Manager, Technical Product Management
About The Position
The Manager, Technical Product Management will support McDonald’s Commerce Platforms, a strategic product suite providing core digital commerce capabilities for consistent menu, ordering, and nutrition experiences across channels and markets. The Ordering Platform is the transactional foundation for order creation and lifecycle management, supporting consistency, reliability, and scalability across commerce channels and serving as the backbone for order conversion and fulfillment. This role owns tactical product execution for the Ordering backend platform. It aligns sprint and quarterly priorities with organizational objectives and product strategy, manages the engineering backlog, translates platform strategies into technical requirements, and coordinates with product managers for consuming digital channels. The role also maintains a rolling tactical roadmap one to three quarters ahead and works closely with engineering teams to support predictable delivery and clear documentation.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Technical Product Manager, Product Owner, or Technical Analyst working closely with backend engineering teams.
- Ability to independently analyze API contracts, understand data models, and map system-to-system workflows.
- Experience writing detailed user stories and technical acceptance criteria and managing a backlog in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Ability to communicate complex technical constraints to non-technical stakeholders and translate business requirements into technical reality.
- Ability to manage competing priorities from multiple consuming channels, such as balancing Mobile app requests against Web capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Align sprint and quarterly planning decisions with organizational objectives, product strategy, and leadership-defined priorities for the Ordering backend platform.
- Own the sprint backlog, write detailed epics and user stories, and participate in Agile and sprint ceremonies with engineering squads.
- Translate domain-level platform strategies into technical requirements, including data mappings, API behaviors, system workflows, and edge-case logic.
- Serve as the interface for downstream digital channels such as Mobile and Web, negotiating sprint priorities, aligning delivery timelines, and explaining how to consume platform capabilities.
- Investigate underlying architecture and troubleshoot data flow issues, analyze API payloads, and define technical acceptance criteria.
- Coordinate with product managers for consuming channels, including Mobile, Web, and Kiosk, to identify and sequence backend dependencies and align sprint-level work.
- Maintain a rolling tactical roadmap one to three quarters ahead, ensuring engineering execution aligns with the strategic vision set by Product Leadership.
- Provide clear user stories and technical acceptance criteria to support predictable, high-quality engineering execution.
- Resolve dependency conflicts early, keep the backlog groomed and actionable, and help reduce engineering cycle time.
- Maintain a clearly documented suite of Ordering platform capabilities.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, prescription drug, mental health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Life insurance.
- Eligibility for a bonus based on individual and company performance.
- Eligibility for stock or other equity grants under McDonald’s long-term incentive plan.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
