Technical Product Manager

At FlowFuse, the Technical Product Manager (TPM) bridges product strategy and technical execution. They turn complex technical challenges into measurable product outcomes, ensuring engineering delivers solutions that meet customer needs and quality standards.

This role blends technical depth and product acumen. The TPM dives into architecture, weighs trade-offs, and uses data to guide decisions on debt, scalability, and performance.

The Technical Product Manager reports to the Director of Product and is primarily responsible for:

• Bridging strategy and execution: Translate product strategy into clear, measurable technical outcomes and objectives.
• Defining requirements: Partner with engineering to balance user needs, feasibility, and business impact.
• Delivering outcomes: Set success metrics/KPIs, measure progress, and connect decisions to results.

• →Own metrics: Define, track, and report adoption, performance, reliability, and business impact.
• →Plan sprints and releases: Align roadmap, priorities, debt, and infrastructure with product strategy.
• →Shape specs/architecture: Co-create technical specs and provide architectural input.
• →Translate across teams: Bridge product, engineering, sales, and customer success.
• →Prioritize with data: Use usage data, customer feedback, and capacity signals.
• →Assess feasibility: Evaluate complexity, approaches, and technical risk.
• →Advocate quality: Set and monitor quality, performance, and reliability targets.

• Writing production code or implementing features directly.
• Managing engineers or individual performance.
• Final technical architecture decisions (owned by CTO/engineering leadership).

We believe setting clear expectations enables new teammates to thrive. Here's what success looks like in your first 90 days at FlowFuse:

Primary Objective: Own execution: prioritize, manage backlog, and ship with engineering.

Co-own priority ordering, sprint readiness, and tradeoff decisions.

• Sprint goal tracking
• Outcome-based roadmap updates

Drive at least one major platform or customer-facing improvement to release.

Solidify operating model and learning loops.

Success Signals by Day 90:

• TPM + engineering leads run backlog prioritization
• Sprint planning is outcome-driven
• Execution cadence is faster and clearer

Deliverables:

• ✅ Backlog actively managed weekly
• ✅ Now / Next / Later execution view
• ✅ Release + feedback capture
• ✅ FlowFuse Product Delivery Playbook v1

Goal: By day 90, the TPM has moved from learning → alignment → execution → shared backlog ownership, with clarity on WIN priorities and active backlog management.

• Technical depth: Understand architecture, APIs, databases, and SDLC; low-code/Node-RED is a plus.
• Outcome orientation: Define KPIs and use data to drive decisions and impact.
• Product/engineering fluency: Comfortable with user stories and technical implementation.
• Strategic to tactical: Convert strategy into deliverables and milestones.
• Analytical: Use qualitative and quantitative inputs for prioritization.
• Technical communication: Translate across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative problem solving: Partner with engineering to find pragmatic solutions.
• Trade-off judgment: Balance debt, features, performance, scalability, and business priorities.

1. Resume screening by hiring manager.
2. 20‑minute screening call with recruiter.
3. Director of Product interview (45m): product, technical fit, outcomes, communication.
4. CTO interview (45m): technical depth, collaboration, trade-offs.
5. Engineering Manager interview (30m): technical collaboration and requirements clarity.
6. Technical case study presentation with metrics and lessons learned.
7. Final interview (optional) with VP of Sales or stakeholder.
8. Offer.