Technical Product Manager - Enterprise Software

Safire is seeking a Technical Product Manager to own a software product end-to-end. This role combines product leadership, project execution, and system architecture. The PM will be accountable for ensuring the product solves the right problems, maintains architectural coherence, and ships effectively.
Responsibilities
• Own the product roadmap, priorities, requirements, milestones, dependencies, and releases.
• Translate business needs into clear engineering requirements.
• Coordinate engineering and stakeholders and drive ambiguous issues to decisions.
• Maintain a working understanding of the complete product architecture.
• Guide system boundaries, components, APIs, integrations, data flows, and infrastructure.
• Partner directly with engineers on architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs.
• Balance speed, quality, technical debt, scalability, security, and future flexibility.
• Own outcomes—not simply process, tickets, or schedules.
Must Have
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or comparable technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in product management, software engineering, technical program management, or related roles.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex software products from requirements through deployment.
• Strong software architecture and systems-thinking capability.
• Exceptional judgment under ambiguity and incomplete information.
• Ability to work directly and credibly with software engineers.
Nice to Have
• Graduate technical degree or MBA.
• Prior software engineering experience.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, APIs, AI/ML, or data platforms.
• Startup or zero-to-one product experience.