Technical Product Manager

DAT•Seattle, WA

1d•$138,160 - $184,919•Hybrid

About The Position

DAT Freight & Analytics is seeking a product manager to join its Auth Team, which owns the identity, authentication, and authorization platform underlying DAT products. The role partners with engineering to standardize and document authentication building blocks, libraries, APIs, access tokens, and internal testing patterns so teams can adopt them consistently and securely. Its customers include internal product teams building web and mobile applications as well as the external users of those products. The position plans and drives platform initiatives from requirements through launch. It will help shape strategy for consolidating customer identity across products from companies DAT has acquired, with a focus on scalable technical architecture. The role reports into the Engineering Identity Team and works closely with Platform Engineering, Product Design, Security, Compliance, and US-based and international engineering teams. DAT is a SaaS technology company focused on freight and logistics. It describes its workplace as hybrid and offers a competitive salary and benefits package. 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 with engineering.
Strong requirements-gathering skills and ability to 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 contributing to roadmap discussions.
Fluency with product and platform metrics; ability to interpret dashboards, identify appropriate success metrics, and build basic views independently or with support from data and 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 internal teams’ use of authentication building blocks, client libraries, APIs, access tokens, and testing patterns for authentication-dependent code.
Own execution of near-term platform initiatives, such as MFA adoption, authorization model improvements, and service-to-service authentication in a container environment.
Translate security and platform requirements into clear specifications and sequence work with engineering.
Conduct continuous discovery with Product, Engineering, and Compliance to develop a prioritized, well-documented roadmap.
Write and maintain adoption guides and internal documentation to reduce repeat questions and encourage consistent use of the authentication 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 the strategy for consolidating customer identity across newly acquired product offerings while ensuring a scalable technical architecture.