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Principal, Technical Product Management Contractor

United States

WHY DEPT®?

We are pioneers at heart. What this means, is that we are always leaning forward, thinking of what we can create tomorrow that does not exist today. We were born digital and we are a new model of agency, with a deep skillset in tech and marketing. That’s why we hire curious, self-driven, talented people who never stop innovating.

Our culture is big enough to cope and small enough to care. Meaning, that with people across 20+ countries, we’re big enough to provide you with the best tools, global opportunities, and benefits that help you thrive. While acting small by investing in you, your growth, your team, and giving you the autonomy to solve our clients' problems, no matter where you are in the world. 

POSITION SUMMARY

Summary

DEPT is transitioning to an AI-first company, centralising its proprietary solutions under the Future of Work program. The program's mission is to enable talent to compete in the age of AI by upskilling people, enhancing workflows, and automating repetitive tasks to achieve pioneering customer growth. 

Currently, we're seeking a dynamic Technical Product Manager to drive growth and innovation that will be leveraged to deliver a significant majority of DEPT’s client work. We are seeking a freelancer for four months.

Role overview

As a Technical Product Manager, you'll spearhead strategic growth and technical excellence. You'll blend technical data expertise with product management mastery to proactively identify opportunities, develop innovative solutions, and elevate our technical solutions.

A key part of your role is to translate business requirements and loosely documented visions into actionable development tasks. You'll bridge technical, creative, and business teams, ensuring seamless collaboration.

The internal product you will be working on is an essential component of the day-to-day of Paid Media & Marketing teams workflows. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of paid media and digital marketing campaign development (or has experience working in digital marketing environments) alongside extensive experience in product development.

Responsibilities

Strategic product ownership

  • Work with the Senior Product Manager and Tech Lead to develop the product vision, strategy, and roadmaps.

Product development

  • Interface with business and broader platform stakeholders to understand their use cases, motivations, and goals - in order to translate into data requirements.
  • Lead discovery and requirement gathering for new data inputs.
  • Translate briefs into actionable development tasks
  • Oversee the scoping of data components, and ensure they fully align with the business needs, whilst also being clearly laid out for the implementation team to follow. 
  • Own the technical proposal pipeline, leveraging short-term gains with long-term business goals to make strategic decisions over prioritisation of functionality.

Technical expertise

  • Lead discussions with downstream consumers and stakeholders from various disciplines on technology - for scoping, validation and risk mitigation. 
  • Become an expert in product functionality, and a pioneer of the product to stakeholders internally and externally. Serve as the technical SME.

Product innovation

  • Define and manage roadmaps and leverage emerging technologies. 
  • Collaborate with data and engineering on feasibility and execution.
  • Investigate APIs and 3rd parties as part of product functionality (not technical feasibility).
  • Lead conversations with partners for 3rd party integration.

Stakeholder engagement

  • Act as one of the primary technical liaisons for internal stakeholders. 
  • Build strong stakeholder relationships by presenting complex solutions clearly. 
  • Translate requests from the business or downstream consumers into data requirements.

Operational excellence

  • Support QBRs, RFPs, and internal business requirement collection.
  • Help to determine task priority and urgency.


Qualifications

  • 4+ years of product management, product marketing, business development, or technology experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
  • Proven experience in technical product management or a similar role.
  • Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Expertise in cloud platform architecture (GCP a plus) and marketing operations is a plus.
  • Experience working with data engineers and analysts, supporting data solutions or warehouses is a plus.



 

  • Rate is dependent on experience. We can consider candidates up to $150 hourly. This is a short term need for four months.

WE SUPPORT YOU BEING YOU: 

DEPT® is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We believe our work is its best when our people feel safe and free to be themselves. We’re committed to an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment and selection process and workplace, regardless of anyone’s identity, background, beliefs, lifestyle or disabilities. So tell us about any accommodations you need. It’s totally confidential and only used to make sure you feel fully supported at every step. 

DEPT® participates in E-Verify, meaning your Form I-9 information will be sent to the federal government to confirm you are authorized to work in the U.S. 

We are a B Corp-certified company passionate about purpose-driven work.  Our hope is that you can feel good about the contributions DEPT® is making to the world and we always have an open door for your ideas in making the world a better place. 

DEPT® is a pioneering technology and marketing services company that creates integrated end-to-end digital experiences for brands such as Google, KFC, Philips, Audi, Twitch, Patagonia, eBay and more. Its team of 2,500+ digital specialists across 30+ locations on 5 continents delivers pioneering work on a global scale with a boutique culture. 

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At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.

Not sure you meet all qualifications? Apply, and let us decide! Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine. 

We also encourage you  to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.

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