Product Manager

You will lead the shift from siloed feature development to a unified service architecture. This requires a unique blend of strategic foresight to see commonalities across diverse products and the tactical grit to execute in an environment where requirements are often ambiguous and unrefined.

In this role, as a Technical product manager, you will own the technical definition, coherence, and delivery readiness of major product capabilities. You will operate at the intersection of Product Management, UX, Engineering, and Shared Services, ensuring that product intent becomes scalable, high-quality, technically sound software. This is a role for someone who loves diving into data models, integration patterns, architectural trade-offs, and system behaviour working together with engineering teams to drive momentum.
Ideal candidates

We are looking for someone ready to evolve their career. This role is a departure from traditional PM work:

• From Specific to General: You don’t just solve a problem for one persona; you build a solution that solves it for every persona across the company.
• From Roadmap to Ecosystem: You aren’t just managing a backlog; you are managing a platform ecosystem where your success is measured by the speed and ease with which other teams can build on your work.
• From Certainty to Discovery: You thrive when the path isn’t clear. You enjoy the “science” of product management—forming a thesis, building an MVP, and iterating based on internal feedback.

Why This Role Matters

At Deltek, we believe in “Powering Project Success.” By building shared services, you are the force multiplier for our entire product organization. You are the reason we can ship faster, maintain higher quality, and provide a seamless, unified experience for our customers across every product we sell.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Evangelism: Act as the bridge between multiple product lines, identifying overlapping needs and distilling them into a single, high-leverage shared service strategy.
• Hypothesis-Driven Development: Navigate “the grey.” You will start with unclear requirements and use rapid discovery, prototyping, and hypothesis testing to validate what “generally useful” looks like for Deltek.
• Strategic Abstraction: Design services (e.g., identity, billing, reporting, or workflow engines) that are robust enough for complex enterprise needs but flexible enough to be adopted by various product teams.
• Internal Stakeholder Management: Treat internal product teams as your “customers.” You must balance their competing roadmaps and timelines to ensure adoption of shared services.
• Lifecycle Ownership: Define the roadmap, SLOs (Service Level Objectives), and documentation for shared components to ensure they are “developer-ready” and scalable.
• Architectural Strategy: Translate high-level business capabilities into technical blueprints, owning the strategy for data models, integration patterns, and third-party service alignment.
• System Coherence: Ensure technical consistency across workflows and shared services, partnering with Engineering and QE to define system behaviour, telemetry, and observability standards.
• Dependency Orchestration: Proactively identify and resolve technical blockers across product pods to ensure shared-service delivery never slows down the broader organization.
• Platform Innovation: Drive the adoption of AI-enabled workflows and automation tools to accelerate documentation, system modelling, and overall delivery velocity.