Technical Program Manager

Do you get excited when you read Ben Horowitz’s definition of a good product owner? Do you love bringing valuable software products to market? Do you have a strong technical background so that you can work closely with the engineering teams, but at the same time  do you have an excellent understanding of product life cycles? If so, this role is for you.

We are looking for a world-class Technical Program Manager to help us define and build the software products that underpin our continued success. In this hands-on role, you will orchestrate the delivery of your products, from setting specifications to execution and continual refinement, as you receive feedback from Product Managers and other stakeholders.

You will be working directly with our engineering teams to make our roadmap become real products. As a result, we are looking for a person that has a good technical software background. We will be measuring your performance based on the volume of quality features being released to production, which emphasizes how tightly you will be working with the various execution teams.

This is a completely remote position. You can work from anywhere, and will be collaborating with people from all over the world. Therefore, strong communication and presentation skills will be crucial for your success.

Company Description:

Aurea enables global enterprises to create transformative experiences for their end customers across a range of industries including retail, travel & hospitality, energy, life sciences, and insurance. Aurea products enable companies to build, execute, monitor, and optimize the end-to-end customer journey across multiple channels and touchpoints to maximize growth through a superior customer experience. Aurea serves over 2,000 customers worldwide.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the product team to define the product roadmap that will add significant value to Aurea
• Create and prioritize the product backlog
• Coordinate end-to-end delivery of multiple projects across multiple engineering teams
• Work with our engineering teams daily in one scrum team to go from comps to working software
• Create detailed working packages from Product Managers’ specifications
• Review the features delivered by the engineering teams and demo them to Product Manager
• Manage a development process with an expected weekly (or faster) production release within a fast-changing and highly agile framework
• Work Primarily with tech-heavy projects

Total compensation: $100,000/year
Location: Global (remote)
40 hours per week

Required Skills, Experience, and Education:

• 5+ years of technical product management and/or project management experience
• 2+ years of experience in programming (coding is not required in this role)
• Experience bringing software products to market
• Background with larger proven products Experience on products actually used in Production
• Demonstrated ability to create, manage, and prioritize a product backlog that adds value to the company
• Familiarity with InVision, JIRA, and Sketch software development tools
• Ability to understand technology discussions in the context of a service-oriented architecture and a modern UI tech stack
• Ability to create detailed technical working packages from higher-level specifications
• Extraordinary technical background
• Bachelor’s degree from a top-tier university (degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field are preferred)

This role will be a great fit for you if:

• You are technical but love developing great products
• You have worked on proven products especially those used in production
• You have Extraordinary technical background
• You love to be creative and innovate in product development
• You can work closely with a team to coordinate, inspire, and execute
• You have a sense of measured urgency—you’re able to make things happen quickly and correctly, even with large teams, in tedious situations, and in dynamic, constantly changing environments
• You make decisions quickly and own them, and you change your mind as the data dictates
• You are super detailed-oriented
• You are fearless in seeking out more efficient solutions and constantly challenge the status quo

We’re one of the few legitimate companies offering high-paying jobs that are 100% remote / work from home. You never have to fight traffic to the office again, and you have the freedom to choose when and where you put in your 40 hours to be most effective each week.

To qualify, please provide a resume / CV demonstrating the required experience and skills. From there, to help us find the top 1% of talent, there will be a series of interviews and online skills examinations. We realize these are challenging and can require a decent amount of time, so we thank you in advance for your efforts.