Product Manager, Technical Platform Engineering

About the role

At PitchBook, a Morningstar company, we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate, evolve, and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. We’re deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement, energy, and fun that reverberates throughout the company.

If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, PitchBook is the place for you.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap for the Platform Engineering domain, including internal developer platforms, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling used by every product team at PitchBook
• Partner closely with Platform Engineering managers and staff engineers to translate strategy into requirements, priorities, and milestones, ensuring fast and reliable delivery
• Lead discovery efforts to understand the workflows of engineers, product managers, designers, and other roles in the product delivery lifecycle, translating pain points into high-impact product initiatives
• Define and operate the success metrics for the platform — developer lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, platform reliability, adoption, and cloud unit economics — and hold the org accountable to them
• Drive alignment across Engineering, Product, Security, SRE, Legal, and other stakeholders to balance velocity, safety, and scale
• Ensure successful experiments and prototypes are operationalized into reusable, production-grade platform capabilities and golden paths that promote consistency, trust, and ease of adoption
• Own the product side of the AI enabled product delivery experience. Scope and prioritize AI powered features and golden paths across the tooling used by every role in product delivery, in partnership with ML Ops and Platform Engineering
• Translate AI driven productivity opportunities into a credible roadmap with measurable outcomes across product delivery, such as adoption of AI capabilities by each role, lead time, review throughput, incident MTTR, and documentation freshness, rather than activity
• Communicate roadmap, tradeoffs, and progress clearly to engineering, product, and executive audiences; influence Director and VP-level decisions
• Champion responsible, secure, and scalable AI usage across the organization
• Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors
• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field; or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years on technical platforms, developer tools, infrastructure, or internal products
• Strong technical acumen and the ability to engage credibly with platform engineers on complex systems — CI/CD pipelines, internal developer platforms, container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), infrastructure-as-code, and cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP)
• Experience defining and reporting on developer productivity and platform effectiveness metrics (DORA, SPACE, or equivalent)
• Proven ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces and translate them into clear product direction
• Experience prioritizing across competing initiatives using data, user input, and business context
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence Director level stakeholders across technical and non-technical audiences
• Hands-on familiarity with AI/ML systems, including Generative AI and LLM-based workflows; comfortable making build versus buy calls on AI tooling and reporting productivity impact. Working understanding of responsible AI patterns including cost, safety, data handling, and governance, sufficient to set product standards across teams

Benefits + Compensation at PitchBook

• Physical Health: Comprehensive health benefits, additional medical wellness incentives, STD, LTD, AD&D, and life insurance
• Emotional Health: Paid sabbatical program after four years, paid family and paternity leave, annual educational stipend, ability to apply for tuition reimbursement, CFA exam stipend, robust training programs on industry and soft skills, employee assistance program, generous allotment of vacation days, sick days, and volunteer days
• Social Health: Matching gifts program, employee resource groups, subsidized emergency childcare, dependent Care FSA, company-wide events, employee referral bonus program, quarterly team building events
• Financial Health: 401k match, shared ownership employee stock program, monthly transportation stipend

Compensation

Annual base salary: $140,000-$175,000
Target annual bonus percentage: 10%

Working Conditions

The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an ongoing basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.