Lead Technical Product Manager

Bjak•Madison, MS

About The Position

The company aims to build proactive, AI-native applications for people who are not accustomed to complex prompting, bringing intelligence to conversations, errands, organization, and workflows with minimal or no prompting. Its first application is an agent-first mobile communication app intended to help integrate AI into daily communication, coordination, and collaboration. The Lead Technical Product Manager will define product strategy, roadmap, and priorities based on user needs, market opportunities, and business goals. The role spans product scope, feature priorities, and release plans across major product areas, and involves close partnership with engineering leadership on architecture, technical feasibility, and trade-offs that affect performance and reliability. The role also guides product and design decisions, leads launch planning and post-launch improvements, and sets success metrics to inform investment and priorities.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of product management experience, including leading major technology products or product lines.
  • Deep technical fluency across system architecture, distributed systems, APIs, data infrastructure, and production reliability.
  • Ability to evaluate system-level designs and understand how architectural decisions affect product capabilities, scalability, cost, and time-to-market.
  • Experience setting product strategy and technical priorities across multiple interconnected product areas or teams.
  • Ability to identify technical investments that unlock product capabilities, reduce operational complexity, or create a competitive advantage.
  • Proven track record of launching and scaling products with measurable business and user impact.
  • Strong judgment in resolving competing priorities across users, business objectives, engineering capacity, and long-term technical direction.
  • Ability to align engineering, design, and business stakeholders around product direction, technical constraints, and measurable outcomes.

Nice To Haves

  • Previous software engineering experience.
  • Experience leading zero-to-one products, platform strategy, technically complex consumer products, or cross-team product initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Define product strategy, roadmap, and priorities based on user needs, market opportunities, and business goals.
  • Determine product scope, feature priorities, and release plans across major product areas.
  • Work with engineering leadership on system architecture, technical feasibility, and trade-offs affecting product performance and reliability.
  • Guide product and design decisions to ensure a consistent, intuitive user experience across the application.
  • Lead launch planning, release readiness, and post-launch improvements based on product performance.
  • Set product success metrics and use adoption, engagement, retention, and user feedback to guide investment and priorities.
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