Product Technology M&A Manager

About the role

As a Product Technology Manager, you’ll focus on evaluating software platforms through an integrated commercial, operational, and financial lens. The team provides investment-grade insights that tie product architecture and roadmap credibility directly to valuation, growth, and margin sustainability. Lead Product Technology Diligence engagements for Private Equity and strategic clients, assessing software platforms across technical architecture, product strategy, operational scalability, and financial sustainability. This role requires the ability to tie commercial, operational, and financial performance of a software platform directly to its technology architecture and roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Analyze application architecture and scalability
• Review cloud infrastructure and cost structure
• Assess product modularity and extensibility
• Analyze technical debt and refactoring risk
• Review SDLC processes and engineering metrics
• Support analysis of hosting cost models and R&D cost allocation
• Assist in assessing roadmap investment requirements
• Link technical findings to growth scalability and margin implications
• Support development of investment-grade red flag reports
• Evaluate engineering productivity
• Assess product governance
• Identify operational inefficiencies impacting roadmap delivery

Requirements

• 6–9 years in software engineering leadership, architecture consulting, product strategy advisory, or tech diligence
• Experience in SaaS, marketplace, fintech, vertical software, or platform environments
• Strong understanding of cloud cost structures and DevOps environments
• Strong analytical capability
• Commercial awareness
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Ability to operate in transaction-speed environments
• Ability to travel up to 50%

About the team

The team you’re about to join is ready to help you thrive. Whether it's your work location, weekly schedule, or flex time off, we empower you with the options to work the way that best serves your clients and your life. Consistent with the firm's hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site. Here, you are supported to prioritize your overall well-being through work-life integration options that work best for you and those in your household.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is between $182,144 and $227,643. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity.

Benefits

We support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles, and aspirations that make you, well, you. For an overview of our benefit offerings, visit Grant Thornton’s rewards and benefits page.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance programs
• Employee assistance program
• Paid sick leave (minimum of 72 hours)
• Paid firm holidays
• Eligibility to participate in the firm’s 401(k) savings plan and employee retirement plan (seasonal employees, subject to plan terms)
• Discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance (employees only, subject to eligibility criteria)