Technical Product Manager – Platform
At Board, we power financial and operational planning solutions for the world’s best brands. Thousands of enterprises use our technology to optimize resources, drive growth, and ensure profitability. With advanced analytics and forecasting, plus AI-driven insights, customers transform complex, real-time data into actionable intelligence. What’s been key to our success? Our people—we value everyone’s unique perspective and energy they bring to the organization. We collaborate openly across teams and borders. We embrace a growth mindset to get results. And we celebrate shared success as goals and milestones are achieved. Ready to join a team where innovation meets collaboration? If you're driven by bold ideas and a customer-centric mentality, your next adventure starts here! We are seeking a Technical Product Manager – Platform Architecture to own and drive the Platform Technology Roadmap, with a focus on building a scalable, reliable, and cloud-first platform foundation. This is a platform leadership role centered on long-term scalability, operational excellence, and customer-centric evolution of the product platform. The role shapes the underlying technology direction that enables sustained innovation across products. You will work closely with Engineering and Architecture to ensure the platform roadmap supports growth, reliability, and long-term innovation. Role Focus This role is focused on:
- Defining and maintaining a clear, coherent platform technology direction
- Ensuring the platform scales efficiently as the business and supported use cases grow
- Embedding reliability, observability, and operational insight into the platform
- Guiding platform evolution in a controlled, customer-centric manner
- Defining and driving success metrics and OKRs related to platform scalability, efficiency, reliability, integration readiness, and adoption of platform capabilities
Key Responsibilities
Platform Strategy & Roadmap
- Own, maintain, and communicate the platform technology roadmap
- Translate architectural initiatives into clear product priorities and measurable outcomes
- Partner with Engineering and Architecture to align platform design decisions with long-term strategy
- Define and govern supported customer transition paths
- Establish clear platform standards and defaults in collaboration with technical leadership
Engineering Partnership Partner closely with Engineering to:
- Enable shared services and automation
- Reduce platform complexity over time
- Align new capabilities with the long-term platform direction
- Guide API governance, versioning approaches, and integration standards
- Support modernization initiatives and structured technical evolution
Scalability, Reliability & Operational Excellence
- Ensure reliability, observability, and operational insight are embedded into platform decisions and roadmap priorities
- Incorporate SLOs, SLAs, and production performance metrics into roadmap trade-offs
- Monitor platform health metrics and drive continuous improvement
- Evaluate scalability and cost-efficiency considerations in cloud environments
What Success Looks Like
- The platform scales predictably and efficiently
- Platform evolution is deliberate, well-sequenced, and customer-centric
- Engineering teams move faster with fewer platform-level constraints
- Platform success metrics show measurable improvement in scalability, efficiency, and reliability
- Stakeholders have confidence in the platform roadmap and technical direction
Experience & Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Solution Architecture, Platform Engineering, or Technical Product Management
- Experience owning platform, infrastructure, or technology roadmaps
- Proven experience operating in cloud-native, distributed systems environments
- Strong understanding of distributed system design, including microservices and event-driven architectures
- Deep knowledge of scalability strategies (horizontal scaling, partitioning, caching, asynchronous processing)
- Experience working with AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code
- Experience working with SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and production reliability practices
- Understanding of API design, versioning, and backward compatibility principles
- Ability to assess architectural trade-offs and modernization strategies
- Ability to operate effectively at both strategic and execution levels
- Strong collaboration with Engineering and Architecture teams
- Clear communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
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