Technical Product Manager

Come and See•Colorado Springs, CO

50d•Remote

About The Position

The Technical Product Manager serves as a strategic and technical leader within the Product team, ensuring that Come and See Foundation delivers high-quality, scalable, and mission-aligned digital products. This role provides product direction while also overseeing engineering execution, architectural soundness, code quality, and long-term technology strategy across our outsourced engineering partners. Reporting to the Principal Product Manager, the Technical Product Manager acts as a trusted advisor, technical steward, and collaborative problem solver—bridging the gap between product vision and engineering execution. While this is not an engineering role, it requires someone with hands-on software development experience who can engage in code reviews, contribute small code changes, manage skunkworks prototyping, and guide teams toward technical excellence. The ideal candidate is a hybrid thinker—part engineer, part product strategist—who is comfortable shaping product requirements, challenging technical decisions, and driving engineering best practices, all while maintaining a servant-hearted approach consistent with our mission to share the story of Jesus globally.

Requirements

Customer Service: Demonstrates exceptional responsiveness to internal partners and external vendors.
Integrity: Operates with honesty and transparency; protects the organization’s technical and ministry interests.
Collaboration: Builds trust and rapport across teams through servant-minded partnership.
Communication: Communicates complex technical topics clearly in both written and verbal forms.
Adaptability: Navigates changing priorities with grace and resilience.
Openness to Feedback: Receives feedback with humility; offers constructive feedback to others.
High Standards: Maintains excellence in all aspects of technical and product work.
Organization & Planning: Manages multiple projects effectively with strong prioritization skills.
Independence: Works effectively with minimal supervision while managing multiple stakeholders.
Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, cloud technologies, and application architectures (e.g., microservices, APIs, mobile development frameworks).
Proficiency with at least one modern programming language (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Swift, Kotlin).
Experience conducting code reviews, debugging issues, and contributing to small code changes.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and development best practices.
Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and guide teams toward scalable solutions.
Experience integrating third-party services, SDKs, and platform APIs.
Comfort working across mobile apps, web applications, backend services, and cloud infrastructure.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field preferred.
Minimum 5–7 years of experience in software engineering, technical product management, or a hybrid engineering/product role.
Demonstrated ability to lead without authority, influence engineering teams, and drive alignment across stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience working with or managing outsourced engineering partners strongly preferred.
Experience in product management or building user-facing products is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Technology Strategy & Architecture
Provide architectural guidance to ensure scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability of all digital platforms.
Evaluate and influence technical decisions made by external engineering partners; validate that solutions align with product needs and organizational standards.
Develop and maintain technical roadmaps in partnership with product and engineering leads.
Drive adoption of modern development practices, tooling, and frameworks that elevate engineering quality and velocity.
Conduct technical discovery, provide feasibility assessments, and explore emerging technologies to support innovation.
Engineering Oversight & Quality
Oversee outsourced engineering teams to ensure high-quality execution, maintain velocity, and deliver predictable outcomes.
Perform code reviews, troubleshoot issues, and contribute small code changes or utilities when needed to unblock progress.
Establish quality standards, coding best practices, and documentation expectations across all engineering engagements.
Monitor system reliability and technical KPIs, partnering with vendors to improve performance, security, and operational excellence.
Manage backlog grooming, technical requirement refinement, and engineering scoping alongside vendor teams.
Product Leadership & Delivery
Translate product goals into clear technical requirements that align with business and ministry objectives.
Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, engineering vendors, and ministry partners to define and deliver features.
Support data-driven product prioritization by providing technical impact assessments and effort estimates.
Ensure technical considerations are integrated early in the product development lifecycle to reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
Drive rapid prototyping and “skunkworks” initiatives that enable discovery, innovation, and future product opportunities.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Serve as a key liaison between the Product & Technology team, external engineering vendors, and internal stakeholders.
Translate complex technical concepts into understandable language for non-technical leaders.
Champion product and engineering alignment, ensuring visibility into progress, risks, and opportunities.
Provide support to ministry teams by advising on technical feasibility and solution design for new initiatives.
Personnel & Organiztional Leadership
technical literacy of the organization.
Collaborate with leaders across the organization to align technology strategy with organizational mission and long-term vision.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and technical excellence across teams and vendor relationships.