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%

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 but not limited to job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity.

About the company

At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result—for our clients and you. Here, we go beyond your expectations of a career in professional services by offering a career path with more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support. It’s what makes us different, and we think being different makes us better.

In the U.S., Grant Thornton delivers professional services through two specialized entities: Grant Thornton LLP, a licensed, certified public accounting (CPA) firm that provides audit and assurance services—and Grant Thornton Advisors LLC (not a licensed CPA firm), which exclusively provides non-attest offerings, including tax and advisory services. In 2025, Grant Thornton formed a multinational, multidisciplinary platform with Grant Thornton Ireland. The platform offers a premier Trans-Atlantic advisory and tax practice, as well as independent American and Irish audit practices. With $2.7 billion in revenues and more than 50 offices spanning the U.S., Ireland, and other territories, the platform delivers a singular client experience that includes enhanced solutions and capabilities, backed by powerful technologies and a roster of 12,000 quality-driven professionals enjoying exceptional career-growth opportunities and a distinctive cross-border culture. Grant Thornton is part of the Grant Thornton International Limited network, which provides access to its member firms in more than 150 global markets.

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. We understand that your needs, responsibilities, and experiences are different—and we think that’s a good thing.

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, please visit: https://www.grantthornton.com/careers/rewards-and-benefits.