Technical Product Manager

Quick Facts

• Role: Technical Product Manager (Remote)

• Focus: TV Everywhere (TVE) backend platform

• Schedule: Monday–Friday, standard business hours

Description

Own and manage the product roadmap, backlog, release plan, and measurable outcomes for the TVE backend platform. Translate business, editorial, architecture, and engineering needs into product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and phased release plans. Partner with engineering and architecture to define system behavior, API and data contracts, dependencies, and ownership boundaries, and lead migrations, cutover, and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage the backend platform product roadmap and backlog

• Create release plans and measurable outcomes

• Convert cross-functional needs into testable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria

• Define system behavior, API/data contracts, dependencies, and ownership boundaries with engineering/architecture

• Coordinate delivery across backend teams, front-end application teams, and external partners

• Lead migration, cutover, and operational readiness planning (rollback, monitoring, runbooks, launch criteria)

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager, Platform Product Manager, or similar

• Experience working with engineers/architects on APIs, services, integrations, data flows, cloud environments, and system architecture

• Ability to turn ambiguous cross-functional needs into testable requirements, dependency maps, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans

• Strong understanding of platform reliability, observability, security, privacy, performance, scalability, and operational support

• Experience managing vendor-delivered capabilities and separating vendor responsibility from internal ownership

• Experience planning complex migrations/platform transitions, including parallel runs, data migration, cutover, rollback, and decommissioning

• Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining tradeoffs, risks, and decisions

• Ability to work across multiple teams/workstreams while maintaining a system-level view of priorities and dependencies

Benefits

• Remote work

• Monday–Friday schedule with standard business hours