Technical Product Manager

Karthik Consulting is seeking a Technical Product Manager to drive product strategy and engage with mission stakeholders for their platform-as-a-service solution. This role involves understanding operational challenges, developing a product roadmap, and ensuring that platform capabilities align with customer priorities while delivering measurable mission value.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary product owner for assigned mission area platform user, representing customer priorities while maintaining alignment with the long-term platform strategy
• Lead mission-focused technical engagement with stakeholders to understand operational challenges, gather product requirements, and identify opportunities for new platform capabilities
• Develop, maintain, and communicate a prioritized product roadmap that balances mission value, engineering effort, technical debt, security, and operational sustainability
• Define product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics that enable engineering teams to deliver high-quality platform capabilities
• Partner with platform engineers, software engineers, cybersecurity specialists, and mission stakeholders to evaluate solution alternatives, technical tradeoffs, and implementation approaches
• Facilitate product planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and feature prioritization to ensure engineering efforts align with mission objectives
• Analyze customer feedback, operational metrics, and platform usage data to continuously improve the developer experience and platform capabilities
• Identify recurring customer needs and translate common requirements into scalable platform services that benefit multiple mission teams
• Communicate product vision, roadmap priorities, feature status, and release plans to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ensure delivered capabilities satisfy customer expectations, support platform engineering standards, and contribute to long-term platform evolution
• Build trusted relationships across engineering teams and mission stakeholders through technical credibility, transparency, and effective communication
• Continuously evaluate industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities that improve platform capabilities and mission outcomes

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible experience designing, building, and operating production platforms
• Active Secret security clearance
• United States citizenship
• Demonstrated experience managing technical products, platforms, or cloud-native services by defining product strategy, developing roadmaps, prioritizing backlogs, and delivering customer-focused capabilities
• Strong technical understanding of modern software development, cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, and platform engineering sufficient to evaluate engineering tradeoffs and effectively partner with technical teams
• Demonstrated ability to lead mission focused technical engagement by gathering customer requirements, building trusted relationships, and translating operational needs into actionable product requirements
• Experience balancing competing priorities, customer expectations, engineering capacity, security requirements, and long-term platform strategy to maximize mission value
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership, mission stakeholders, and multidisciplinary engineering teams while influencing decisions through technical credibility and sound product judgment