Senior Technical Product Manager

This role is ON-SITE Monday - Friday in DC. Must be USC. NO C2C.

Capstone IT is helping our client find a Senior Technical Product Manager who will lead the strategy, development, and delivery of a cloud-based research computing platform supporting economic research.

This individual will work directly with researchers to understand their computing, data, and workflow needs, then partner with cloud engineering, architecture, security, and data platform teams to build scalable, secure solutions.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical product management experience with hands-on knowledge of cloud infrastructure, system design, and platform engineering. This is a true technical product ownership role, not a traditional project or program management position.

Top 4 Must-Have Skills

1. Technical Product Management: 6+ years managing technical products, including defining product strategy, roadmaps, requirements, and delivering enterprise platforms from concept through launch.
2. Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP): 4+ years working directly with cloud technologies, including compute, storage, networking, security, containers, and orchestration.
3. Cloud System Design and Platform Engineering: Hands-on experience designing cloud-based systems, with knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, and monitoring.
4. Enterprise Platform Development and Data Governance: Experience developing enterprise platforms while partnering with security and compliance teams on access controls, data governance, and risk management.

Responsibilities

Product Strategy and Ownership

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a cloud-based economic research platform.
• Prioritize features based on researcher needs, technical feasibility, and business value.
• Balance immediate deliverables with long-term scalability and platform development.

Technical Platform Development

• Collaborate with cloud engineers, architects, data platform teams, and security specialists.
• Translate research computing requirements into actionable technical specifications.
• Guide platform decisions involving cloud infrastructure, data access, security, and governance.
• Support modern platform engineering practices and AI-enabled development workflows.

Researcher Engagement

• Work directly with economic researchers to understand their workflows and challenges.
• Lead user discovery, journey mapping, and workflow design.
• Ensure platform capabilities support real research computing needs.

Delivery and Continuous Improvement

• Drive cross-functional execution and accountability.
• Establish success metrics and monitor product adoption, usage, and feedback.
• Communicate product priorities, progress, and tradeoffs to technical teams and executives.

Qualifications

Required

• Minimum 6 years of technical product management experience.
• Minimum 4 years working directly with AWS, Azure, or GCP in a product or engineering capacity.
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing, storage, networking, security, containers, and orchestration.
• Hands-on cloud system design experience.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, IaC, observability, and monitoring.
• Understanding of modern AI-based development workflows.
• Proven experience launching enterprise or R&D-focused products.
• Experience defining enterprise platform strategy and roadmaps.
• Experience working with security and compliance teams on data governance, access controls, and risk reviews.
• Ability to translate complex technical requirements into product decisions.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting academic or research-based workflows.
• Familiarity with research computing environments and data-intensive workloads