Lead Technical Product Manager (Remote)

8th Light is a technology solutions consultancy headquartered in Chicago, seeking a Lead Technical Product Manager. The role involves leading product development from idea to production, collaborating with client teams, and driving product strategy while utilizing AI tools in the process.

Responsibilities:

• Write technical requirements, tickets, and user stories, and lead the engineering discussions behind them
• Own sprint planning, dependency mapping, and capacity forecasting
• Assess scope, commit to delivery estimates, and hold the engineering team accountable to set timelines
• Own backlog prioritization with the engineering team and drive work through to completion
• Push your work forward with AI across research, synthesis, and delivery, and bring clients and teams along for the ride
• Run product discovery and research with clients and their users
• Apply human centered design, lean, and agile practices to ship software people actually want to use
• Provide roadmap and strategy guidance, and own product strategy and go to market plans with key stakeholders
• Spot opportunities to grow client engagements through your product expertise and thought leadership
• Build relationships with peers, partners, and industry contacts to stay current on trends and practices

Requirements:

• Shipped software products for 8 or more years, ideally within a consulting or professional services environment
• Led cross discipline teams through product delivery for 5+ years, mentoring engineers and designers while keeping stakeholders aligned
• Owned delivery for engineering teams, from sprint planning and estimation to dependency mapping and capacity forecasting
• Built AI or ML powered products or features
• Adopted AI tools in your day to day work, with recent examples of shipping faster or working differently because of them
• Run product analytics and customer research, applying insights to drive stronger outcomes
• Collaborated across design, engineering, project management, and leadership
• Shaped product vision with clients while keeping the bigger strategic picture in view
• Kept one eye on the roadmap and one on the sprint, and knew when and where to shift focus
• Built a presence in the product community through writing, talks, or peer engagement
• A background in technical product management, technical project management, or product operations
• Experience in a boutique or smaller consultancy, where you stayed close to delivery and wore more than one hat
• Depth across interdisciplinary domains like security, observability, and cloud, gained inside digital product consultancies
• Experience selling professional services offerings to new or existing accounts of enterprise size and scale