Technical Product Manager

Role Overview

Safe Software seeks a proactive Technical Product Manager to join the Product Management team, contributing to the Enterprise Automation and Platform Enablement portfolios within the FME Platform. This position involves a hands-on approach where you will participate in discovery, shaping, and delivering solutions that impact how enterprise customers deploy and manage FME. Over time, ownership of a product roadmap area will be expected, steering its strategic decisions and outcomes.

Team Environment

The Product Management group is dynamic and cross-functional, focused on evolving the FME Platform aligned with strategic business goals. The team takes a market and customer-centric approach, emphasizing collaboration, ownership, and evidence-based decision making.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify valuable problems to solve by framing opportunities, gathering customer insights, and validating concepts.
• Lead discovery activities with Design and Engineering using customer interviews, competitive research, and prototypes to minimize uncertainty before resource allocation.
• Translate validated concepts into clear, implementable deliverables such as PRDs and success metrics, coordinating with engineering on prioritization.
• Support the delivery process by clarifying requirements, integrating beta and early user feedback, and ensuring alignment with initial problem framing.
• Contribute across multiple roadmap sectors within the Enterprise Automation and Platform Enablement domains, guiding product lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Sales, and Customer Experience for release readiness and go-to-market messaging.

Qualifications and Skills

• At least 5 years of professional experience, including a minimum of 3 years in product management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong technical background with the ability to engage in detailed discussions on system architecture, deployment pipelines, APIs, and platform infrastructure.
• Experience developing products aimed at technical users such as operators, administrators, and developers rather than general consumers.
• Adept at handling ambiguity by creating clarity through structured problem solving and customer engagement.
• Excellent written communication skills with the capability to produce detailed PRDs and concept documents that advance project progress.
• Demonstrated collaboration skills working effectively with engineering, design, and product peers in shared ownership settings.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Safe Software’s technology, customer needs, and strategic objectives.
• Understanding of enterprise software adoption and operational challenges including deployment, administration, and scalability.
• Experience with workflow automation, job execution, or integration platforms.

Benefits and Work Culture

• Engage in meaningful work impacting data integration and business processes.
• Empowered environment encouraging idea sharing and autonomy with strong team support.
• Opportunities to contribute to community initiatives with paid volunteer time.
• Support for professional development with an annual learning budget and training programs funded by the company.
• Flexible remote working hours that accommodate your lifestyle preferences.
• Work-life balance with three weeks paid vacation and six additional paid seasonal days off annually.
• Comprehensive health, dental, lifestyle spending, and counseling benefits available from the first day of employment.
• Parental Leave Top-Up Program providing additional support for new parents through childbirth or adoption.
• Profit sharing and retirement plan matching programs reflecting collective success.
• Convenient workplace location with public transit access, complimentary parking, and bike storage.

Additional Information

Safe Software values diversity and inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer welcoming applicants from all backgrounds. Accommodations for the recruitment process are available upon request. The hiring process includes the use of automated tools to assist in application review; however, final decisions are made by team members. Contact hr_dept@safe.com for assistance or inquiries regarding this process.