Technical Product Manager

Keller Schroeder is seeking a Technical Product Manager for a 6-month contract role that is hybrid based in Baltimore, MD. The TPM will be responsible for modernizing core services and translating complex systems into actionable improvements while partnering with engineering and product leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Roadmap Ownership: Work closely with the lead product manager to understand strategic goals, and own prioritization and tradeoffs for the cross-team technical roadmap in alignment with product and engineering leadership, ensuring higher-priority work is clearly defined, ready, and sequenced for focused delivery
• Dependency Management & Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify, track, and manage cross-team dependencies to ensure teams can deliver sprint outcomes on time. Where dependencies exist, surface trade-offs with recommendations and reshape work or sequencing to enable independent delivery
• Technical Requirement Refinement: Partner with Engineering Managers and Tech Leads to shape and document technical requirements, ensuring clarity of outcomes and constraints, capturing architectural decisions and trade-offs, ensuring alignment with product outcomes and cross-team contracts
• Work Decomposition and Scope Discipline: Decompose work into clear, outcome-oriented increments that can be completed within a single sprint and deliver observable value, with a focus on delivering the minimum necessary to achieve measurable business outcomes
• Product Advocate: Serve as the product advocate for initiatives, articulating the business drivers and implications to technical stakeholders and technical considerations to non-technical stakeholders

Requirements:

• More than 4 years' experience as a Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, Technical Program Manager or supported similar responsibilities as a Developer or Business Analyst
• Technical Fluency: Ability to understand system architecture, data pipelines, microservices, contract design, and engage effectively in technical discussions without owning implementation decisions. While not required to code, you must be able to discuss technical trade-offs with engineers
• Dependency Mapping: Proven ability to manage dependencies in complex, multi-team environments using tools like Jira, Confluence, or similar
• Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical constraints and business impact
• Experience in the financial industry
• Background in software engineering or systems architecture
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Familiarity with containerization and cloud infrastructure
• Experience in architecture modernization projects and iterative greenfield development