Technical Product Manager

About You

You are a technically fluent, execution-oriented professional who thrives at the intersection of product, engineering, and stakeholder management. You communicate clearly, operate independently, and bring empathy to every interaction.

You are proactive and solution-oriented. You identify problems, define solutions, and drive them forward in fast-paced Agile environments. You actively leverage AI tools as part of your daily workflow to improve productivity and delivery outcomes.

You feel comfortable owning a product backlog, onboarding API partners, presenting to a Change Advisory Board, and collaborating directly with clients to troubleshoot issues. You connect teams, drive accountability, and ensure initiatives move forward successfully.

 

You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:

• Strong experience working within Agile and Scrum frameworks, including backlog ownership, sprint ceremonies, story writing, and acceptance criteria definition.
• Product ownership mindset, with the ability to prioritize effectively, maintain quality standards, and drive Definition of Done.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, collaborating with engineers, product leaders, external partners, and clients.
• Understanding of API concepts, including REST services, JSON structures, authentication, and basic error handling.
• Experience using tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps for backlog management, issue tracking, and release coordination.
• Practical use of AI tools or copilots to improve workflows, documentation, and productivity.
• Strong documentation practices, including requirements, epics, workflows, integration points, and process artifacts.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage work independently and proactively identify risks.
• High level of empathy and curiosity, with a genuine interest in solving customer and partner problems.

You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities:

• Own and maintain a well-groomed product backlog, writing clear user stories and acceptance criteria aligned with business needs.
• Lead cross-functional project delivery and act as the primary point of accountability for progress and quality.
• Coordinate collaboration between internal engineering teams and external API or integration partners.
• Translate business and partner requirements into clear functional and technical documentation.
• Lead onboarding for new API partners, including requirements gathering, environment setup, testing, and go-live coordination.
• Manage intake, triage, prioritization, and assignment of technical issues, defects, and enhancement requests.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and cross-functional collaboration sessions.
• Work with engineering teams to analyze logs, error reports, and support tickets to diagnose and resolve issues.
• Deliver regular status updates and present change requests to the Change Advisory Board.
• Coordinate and support user acceptance testing (UAT) and partner validation activities.
• Track delivery progress, dependencies, and risks across multiple initiatives.
• Provide direct user support when required, including troubleshooting and product walkthroughs.
• Identify and drive improvements in onboarding, support processes, and operational workflows.
• Leverage AI tools to improve documentation quality, delivery speed, and operational efficiency.

• Hands-on experience with Jira or Azure DevOps for backlog management, sprint planning, and issue tracking.
• Working knowledge of REST APIs, JSON, and integration concepts, with the ability to support partner onboarding and triage technical issues.
• Proven ability to write user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical documentation for cross-functional engineering teams.

About Us

We Are Engineered Different.

At Applaudo, talented people design, build, and scale meaningful, AI-powered solutions that create real business impact. As an AI-native organization, we collaborate across design, development, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate, make decisions, and grow.

We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values: Empowering Excellence, Collaborative Teamwork, Unsolicited Respect, Consistent Transparency, and Efficient Communication. These define how we work, how we support one another, and how we hold ourselves accountable.

Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast, take ownership, and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally, investing in modern ways of working, and leading AI-native transformation at scale.