Technical Product Manager, Platform Engineering

Arrowstreet Capital is seeking a Technical Product Manager for Platform Engineering to own and communicate the integrated platform engineering roadmap. This role translates strategy and stakeholder needs into prioritized initiatives, driving adoption and service quality across the platform portfolio while ensuring reliability and operational readiness.

Role Overview

The Technical Product Manager for Platform Engineering reports to the Head of Platform Engineering and is accountable for shaping, maintaining, and communicating the integrated Platform Engineering roadmap. The role converts overall strategy and technical direction, together with stakeholder requirements, operational priorities, risk, cost, dependencies, and engineering capacity, into a cohesive plan.

Working with application teams, investment teams, engineering leads, and other highly technical stakeholders, the Technical Product Manager assesses diverse internal needs against the capabilities of existing platform offerings and recommends how those needs should be addressed through roadmap priorities.

The position also oversees service performance across the platform portfolio. Engineering leaders and subject-matter experts lead detailed technical discussions and remain responsible for architecture, implementation, and day-to-day service operation. The Technical Product Manager ensures stakeholder engagement is effective, priorities and commitments are coordinated, and platform services operate to an agreed quality bar.

Responsibilities

• Own the shaping, maintenance, and communication of the integrated Platform Engineering roadmap, translating strategic direction into prioritized outcomes and initiatives.
• Balance stakeholder value, strategic alignment, engineering capacity, technical health, operational risk, dependencies, and cost; bring material trade-offs and prioritization recommendations to the Head of Platform Engineering for decision.
• Develop a strong understanding of internal stakeholder needs, workflows, and pain points, distinguishing broadly valuable platform opportunities from one-off requests.
• Ensure roadmap initiatives include clear outcomes, ownership, dependencies, sequencing, and measures of success.
• Define intended outcomes for platform investments and use adoption, service-performance, and customer-feedback data to inform priorities.
• Partner with Technical PMO on project management, standards, and coordination for large cross-team initiatives.
• Establish an effective stakeholder engagement model by partnering with engineering leads to prepare and conduct roadmap, capability, and technical discussions with consistent communication and follow-through.
• Coordinate initiatives spanning multiple Platform Engineering teams, maintaining visibility into dependencies, risks, decisions, and commitments while leaving technical execution to engineering leads.
• Define and maintain service expectations, including SLAs/SLOs, support models, ownership, and escalation paths.
• Maintain portfolio-level visibility into operational performance and service-level attainment by establishing consistent reporting and review processes, identifying gaps, tracking corrective actions, and escalating persistent or material issues (with engineering leads remaining accountable for operating their services and meeting agreed SLAs/SLOs).
• Ensure reliability, resilience, security, compliance, lifecycle risk, cost, and operational readiness are represented in product priorities.
• Provide leadership with clearly framed recommendations, including relevant evidence, options, trade-offs, and recommendations.

Requirements

• Ability to operate credibly between highly technical engineering teams and technical customers.
• At least 10 years of experience in technical product management, platform management, or a closely related role.
• Experience working with internal platforms, cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, production services, or technical products of similar complexity.
• Strong knowledge of product discovery, roadmap development, prioritization, adoption, and outcome measurement.
• Experience with service-management practices including SLAs/SLOs, observability, incident management, operational readiness, resilience, and problem management.
• Ability to understand complex technical topics, ask effective questions, and facilitate decisions without needing to be the deepest technical expert.
• Strong judgment in balancing customer value, technical constraints, reliability, risk, cost, and delivery capacity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including structuring complex discussions and presenting clear recommendations.
• Track record of influencing and driving results across teams without relying on direct authority.

Team Overview

The Platform Engineering team is a strategic engineering team that builds and operates shared platform components enabling application teams and investment teams to deliver software more efficiently and consistently. The team aims to reduce duplication and improve engineering productivity.

The team collaborates with technical stakeholders to understand common needs, drive adoption of platform capabilities, and ensure platform services are reliable, well-supported, and aligned with the organization’s broader engineering strategy.

What Success Looks Like

• Platform priorities are connected to strategic direction and important customer needs.
• The integrated roadmap stays current and coherent, with explicit outcomes and trade-offs.
• Stakeholders understand platform capabilities, roadmap direction, and prioritization decisions.
• Platform adoption increases and realized customer value grows.
• Service expectations are defined and services consistently meet agreed performance standards.
• Operational performance and risks are transparent, and gaps are actively addressed.
• Cross-team initiatives include coordinated commitments, clear ownership, and effective follow-through.
• Leadership focus remains on material strategic, investment, resource allocation, organizational, and risk decisions.

Compensation and Location

• Location: Boston, MA (onsite)
• Salary: USD 120,000 - 290,000 per year

Benefits

• Base salaries and annual discretionary bonuses
• A robust benefits package