Technical Product Manager (Ad Model or MarTech / Marketing Technology experience)
Posted 3 days ago by 1751544610
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Sr. Technical Product Manager will be the first individual-contributor hire in the new TPM organization, responsible for establishing program excellence across Product & Technology. This role involves managing the transition of Thomasnet's advertising business model and ensuring the successful delivery of a new ad technology platform. The position requires collaboration with various teams to drive project execution and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in technical program management and a strong understanding of ad technology products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end management of the Ad Model Business Transformation Project.
- Drive program planning, from concept through to execution and post-launch analysis.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Operations, Sales, and Finance teams to set realistic project goals, timelines, and milestones.
- Implement robust project management processes and frameworks that enhance execution speed, transparency, and accountability.
- Lead risk management and mitigation strategies to proactively identify and address roadblocks or delays.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to prioritize initiatives, ensure alignment across teams, and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Provide clear, concise, and actionable communication on project progress, risks, and outcomes to executive teams.
- Drive continuous improvement in project execution and process management, leveraging data to inform decision-making.
- Foster a high-performance culture across teams, ensuring alignment to company goals and maintaining high morale in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
Key Skills:
- 10+ years of progressive experience in technical program management, engineering management or product management, with at least three years leading cross-functional software initiatives of material business impact.
- Proven ability to create and scale operational processes in high-growth or transformation environments; start-up or first-TPM-in experience strongly preferred.
- Deep understanding of modern SDLC practices (Agile, CI/CD, DevOps) and how to tailor them for speed, quality, and compliance.
- Exceptional stakeholder-management and influence skills from engineers and product managers to C-level executives.
- Demonstrated mastery of program tooling (e.g., Jira, lambda functions in Google Sheets) and data-driven decision-making.
- Adept at balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution; comfortable rolling up sleeves to remove blockers.
- Clear, concise communicator with a track record of producing executive-ready artifacts and leading high-stakes discussions.
- Experience with ad technology products is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience); advanced degree a plus.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: Sr. Technical Product Manager / Program Manager
(Ad Model or MarTech / Marketing Technology experience)
Location: 100% Remote
Type: Contract Position
Job Description:
As the first individual-contributor hire in our nascent TPM organization, you will set the bar for program excellence across Product & Technology. You will architect, run, and continuously improve the operational frameworks that keep our highest-value initiatives on track from roadmap definition and cross-team execution to release management and post-launch optimization. Partnering closely with Engineering, Product, Design, and Business Operations, you will both deliver complex programs and shape what it means to be a TPM at the company.
Initial Project:
Thomasnet, a Xometry company & leading B2B Industrial / Commercial B2B marketplace, is in the process of transitioning its advertising business model from a tenancy ad model to a pay-for-performance ad model. The Sr. Technical Product Manager will work with senior leadership, engineering, product, and business teams to ensure the successful delivery of a new ad technology platform and successful definition and transformation of sales, operations, and other business processes to support the new model.
Project Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end management of the Ad Model Business Transformation Project.
- Drive program planning, from concept through to execution and post-launch analysis.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Operations, Sales, and Finance teams to set realistic project goals, timelines, and milestones.
- Implement robust project management processes and frameworks that enhance execution speed, transparency, and accountability.
- Lead risk management and mitigation strategies to proactively identify and address roadblocks or delays.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to prioritize initiatives, ensure alignment across teams, and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Provide clear, concise, and actionable communication on project progress, risks, and outcomes to executive teams.
- Drive continuous improvement in project execution and process management, leveraging data to inform decision-making.
- Foster a high-performance culture across teams, ensuring alignment to company goals and maintaining high morale in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
General Responsibilities:
- Design and institutionalize lightweight but rigorous operating rhythms (intake, planning, risk management, status reporting, post-mortems) that scale with the business.
- Drive end-to-end execution of strategic, multi-team programs clarifying scope, aligning stakeholders, forecasting resources, and unblocking delivery.
- Serve as a senior thought partner to the Director of Technology Operations, codifying TPM best practices, mentoring future hires, and evolving the career ladder for the function.
- Act as a trusted communications hub, producing crisp executive readouts and facilitating decision-making forums that keep leadership focused on the right trade-offs.
- Champion continuous improvement by synthesizing lessons learned into updated playbooks, tooling, and training.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of progressive experience in technical program management, engineering management or product management, with at least three years leading cross-functional software initiatives of material business impact.
- Proven ability to create and scale operational processes in high-growth or transformation environments; start-up or first-TPM-in experience strongly preferred.
- Deep understanding of modern SDLC practices (Agile, CI/CD, DevOps) and how to tailor them for speed, quality, and compliance.
- Exceptional stakeholder-management and influence skills from engineers and product managers to C-level executives.
- Demonstrated mastery of program tooling (e.g., Jira, lambda functions in Google Sheets) and data-driven decision-making.
- Adept at balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution; comfortable rolling up sleeves to remove blockers.
- Clear, concise communicator with a track record of producing executive-ready artifacts and leading high-stakes discussions.
- Experience with ad technology products is a plus
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience); advanced degree a plus.