platform constraints to tactical engineering priorities.
  • Experience building distributed C2 frontend and backend services, including intuitive user experiences, multi-tenant architectures, RBAC/Zero Trust controls, and real-time pub/sub messaging.
  • You’re technical enough to earn the trust of engineers, hold your own in brainstorming sessions, and ensure feasibility.
  • Deep familiarity with product development in systems with high performance, latency, and robustness requirements.
  • You communicate clearly across roles—from engineers to executives—and thrive in cross-functional environments.
  • You’re rigorous about execution and care deeply that what's being built works for the user in the real world.

Benefits

  • Premium Healthcare Benefits: Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
  • Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
  • Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December.
  • Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
  • A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption.
  • A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
  • Fully stocked beverage refrigerators with all the Celsius your little heart desires.
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.

Job title

Technical Product Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$150,000 - $190,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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