Senior Technical Product Manager
On-siteMontréal, Quebec, Canada
Job Summary
Define and evolve the Query Execution product roadmap, balancing business requirements with foundational investments in scalability, reliability, and technical debt reduction. Partner with technical leads across Search API, indexing, and infrastructure to translate complex challenges into clear priorities. Gather requirements from stakeholders, create feature briefs, facilitate workshops, and drive alignment on scope. Lead product discovery and experimentation to validate technical approaches, while maintaining feedback loops with customer-facing teams to surface pain points and incorporate insights into prioritization. Stay current on search technology trends and competitive landscapes to identify opportunities for improvement or build-versus-buy decisions.
Required Qualifications
- 5+yrs experience in product management or a closely related role
- ability to independently own moderately complex initiatives
- ability to turn ambiguous needs into clear requirements and priorities
- Strong technical acumen
- curiosity
- ability to understand complex software systems
- ability to collaborate effectively with highly technical engineering teams
- Strong communication skills
- stakeholder management skills
- ability to adapt your message to technical and non-technical audiences
- ability to build alignment around competing priorities
- A proactive problem-solving mindset
- ability to anticipate challenges
- ability to navigate ambiguity
- ability to bring structure to complex product decisions
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working with search, information retrieval, indexing, distributed systems, infrastructure, or other technically complex software products
- Familiarity with artificial intelligence (AI), semantic or vector search, and emerging technologies shaping modern search experiences
- Experience using customer, market, and competitive insights to identify opportunities and influence product direction
- A track record of improving product practices
- facilitating cross-functional collaboration
- helping colleagues navigate complex technical product decisions
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