Lead Technical Product Manager – Commerce Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and refine the product strategy for designated Commerce Platform functionalities.

• Convert customer, business, and commercial requirements into scalable technical products and platform features.

• Collaborate with Engineering and Architecture to define platform strategy and address constraints, trade-offs, and long-term risks.

• Balance immediate needs with foundational platform investments, ensuring technical health, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

• Oversee the complete product lifecycle from discovery and strategy to implementation, launch, adoption, and ongoing enhancement.

• Convert product strategy into technical specifications and actionable tasks.

• Manage the product backlog, inclusive of epics, user stories, requirements, acceptance criteria, and prioritization.

• Make decisions regarding prioritization and trade-offs across scope, value, cost, complexity, risk, and time to market.

• Monitor post-launch outcomes, adoption rates, operational data, and feedback from partners.

• Advance Commerce Platform functionalities towards modular, scalable, and reusable services.

• Advocate for API-first, domain-driven, and event-driven methodologies.

• Establish contracts and interfaces between platform functionalities and their consumers.

• Facilitate the transition from legacy commerce functionalities to next-generation services.

• Manage dependencies across upstream and downstream systems, consumers, and teams.

• Consider the wider commerce ecosystem, including product information, inventory, order management, identity, payments, fraud, pricing and promotions, search, analytics, and customer data.

• Build consensus among partners and communicate strategy, roadmap, priorities, decisions, risks, and outcomes.

• Represent Commerce Platform functionalities in high-level planning and roadmap discussions.

• Manage relationships with external vendors and technology partners.

• Define measurable outcomes and KPIs for adoption, reliability, performance, operational efficiency, developer experience, and growth.

• Utilize product, operational, and engineering data to guide prioritization and investment choices.

• Assess industry trends, technologies, and commerce platform functionalities.

• Investigate automation and AI opportunities to enhance platform capabilities, discovery, productivity, documentation, and operations.

• Establish a clear roadmap and assist in evolving the platform towards more distinct domain boundaries and a modular, scalable architecture.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Technical Product Management, Product Management for technical platforms, or a related field.

• Proven experience managing product strategies and roadmaps for intricate technical products or platform functionalities.

• Technical fluency and capability to engage in architecture and system design discussions.

• Experience with APIs, distributed systems, integrations, and contemporary platform architectures.

• Ability to comprehend complex systems and identify upstream and downstream dependencies.

• Proven track record of translating ambiguous business and technical challenges into product strategies, requirements, roadmaps, and executable backlogs.

• Experience leveraging data to inform product decisions and assess outcomes.

• Ability to influence multiple teams and organizational boundaries.

• Proficient in communicating complex technical concepts and trade-offs to senior business and technology stakeholders.

• Experience developing technical products or platform capabilities within digital commerce, retail, or other large-scale transactional ecosystems.

• Background in commerce platform modernization, migration, or replatforming initiatives.

• Familiarity with SAP Commerce (Hybris), SCAYLE, or other headless or composable commerce platforms.

• Experience with domain-driven design, API-first platforms, event-driven architectures, and modern integration patterns.

• Understanding of commerce domains such as product information, inventory, cart, checkout, payments, fraud, promotions, identity, search, order management, and analytics.

• Experience developing platforms or services utilized by multiple products, channels, markets, or engineering teams.

• Experience in global environments with distributed engineering and product teams.

• Proven ability to manage strategic relationships with technology vendors and external partners.

• Experience utilizing AI and automation to enhance product management, engineering efficiency, or platform operations.

• Legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire.

• Must not require current or future employment visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Base pay

• Incentive plans

• 401(k) matching

• Paid leave

• Health insurance

• Product discounts

• Total rewards package

• Flexible work-life balance support