Technical Product Manager

DAT•Seattle, WA

2h•$138,160 - $184,919•Hybrid

About The Position

DAT Freight & Analytics is hiring a Senior Product Manager for its Auth Team, which owns the identity, authentication, and authorization platform used across DAT products. This is a platform-building role serving internal product teams building web and mobile applications as well as external users who log in to those applications. The role partners with engineering to standardize auth building blocks, libraries, APIs, access tokens, and testing patterns, making them well-documented and straightforward for other teams to adopt correctly. The position plans and drives execution from requirements through launch and helps shape a strategy for consolidating customer identity across DAT's recently acquired product offerings while ensuring a scalable technical architecture. It reports into the Engineering Identity Team and works closely with Platform Engineering, Product Design, and Security. DAT is a SaaS technology company focused on freight and logistics, operating North America's largest freight marketplace. The company has nearly 700 teammates across offices in Denver, Portland, Seattle, Springfield, Toronto, and Bangalore. The role has a hybrid work environment. For Washington-based candidates, the stated salary range is $138,160–$184,919.

Requirements

At least 5 years of product management, engineering, or related experience in web or mobile application development.
Working knowledge of software platform development, including API and library design for internal consumers.
Working knowledge of identity and access management concepts, SSO, MFA, authentication versus authorization, and token types sufficient to discuss trade-offs credibly with engineering.
Strong ability to gather requirements, reduce ambiguity, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences in writing and verbally.
Demonstrated execution rigor, including shipping features with urgency and quality and actively contributing to roadmap discussions.
Fluency with product and platform metrics; ability to read dashboards, identify appropriate success metrics, and build basic views independently or with support from data/analytics.
Ability to connect day-to-day execution to broader strategy and explain how roadmap choices support DAT's long-term goals.

Nice To Haves

Technical writing experience.
Experience with Auth0 or a similar SaaS-based identity provider using OAuth2/OIDC.
Direct experience developing software.
SQL or other data querying skills.
Experience supporting internal developer platforms or tools.

Responsibilities

Standardize how internal teams use authentication building blocks, client libraries, APIs, access tokens, and test patterns so adoption is consistent, secure, and low-friction.
Own execution of near-term platform initiatives, such as MFA adoption, authorization model improvement, and service-to-service authentication in a container environment.
Translate security and platform requirements into clear specifications and sequence work with engineering.
Drive continuous discovery with Product, Engineering, and Compliance to identify and maintain a prioritized, well-documented roadmap.
Write and maintain adoption guides and internal documentation that reduce repeat questions and promote consistent use of the auth platform.
Work with US-based and international engineering teams.
Define success metrics, monitor rollout health after launch, and use data and feedback to drive continuous improvement.
Present upcoming features, migrations, and rollout plans to cross-functional stakeholders.
Help form a strategy to consolidate customer identity across newly acquired product offerings while ensuring scalable technical architecture.