Senior Technical Product Manager, Content Platforms (Localization)
About The Position
Braze is seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to own the development of an AI-powered translation infrastructure. This is an early-stage platform role where the candidate will thrive in ambiguity, design systems for self-service, and drive the technical execution of an internal AI translation platform. The role involves determining where human review is essential and designing efficient workflows for it, aiming to remove unnecessary friction without compromising quality. The localization platform touches nearly every part of the business, and the TPM will need to understand the existing program and its opportunities. This is a hands-on role involving writing code, shipping prototypes, pairing with engineers, and measuring adoption, with an expectation to use and build with AI-assisted development tools.
Requirements
- Comfortable architecting multi-platform systems and reasoning about long-term design tradeoffs
- Truly embedded with engineering — not just mediating through tickets and grooming sessions, but collaborating in real time, pairing on problems, and helping the team move faster using the AI development tools available today
- Can hold your own in technical conversations without needing to defer every decision
- Experienced managing stakeholders across team boundaries, including customers who have real expectations tied to your delivery
- Genuinely curious about what AI makes possible — not as a buzzword, but as a tool you use and build with
- Iterative by nature: you'd rather ship a rough thing and learn than over-plan before moving
- Systems thinker: you design for the problems you haven't seen yet, not just the ones in front of you
- Deeply familiar with headless CMS architecture; Sanity experience is a strong plus
- Comfortable with Node.js, TypeScript, and modern web frameworks
- Able to build simple web apps and functional prototypes on your own — you won't be shipping complex systems to production solo, but you can independently validate an idea end-to-end
- Comfortable building with AI development tools like Claude Code or Cursor
Nice To Haves
- A working background in localization is a strong plus
- Familiar with the localization landscape — tools, workflows, vendor relationships, and where the real friction lives
- Able to develop a clear framework for when human review is required, tuned to content type, audience, risk, and context — not just an instinct, but a defensible model others can apply
- Experience with platforms like Phrase is relevant context
Responsibilities
- Own the localization infrastructure product: roadmap, architecture decisions, stakeholder alignment
- Partner with engineers to design and ship multi-platform systems that meet complex, evolving localization needs across the business
- Build functional prototypes independently to validate ideas and sharpen requirements before full engineering investment
- Design the workflows and self-serve patterns that let teams move forward without routing every request through a central queue
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted translation tooling while maintaining quality and consistency standards
- Help make smart build-vs-buy decisions — knowing when to build internal tooling and when existing or emerging vendors are the better answer
- Manage relationships with translation and localization vendors — what we expect of them, what we move away from, and how their work integrates with everything we build
Benefits
- Competitive compensation that may include equity
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
- Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave
- Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend
- A curated in-office employee experience, designed to foster community, team connections, and innovation
- Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching
- Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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