Technical Product Manager - PrivateStorage Full-time

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to join our team. This position will lead the full software development life cycle for our PrivateStorage product, incorporating user feedback/research balanced with business and technical goals. It involves working cross-functionally with various members of the team to plan and release new versions of the product.

The responsibilities of this role include:

• Collaborate with management to develop the product vision and communicate with team members to ensure shared understanding for effective cooperation;
• Plan, execute and manage the product roadmap to achieve the product vision;
• Lead product development efforts from end to end:
• Create tickets, user stories, and well-defined acceptance criteria;
• Create success criteria for testing and product acceptance;
• Guide developers with clear direction and purpose, keeping a well-prioritized backlog and optimizing for efficiency in execution;
• Validate and demo product releases to ensure all requirements are met;
• Suggest workable solutions to development teams with consideration for product-market fit, positioning, and other market requirements;
• Assist with defining and evaluate key metrics to optimize performance;
• Implement staged launch of product;
• Realize and tackle risk, develop contingency plans for common risks;
• Seek ongoing insights from data, research, and market research;
• Coordinate product releases with marketing, including feature release communications and technical documentation;
• Collaborate with other team members to perform market research to identify and prioritize product opportunities; and
• Answer questions related to the product and its capabilities.

Helpful skills and attributes for this role include:

• Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including code reviews, build processes, testing, and operations;
• Experience serving as a technical product lead throughout the full software development life cycle is preferred;
• Interest and/or experience in leading the product design and development from a technical perspective;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for working with a distributed team, including developers, engineers, Q.A., and operations;
• At least one programming language – ideally Haskell, Rust, or Python;
• Problem-solver with positive attitude to working through roadblocks;
• Experience working with project management software; and

*Experience working within a software development methodology like Agile.

The ideal person for this role has interest in some or all of the following areas:

• Privacy Enhancing Tech, secure communications tools, security best practices, threat modeling, and network security;
• Distributed and decentralized technologies;

*Open source software and development practices;

This is a full-time position.