Technical Product Manager

Position Title:  Technical Product Manager

Location: Remote, US

Your role

Digital Realty is seeking to add a Technical Product Manager to our Service Innovation team. This is a key role within the Product Management organization and is responsible for translating the product roadmap into actionable steps to enable the product development teams to build the product while ensuring that the product goals remain aligned to the company’s business objectives.

What you’ll do

• Work with the development team to ensure that product requirements are understood and built accordingly by fostering collaboration with product designers, engineers, and quality assurance


• Explore competitors’ products and come up with new ways to improve the company’s products


• Translate product’s strategy into detailed requirements for prototype construction and final product development


• Participate in the development of the product vision, product strategy, and product roadmap processes and permeate that knowledge throughout the product development process and participating team members


• Ensure that user story content and prioritization is aligned to the larger strategic objective


• Execute an Agile/Scrum product development methodology, with a mindset of continuous improvement

• Be the liaison between the product team and the technology and support teams


• Proactively manage changes in project scope and/or priorities, assess impact to product development process, and devise contingency or mitigation plans


• Identify, propose and negotiate tradeoffs on scope vs. timeline and customer satisfaction


• Continually assess product risks and identify ways to mitigate them


• Make prioritization recommendations based on estimated return and/or benefit to the business

What you’ll need

• 10+ years of experience in technical role working in computer networking, cloud computing, or data center technologies


• 3+ years of experience as a member of a software development team


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts


• Ability to forge strong working partnerships across a diverse cross-functional team and most importantly with product development teams to help resolve technical issues and challenges


• Proven track record in meeting business objectives and improvement of business processes


• Operate within differing SDLC models, including Agile/Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall


• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience (10 years)


• Strong background in computer networking, cloud computing, and enterprise needs in the interconnection space


• Agile/Scrum (5+ years)


• Jira (3+ years)

A bit about us

Digital Realty supports the world's leading enterprises and service providers by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, our global data center platform, gives customers a reliable foundation for scaling their digital business and efficiently managing data gravity challenges. The size and scale of our business puts us in a unique position to offer customers access to 290 facilities in 50 metros across 26 countries and six continents.

A bit about our Digital team

Technology & Innovation

Our Technology & Innovation team strives to innovate alongside our customers and empower their businesses to thrive. We work closely with our customers to develop insights-based, data-driven technical solutions and differentiated value propositions on PlatformDIGITAL® across the world. Operating in almost 50 cities globally means we understand how rapidly the world is evolving, so we’ve built a best-in-class development model to qualify, package; and enable cloud to core to edge hybrid IT solutions. Our deep technical heritage, combined with our global footprint, means the Technology Innovation team can create and deploy services and solutions that are at the heart of the digital economy.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.

Notes:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Digital Realty offers a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled.  All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.

Digital Realty cares about the health and safety of its workforce, customers, and vendors. Digital Realty encourages all new hires to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated by their start date. Employees who are not fully COVID-19 vaccinated may need to comply with our weekly COVID-19 testing requirements if required per your job requirement, work location and customer obligations, subject to applicable workplace accommodation requirements

Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.

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