Technical Product Manager – 12 Month FTC

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

📋 Description

• Equip the team with comprehensive technical requirements via a product backlog.

• Deliver products that align with Civica’s product roadmaps and strategic objectives.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure that technical solutions fulfill product requirements.

• Provide technical guidance and oversight to ensure feasible, scalable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions.

• Manage product backlogs and refine requirements into user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.

• Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

• Triage and resolve product-related issues while coordinating bug resolution.

• Communicate with stakeholders to effectively manage expectations.

• Identify risks and implement strategies for mitigation.

• Make trade-off decisions alongside the Product Manager regarding priorities, resources, and technical constraints.

• Collaborate with engineering, design, marketing, commercial, and customer success teams.

• Analyze data and metrics to guide product decisions and evaluate performance.

• Support knowledge sharing, as well as documentation for product decisions and design.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience as a Technical Product Manager in a contemporary software or product organization.

• Established ability to create and manage backlogs and compose clear user stories with comprehensive acceptance criteria.

• Ability to prioritize features, requirements, and tasks based on customer needs, business objectives, and technical feasibility.

• Strong technical foundation with experience in software development.

• Proficiency in technical discussions, code reviews, and architecture decisions.

• Understanding of customer needs, pain points, and motivations.

• Strong analytical abilities for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data.

• Capacity to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success.

• Flexibility to adapt to evolving market conditions, customer demands, and business priorities.

• Exceptional problem-solving skills.

• Experience with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.

• Familiarity with programming concepts, including data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns.

• Knowledge of technical architecture, system design, scalability, and performance optimization.

• Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, commercial teams, and senior management.

• Experience leading geographically distributed teams.

• Background in market research, competitive analysis, and market trend analysis.

• Familiarity with UX design principles and human-centered design methodologies.

• Experience with cloud-based technologies such as SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS.

• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

• Experience with Scrum, Kanban, or Lean.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.

• Option to purchase up to 10 additional days.

• Days of Difference – Up to 3 extra days off for volunteering.

• Pension Contributions – 5% employer match.

• Income Protection – Up to 75% salary coverage for long-term illness.

• Life Assurance – 4x salary tax-free lump sum.

• Critical Illness Cover – £25,000 lump sum, extendable to dependents.

• Private Medical Insurance.

• Health Cash Plan covering physiotherapy, therapies, and more.

• Dental Insurance.

• Affinity Groups – employee-led communities.

• Bounty Bonus – referral reward.

• Inclusive and diverse workplace.

• Recruitment adjustments or accommodations available.