Product Development Manager

Role overview Turn technical roadmap priorities into coordinated, executable work across engineering teams. This role connects business stakeholders, technical leadership, delivery teams, and QA: clarifying requirements, accounting for system architecture and dependencies, and helping move planned work through release.

Responsibilities - Break roadmap goals into epics, workstreams, and sequenced tasks that engineering teams can deliver. - Gather stakeholder needs and translate them into user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical specifications. - Track dependencies, risks, delivery progress, and trade-offs; coordinate with engineering leads to address blockers. - Maintain awareness of systems and architecture across teams, identifying opportunities to reuse existing services and components. - Coordinate backlog and implementation details with delivery leads and Scrum Masters, and support post-release issue prioritization with engineering and QA. - Keep technical documentation and decisions traceable, and communicate progress to audiences ranging from developers to senior leaders.

Requirements - Practical development or technical analysis experience sufficient to read code and discuss system design with engineers. - Ability to interpret architecture and sequence diagrams, data models, and API contracts, and recognize reuse opportunities. - Experience translating roadmap priorities into sequenced technical work and writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and specifications. - Working knowledge of software development lifecycles, Agile or Scrum practices, and backlog tools such as Jira or Confluence. - Understanding of APIs, integrations, and the fundamentals of cloud architecture and databases. - Strong written and spoken English, with experience coordinating across teams, including remote or distributed teams. - A degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have - Certified Scrum Product Owner or a similar certification. - Experience with authentication systems, content harvesting, or email and notification platforms.