Technical Product Manager - Mobility Platform

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary product liaison to stakeholders, managing ongoing communication across multiple concurrent priorities and initiatives.
• Navigate complex stakeholder conversations to reconcile competing priorities, evolving requirements, and release constraints.
• Proactively identify gaps between documented specifications and requested functionality, and drive alignment before development begins.
• Negotiate the release scope with stakeholders, ensuring realistic commitments that align with engineering capacity and delivery timelines.
• Mitigate friction during code transfers by ensuring acceptance criteria and requirements are clearly defined, validated, and agreed upon in advance.
• Provide structured, transparent status reporting and risk escalation to senior stakeholders.

Product Management & Execution

• Own the product roadmap and backlog for assigned products.
• Translate high-level epics into clearly defined, executable epics and user stories.
• Drove requirements refinement by pushing for specificity, edge cases, non-functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Track and manage long-lived epics across multiple releases, ensuring continuity and traceability.
• Ensure alignment between products and other data services where cross-product dependencies exist.
• Maintain backlog health and transparency to ensure development teams have clear priorities and well-defined work.

Quarterly Planning & Roadmap Governance

• Lead quarterly planning cycles in collaboration with stakeholders and engineering leadership.
• Decompose high-level strategic guidance from stakeholders into prioritized, actionable delivery plans.
• Identify risks early when high-level direction lacks sufficient detail and proactively drive clarification.
• Balance short-term release commitments with long-term platform scalability and technical sustainability.

Delivery & Quality Alignment

• Partner with technical delivery leads to:
• Align scope and sequencing.
• Conduct release planning.
• Track execution progress.
• Ensure internal documentation is complete, accurate, and reflects current functionality before code transfer.
• Reduce post-transfer defect cycles by validating requirements completeness prior to handoff.
• Operate effectively in environments experiencing team turnover or schedule pressure, providing structure and clarity to maintain delivery momentum.

Technical Depth & Platform Understanding

• Develop a strong working knowledge of cloud-native systems running in AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Kinesis or equivalent).
• Understand system architecture well enough to:
• Evaluate the feasibility of requests.
• Identify integration risks.
• Assess the impact of scope changes.
• Collaborate closely with developers to ensure solutions align with platform architecture and long-term maintainability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as a Technical Product Manager, Technical Project Manager, or Business Analyst in a software or SaaS environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex stakeholder relationships, particularly in matrixed or global organizations.
• Experience negotiating release scope and aligning cross-functional teams around delivery constraints.
• Proven ability to manage long-lived epics and ambiguous, high-level initiatives.
• AWS platform experience (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Kinesis or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and SaaS delivery models.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; able to articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, SQL, and diagramming tools (Lucidchart / Visio).
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to analyze product and operational data.
• Detail-oriented with strong process discipline and focus on continuous improvement.

Nice to Have

• Experience working with global stakeholders, particularly Japanese counterparts.
• Prior development or DevOps experience.
• Experience in automotive, mobility, or telematics platforms.

Benefits

• 401(k).
• Dental Insurance.
• Health insurance.
• Vision insurance.

About Us

At OP, we help you harness the power of technology for maximum impact. A technology consulting and solutions company, we offer advisory and managed services, innovative platforms, and staffing solutions across a wide range of fields including AI, cyber security, enterprise architecture, and beyond. For nearly two decades, we've been challenging the status quo of the consulting industry, serving up fresh, ingenious thinking through a radically lean structure. Together, this strategy delivers unprecedented performance at an unparalleled pace for faster results that propel your business forward.