Product Engineering Manager

technical product leader

Directly Responsible Individual (DRI)

If you are a builder with a strategic mindset who thrives on accountability and a relentless focus on outcomes, this is the role for you.

Your Responsibilities

what you will wake up to solve.

• Translating Strategy into Technical Execution:

  Own the technical realization of the product vision, converting high-level business goals (e.g., market expansion) into concrete engineering roadmaps and architectural milestones.

• Productionizing AI for Real-World Impact:

  Bridge the gap between data science protocols and software engineering rigor, ensuring that experimental ML models are wrapped in the necessary infrastructure to perform reliably in a complex financial environment.

• Balancing Delivery Velocity with System Health:

  Actively manage the tension between shipping new client value quickly and investing in long-term architectural health, making strategic trade-offs to ensure sustained velocity.

• Mentoring for Domain Fluency:

  Go beyond technical mentorship to cultivate deep SCM domain fluency within the squad, ensuring engineers understand why they are building specific features and the business impact of their technical decisions.

• Fostering a "Problem-First" Engineering Culture:

  Lead a squad obsessed with solving complex problems, where technical excellence is viewed as the means to the end of product value, not the end itself.

Welcome to Searce

The ‘process-first’, AI-native modern tech consultancy that's rewriting the rules.

We don’t do traditional.

futurify

The result? Modern business reinvention, built on math, tech, and clarity of purpose.

The DNA of a ‘Searcian’

superpowers we value.

The ‘happier’ core

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  daptable,

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  ositive,

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  assionate,

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  nnovative,

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  xcellence-minded,

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  esponsible.

• happier-in-action:

  Not just a poster on the wall; It's how we make decisions, treat each other, show up for clients & hire or promote people.

• Thinks like a founder. Acts like an owner.

• Always in Beta:

  Relentless curiosity. Openness to learn, un-learn, and re-learn.

• Real Optimist:

  Views all setbacks as opportunities.

• Believes in truth over comfort. Ideas over titles. Learning over knowing.

• Embraces chaos with calm. Evolves faster than the market.

Functional Skills

• Strategic Product-Aligned Architecture:

  Defines and drives technical architectural strategies that directly enable the long-term product vision, ensuring engineering efforts contribute significantly to market competitiveness and platform revenue growth.

• Deep Technical Product Discovery:

  Demonstrates exceptional acuity in identifying latent product opportunities within technical constraints, cutting through noise to clarify the core technical challenges that must be solved to deliver robust business solutions.

• Translating Technical Complexity to Business Value:

  Demystifies sophisticated modern software designs, articulating the "why" behind architectural decisions to non-technical audiences without compromising accuracy, ensuring organizational alignment around technical direction.

• Strategic Roadmap Influence & Negotiation:

  Masterfully influences product roadmap discussions with engineering reality, guiding disparate viewpoints toward mutually beneficial technical conclusions that prioritize stability, scalability, and future-proofing.

• Establishing Product Engineering Rigor:

  Overarching technical oversight for product squads, defining the architectural blueprints and best practices necessary to ensure uniform excellence and velocity across the product portfolio.

• The Product-Engineering Nexus:

  Thrives in highly collaborative environments at the intersection of product strategy, data, and delivery. Actively evangelizes technical context to inspire cross-functional teams toward the realization of technically sound, intelligent product solutions.

Tech Superpowers

• AI-Driven Product Strategy:

  Shapes the vision for AI-enabled products by translating technical possibilities into concrete user benefits. You define rigorous product requirements for AI features, ensuring they are not just technically feasible but drive genuine market differentiation and business value.

• Cloud-Native & Platform Product Strategy:

  Defines a platform-first product strategy. You understand how cloud-native performance translates into user benefits, guiding the prioritization of platform investments that form the foundation for long-term product growth and extensibility.

• Technical Strategy & Fluency:

  Applies deep technical understanding of software development to shape product strategy. You translate engineering insights into clear product specifications, ensuring that technical investments directly support the long-term business vision across diverse functional domains.

• Product-Oriented Design for Scale:

  Champions a product strategy built on extensibility and scale. You drive the definition of product ecosystems rather than isolated solutions, ensuring the foundation is designed to incorporate evolving intelligence and new use cases over time. Defines the "what's next" for the product by leveraging emerging technologies.

Experience & Relevance

• Product Partnership:

  A strong track record of acting as a strategic partner to Product Management, co-authoring roadmaps and ensuring technical execution is always tightly aligned with the high-level business strategy.

• Shifted Culture:

  A tangible history of transforming an engineering team's mindset from "output-focused" (closing tickets) to "outcome-focused" (solving actual business problems).

• Navigated Complexity:

  Experience leading teams in domains with high cognitive load (like SCM), proving your ability to master complex business rules and ensure your team understands them too.

• Immersion in Complex Domains:

  Significant experience leading teams in sectors with high cognitive load and complex business logic (e.g., Logistics, Supply Chain, FinTech, Healthcare). You have proven methods for ensuring engineers become domain experts.

• Bridging Business and Tech:

  A demonstrated ability to absorb dense business requirements (like complex SCM rules) and translate them into rigorous architectural constraints and engineering standards for your squad.