Technical Product Manager

CDW; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CDW is seeking a highly collaborative Technical Product Manager to partner with business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to drive the delivery of complex software products and modernization initiatives. This 1-year contract role is fully remote.

You will own backlog management, facilitate requirements discussions, define acceptance criteria and success measures, manage cross-team dependencies, and ensure product investments deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, Product Owner, or Senior Product Owner.
• Strong Agile, Scrum, or SAFe experience.
• Proven expertise in backlog management, prioritization, and roadmap planning.
• Ability to create high-quality user stories, acceptance criteria, and product requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge assumptions, clarify requirements, and drive alignment among competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and clarify business requirements through stakeholder engagement.
• Translate business needs into features, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Own product backlogs and prioritize work based on business value, risk, and strategic objectives.
• Partner with engineering and architecture teams to align business requirements with technical solutions.
• Drive backlog refinement, sprint planning, roadmap planning, and product validation activities.
• Manage dependencies across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Balance delivery of new capabilities with platform improvements, scalability, and technical debt reduction.
• Define and measure success criteria to ensure delivered solutions achieve intended outcomes.

Skills

Product management

Product ownership

Agile methodologies

Backlog management

Stakeholder management

User story creation

Roadmap planning

Job description

Technical Product Manager / Senior Product Owner

1 year contract

100% remote

CDW is seeking a highly collaborative Technical Product Manager to partner with business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to drive the delivery of complex software products and modernization initiatives. This individual will serve as the bridge between business objectives and technical execution, translating strategic goals into prioritized product roadmaps, features, epics, and user stories.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in Product Management or Product Ownership within a software engineering environment and is comfortable working closely with development teams, architects, and business leaders. You will own backlog management, facilitate requirements discussions, define acceptance criteria and success measures, manage cross-team dependencies, and ensure product investments deliver measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and clarify business requirements through stakeholder engagement.
• Translate business needs into well-defined features, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Own product backlogs and prioritize work based on business value, risk, and strategic objectives.
• Partner with engineering and architecture teams to align business requirements with technical solutions.
• Drive backlog refinement, sprint planning, roadmap planning, and product validation activities.
• Manage dependencies across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Balance delivery of new capabilities with platform improvements, scalability, and technical debt reduction.
• Define and measure success criteria to ensure delivered solutions achieve intended outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• Experience as a Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, Product Owner, or Senior Product Owner.
• Strong Agile, Scrum, or SAFe experience.
• Proven expertise in backlog management, prioritization, and roadmap planning.
• Ability to create high-quality user stories, acceptance criteria, and product requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge assumptions, clarify requirements, and drive alignment among competing priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Software engineering or development background.
• Experience partnering closely with architects and software engineering teams.
• Understanding of APIs, integrations, cloud technologies, and modern application architectures.
• Experience supporting large-scale product transformation or modernization programs.

Ideal Background

Candidates who have served as a Technical Product Manager, Senior Product Owner, or Product Manager within a software engineering organization and possess enough technical depth to engage effectively with architects and development leaders while owning product strategy, backlog prioritization, and feature delivery will be particularly well suited for this role.