Technical Product Manager - Enterprise Software

Safire; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Safire is seeking a Technical Product Manager to own a software product end-to-end, combining product leadership, execution, and system architecture. The role ensures the product solves the right problems, maintains coherence, and ships effectively.

The candidate will own the roadmap, translate business needs into engineering requirements, and collaborate with engineers on architectural decisions. This is an on-site role in Culver City, CA, with a focus on enterprise software outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent technical discipline.
• 5+ years in product management, software engineering, or technical PM.
• Experience owning complex software products end-to-end.
• Strong software architecture and systems thinking.
• Ability to work directly with software engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap, priorities, milestones, and releases.
• Translate business needs into clear engineering requirements.
• Coordinate engineers and stakeholders to resolve ambiguities.
• Maintain understanding of the full product architecture.
• Define system boundaries, APIs, integrations, and data flows.
• Collaborate with engineers on architectural decisions and tradeoffs.
• Balance speed, quality, debt, scalability, and security.
• Own outcomes beyond process and schedules.

Skills

Product management

Software engineering

Technical program management

Systems thinking

Architecture leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Technical Product Manager - Enterprise Software

Safire is seeking a Technical Product Manager to own a software product end-to-end. This role combines product leadership, project execution, and system architecture. The PM will be accountable for ensuring the product solves the right problems, maintains architectural coherence, and ships effectively.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap, priorities, requirements, milestones, dependencies, and releases.
• Translate business needs into clear engineering requirements.
• Coordinate engineering and stakeholders and drive ambiguous issues to decisions.
• Maintain a working understanding of the complete product architecture.
• Guide system boundaries, components, APIs, integrations, data flows, and infrastructure.
• Partner directly with engineers on architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs.
• Balance speed, quality, technical debt, scalability, security, and future flexibility.
• Own outcomes—not simply process, tickets, or schedules.

Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or comparable technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in product management, software engineering, technical program management, or related roles.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex software products from requirements through deployment.
• Strong software architecture and systems-thinking capability.
• Exceptional judgment under ambiguity and incomplete information.
• Ability to work directly and credibly with software engineers.

Nice to Have

• Graduate technical degree or MBA.
• Prior software engineering experience.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, APIs, AI/ML, or data platforms.
• Startup or zero-to-one product experience.