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The Senior Technical Product Manager (TPM) for CareSelect Imaging is pivotal in transforming product strategy and customer insights into actionable technical plans. This role bridges Product Management and Engineering, collaborating with development teams in India and the US, alongside Architecture, QA, Operations, and Support.

The ideal candidate possesses a strong technical grasp and disciplined product execution. While not requiring solution architect expertise, fluency in system interactions, integrations, APIs, data flows, dependencies, and technical constraints is essential for effective communication and alignment between business and technical groups. A key aspect of this role involves translating complex business needs into clearly defined, manageable technical tasks for predictable engineering execution.

Translate product strategy and customer needs into clear, executable technical work, driving successful delivery.

Serve as a key liaison between Product Management and Engineering, partnering with development teams, Architecture, QA, Operations, and Support.

Understand business and customer outcomes, translating them into technical capabilities, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

Engage actively throughout the entire product lifecycle, from planning and development to testing, release, and post-release validation.

Own backlog readiness and work decomposition, breaking down complex initiatives into manageable increments and ensuring work is clearly defined before development begins.

Partner closely with Engineering, Architecture, and QA to clarify requirements, evaluate technical approaches, and resolve questions during development.

Drive delivery across teams by supporting sprint and PI planning, managing dependencies, and proactively mitigating scope, risks, and blockers.

Ensure quality and release readiness by collaborating with Engineering and QA on testing, acceptance criteria, UAT, and deployment activities.

Communicate priorities, progress, risks, and impacts clearly, while identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in requirements quality, delivery predictability, and collaboration across distributed teams.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.

Minimum of 3 years in technical product management, product ownership, product management, business systems analysis, or technology delivery.

Proven experience working directly with engineering leadership, architects, and distributed development teams.

Experience supporting PI planning, dependency management, and scaled Agile delivery.

Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize backlogs in an Agile product development environment.

Experience partnering directly with engineering teams to clarify requirements and drive work through planning and delivery.

Proficiency with Agile and portfolio-management tools such as Aha, Rally, Jira, or Azure DevOps.

Demonstrated experience decomposing complex capabilities or features into clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.

Ability to influence technical decisions and drive alignment across multiple engineering teams.

Ability to understand and communicate end-to-end technical concepts, including data flows, APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, or enterprise systems.

Solid facilitation, written communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities, cross-team dependencies, and delivery risks.