Senior Technical Product Manager

Auto IT; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career progression

Profit Sharing

Performance Bonuses

Hybrid working and work from home

Training and mentoring

Job summary

A leading software company in Victoria seeks a Senior Product Technology Manager. This role focuses on bridging product vision with technical execution while leading development teams through modernisation and technical improvements. Candidates should have 7+ years of software development experience, including leadership roles, and a strong understanding of enterprise applications. This position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for career progression.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Strong background in enterprise application development.
• Experience leading modernisation or migration projects.

Responsibilities

• Bridge product vision and technical execution.
• Lead development teams through modernization efforts.
• Define and communicate technical direction for the product portfolio.

Skills

Software development

Leadership

Enterprise application development

Agile practices

Web services

Database design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

.NET

SQL

PowerBuilder

Job description

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Base pay range

A$170,000.00/yr - A$175,000.00/yr

About Us

Based in Australia, with teams in New Zealand, Malaysia and Thailand, we are a successful software company that specialises in the development and marketing of dealer management systems that operate retail dealerships in the automotive, trucking, agriculture and construction equipment industries. Over the last 35 years, we have brought a number of industry-leading dealer management systems to market. Our next generation solutions help our clients run their dealerships more effectively, efficiently and profitably.

Auto IT is wholly owned by The Perseus Group, an operating group of Constellation Software Inc. Constellation is a well-capitalised, publicly traded company that specialises in vertical market software. It's an exciting time for our business, and with offices globally, we offer career progression and professional development as part of a team dedicated to supporting our clients across the Asia Pacific region.

About the Role

The Senior Product Technology Manager is responsible for bridging product vision and technical execution. This role ensures that technology decisions directly support product strategy, customer value, and business goals.

In this role, you will lead our development teams through modernisation efforts, technical improvements, and product feature delivery, while fostering strong collaboration between product management, engineering, and customer-facing teams, providing leadership and mentorship to senior developers, architects, and technical leads, ensuring consistency in engineering practices, code quality, and development standards, and building a culture of accountability, collaboration, and pragmatic innovation.

As a key advocate for the customer, you will have the skills to translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions that deliver measurable value, define and communicate technical direction for the product portfolio, balancing modernisation, technical debt reduction, and new feature development as well as drive continuous improvement in product performance, scalability, and maintainability.

What You Need to Have

• 7+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Strong background in enterprise application development (.NET, SQL, PowerBuilder, or similar).
• Experience leading modernisation or migration projects (e.g., desktop to cloud, database transitions).
• Prior experience in the planning and execution of development work, ensuring on-time and high-quality delivery.
• Track record in introducing and refining agile practices
• Exposure to XML, Web services, SOAP/REST etc.
• Web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, and enterprise application architecture
• Principles of database design
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

What We Offer You

• Career progression as part of a large global company.
• A competitive salary and the opportunity to make a significant leadership impact.
• A competitive salary, plus the ability to earn Profit Sharing and Performance Bonuses.
• Flexibility, including hybrid working and working from home.
• Training, mentoring and support

Next Steps

If you meet the above criteria and would like the opportunity to be part of a hardworking, fun team, then please submit your application with a covering letter as to the reasons why you would be a valuable addition to the team.

Successful applicants will be required to undergo relevant pre-employment checks including a police check before employment is confirmed.

We also support a diverse and inclusive work environment as well as equal employment opportunities. We encourage Neurodiverse candidates, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and people of culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology and Product Management

• Industries

  Software Development

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