Technical Product Manager

Alliance HCM•The Woodlands, TX

6d•Onsite

About The Position

AllianceHCM is seeking a full-time, salaried Technical Product Manager to join its team onsite at its Shenandoah, Texas campus. The role has direct exposure to leadership and high-impact client projects, and involves collaborating in person with engineering and business teams during standard business hours. The Technical Product Manager will own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for core platform capabilities, backend integrations, and API frameworks. The role partners with Engineering leadership and Staff Engineers to balance technical debt, scalability initiatives, infrastructure modernization, and new feature requests. It translates business goals into technical specifications, user stories, and system-level roadmaps; leads technical discovery; manages and prioritizes engineering backlogs; monitors platform metrics; and communicates between technical engineering teams and non-technical business units. AllianceHCM provides cloud-based human capital management technology for small to mid-sized businesses, including payroll, HR, benefits, and onboarding capabilities.

Requirements

Experience as a Technical Product Manager, Product Manager, or Product Owner managing complex, platform-focused, or infrastructure-heavy products.
A solid technical foundation.
Ability to interpret system diagrams, discuss API structures, and understand data models; production coding is not required.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience in a technical role, such as software engineering, data analysis, or systems architecture.

Responsibilities

Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for core platform capabilities, backend integrations, and API frameworks.
Partner with Engineering leadership and Staff Engineers to balance technical debt, scalability initiatives, infrastructure modernization, and new feature requests.
Translate ambiguous business goals into detailed technical specifications, user stories, and system-level roadmaps.
Lead technical discovery by mapping dependencies, assessing risks, and validating system feasibility.
Manage and prioritize the backlog for core platform engineering teams, ensuring requirements are well-defined and ready for execution.
Establish and monitor core platform metrics focused on system reliability, API performance, and data processing efficiency.
Serve as the primary translator between technical engineering teams and non-technical business units, clearly communicating product capabilities and limitations.