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Solace is a leader in technology and innovation, empowering the world's largest enterprises to become real-time, data-driven organizations. Our cutting-edge technology intelligently, securely, and reliably enables solutions for hybrid cloud integration, IoT connectivity, microservices, big data distribution and AI. Help Us, Help Them, Help You The next time you drive a luxury vehicle, order furniture online, fly in a plane, or do some online banking, know that your seamless experience may be powered by our technology—and your hard work! About the Role We are seeking a seasoned Technical Product Manager with expertise in APIs, event brokers, and cloud technologies to define and implement our innovative cloud offerings.
As a Technical Product Manager, you will collaborate closely with customers and dynamic teams across engineering, product, and UX to create state-of-the-art API solutions as both discrete and broker integrated. You will also work with sales and marketing teams to bring these offerings to market. At Solace, our technical product managers are driven, technically skilled, customer-focused, and strong communicators. This role demands the ability to collaborate with stakeholders to gather detailed use cases and requirements and clearly translate these into actionable deliverables for Solace architects and developers.
Then once built, you will work with our marketing and sales teams to take the product to market by helping define product messaging, product enablement content, and sales enablement. You will also evaluate proposed solutions to ensure they meet market and customer needs, taking a pragmatic approach to product direction while balancing technical requirements with business impact. What you will do:
- Lead technical feature delivery and customer-centric initiatives for major products or features
- Define product and feature specifications and roll-out strategies.
- Track high-level product metrics aligned with business objectives.
- Develop and manage technical product roadmaps.
- Conduct customer discovery sessions.
- Represent Product Management as a Product Owner across 1 or 2 design scrums.
- Lead complex, high-impact initiatives across multiple design teams.
- Help lead and scale product areas to meet enterprise and customer needs.
- Act as a product escalation point, working closely with engineering to deliver robust solutions.
- Provide pre-sales support, including RFP/RFI responses.
What will you bring to the Role:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, and/or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years in the IT or telecommunications sector, with experience in cloud, messaging middleware, and/or IoT.
- 3+ years as a product manager, product line manager, or product owner for Enterprise product developed with development teams using an Agile development methodology.
- Experience with a wide variety of different programming languages, and messaging protocols is desirable.
- Specific experience in the middleware, integration, APIM space very desirable.
- In-depth knowledge of industry technology and market trends.
- Solid understanding of leading cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and Kubernetes.
- Strong communication, presentation, planning, organizational and persuasion skills.
- Technically strong and able to learn new technologies quickly.
- Proficiency in Agile software delivery methodologies.
- Exceptional customer engagement and technical communication abilities.
- Strong collaboration with technical teams to drive feature delivery.
Why You’ll Want to Join Us at Solace
- We have an awesome team! You’ll get to work with some of the smartest individuals in the business
- We believe in work-life balance and believe it’s important to love what you do
- We have adopted a hybrid work model to create an inclusive working environment for everyone
- We live by our values: craftsmanship, trust, courage, freedom, momentum, humility, and human experience. Every. Single. Day.
- Our training programs are top-notch (LinkedIn Learning, Mentorship program, Solace Academy)
- We like to brag about ourstellar customer lineup!
- We are social – we like to keep things simple and fun!
- We are one of the top-ranked employers on Glassdoor
- We have a sense of humour and make cool videos on cool topics likeMITTandthis!
We understand that experience takes on various shapes and sizes. Not sure you meet all the requirements? We still want to hear from you! Your unique experience could be exactly what we are looking for. At Solace, we believe that diversity and inclusion drive innovation and growth, both in business and in life. We strive to create an enriching and safe workplace where you can be who you are. If you want to do the best work of your career and feel supported every step of the way, we encourage you to join us! Accommodations are available upon request for anyone taking part in the hiring process.
Let us know how we can help! We thank all candidates for their interest, however, only those selected to continue in the selection process will be contacted.
