Senior Technical Product Manager

Veracode; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the security market is seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to drive product strategy and backlog prioritization. This role involves extensive interaction with stakeholders, Agile methodologies, and providing user insights throughout development. Candidates should have a robust technical background, a passion for customer advocacy, and the ability to define effective product management practices.

Benefits

Outstanding Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Wellness benefits

Take What You Need time off policy

Extensive development and training offerings

Generous 401k match

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Product Owner or Technical Product Manager in Agile.
• Experience mentoring other Product Owners and communicating technical features.
• Familiarity with open-source community and ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the voice of the customer and engage in the Agile development process.
• Build feedback loops between Agile teams and stakeholders.
• Define acceptance and success criteria for the product backlog.

Skills

Communication

Analytical Skills

Agile Methodology

Technical Knowledge

User Experience

Mentorship

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

Senior Technical Product Manager

Looking for an innovative, high-growth company in one of the hottest segments of the security market? Look no further than Veracode!

Veracode is recognized as a premier provider of SaaS-based application security solutions, transforming the way companies secure applications in today’s software driven world. We provide our customers with a solid foundation on which to build security into their modern agile development processes. Learn more about us atwww.veracode.com!

We are looking for a Sr. Technical Product Manager who has experience building cloud native applications in an Agile environment. As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you will serve as the voice of the customer and stakeholder proxy to the Engineering team, helping our Agile delivery teams in decomposing Epics and Features into actionable, validated user stories, and engaging deeply in the Agile development process. Working as part of the Product Management team, you will work with internal and external stakeholders to define and prioritize a detailed product backlog, establish story acceptance criteria, drive content via prioritized user stories and obtain customer validation and accept stories. You will work together with other stakeholders to address internal and external workflows of the Veracode solutions, creating a strong user experience.

This position will be supported by a senior member of the Product Management team in fulfilling their responsibilities, and will increasingly work independently as they gain competence, guiding an Agile team to deliver value. While this position will be attentive to the needs of the Agile team, we are looking for a Product Manager who seeks facetime and regular interaction with internal and external stakeholders. This individual should also be familiar with building feedback loops between the Agile team and those stakeholders.

Key Aspects of Role

• Assist in building customer and user insights into all stages of the planning and execution process, ensuring the continuous validation of features and stories with customers and users
• Build feedback loops between the Agile team and various internal and external stakeholders
• Proactively analyze, report, and recommend changes to the product based on data from feedback loops
• Participate in Services and Sales Engineering technical enablement sessions
• Advocate for the customer when making trade-offs or prioritization decisions
• Analyze data to understand how customers are using the product and identify pain points
• Define acceptance criteria and success criteria for the team backlog
• Work closely with senior Product Managers to help realize a product strategy and roadmap
• Define Technical Product Management best practices and standards
• Work with other Product Owners to build a community of practice that incorporates strong Agile and Lean principles
• Demonstrate empathy in communicating and interacting with colleagues, internal stakeholders and customers.
• Understanding and familiarity with Cloud Native and 12 Factor Principles, Microservices, Lean Principles, DevOps, Test Driven Development (TDD), Extreme Programming (XP), Observability / Monitoring

Required Skills:

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or relevant industry experience is required.
• Minimum of three years’ experience as a Product Owner or Technical Product Manager in an Agile environment delivering cloud native applications
• Familiarity with open-source community and ecosystem - developer evangelism is a plus
• Hands-on experience writing and releasing commercial software for developers as main users
• Technical knowledge of Linux, command line, Docker containers and Kubernetes
• Experience with software development processes and environments, build systems and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in defining the criteria for acceptable solutions (scale, performance, reliability, documentation, ease-of-use, etc.) and able to communicate and be responsive to a distributed, global team through multiple communication channels
• Ability to make clear prioritization decisions and work with a technical team in understanding tradeoff and design decisions
• Experience in mentoring other Product Owners on the process and best practices
• Ability to partner with stakeholders in the business on critical projects that support our strategic goals
• Ability to effectively communicate technical product features and nuances
• Preference for Certified Scrum Product Owners
• Preference for experience with application security or similar software testing and software quality workflows

What we offer yo u :

• Outstanding Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage to meet all your healthcare needs.
• Wellness benefits to help you focus on what’s most important.
• “Take What You Need” time off policy.
• Extensive development and training offerings to help you grow your career at Veracode.
• Generous 401k match to help save for your future.
• Amazing community of professionals who take pride in what we do every day.

Compensation Transparency

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Job Grade: Senior

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