About the Role
Guidepoint is seeking a Technical Product Manager (TPM) to drive execution of strategic programs within the AI Platform and Data Products initiatives. This role is crucial for shaping product roadmaps, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring successful product launches.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain product roadmaps across multiple initiatives.
- Write detailed product requirements, define acceptance criteria, and partner with engineering for feature delivery.
- Prioritize initiatives based on business impact, customer needs, technical complexity, and resource constraints.
- Translate business requirements into clear project plans, milestones, and execution strategies.
- Track roadmap commitments and ensure team alignment on priorities.
- Define project scope, success metrics, launch plans, and operational readiness requirements.
- Drive execution of multiple concurrent programs across AI, data, and platform initiatives.
- Maintain project plans, timelines, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans.
- Proactively identify blockers and coordinate resolution across teams.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time and aligned with business objectives.
- Coordinate engineering, operations, product, and business stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.
- Establish scalable processes for AI products, APIs, and data platform initiatives.
- Serve as a key liaison between Product, Engineering, Operations, Compliance, Sales, Client Service, and Executive Leadership.
- Facilitate project meetings, document decisions, and drive action items to completion.
- Communicate program status, risks, dependencies, and milestones to stakeholders at all levels.
- Prepare executive updates, status reports, roadmap reviews, and launch communications.
- Support projects involving external technology partners and vendors.
- Coordinate onboarding, testing, and launch activities for third-party integrations and MCP partners.
- Coordinate internal testing, user acceptance testing, rollout planning, and operational readiness.
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to ensure successful delivery and adoption of new capabilities.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in Technical Product Management.
- Experience working closely with software engineering teams to deliver technical products or platform initiatives.
- Hands-on experience managing API, integration, SaaS platform, and data products.
- Strong understanding of the product development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, prioritization, roadmap planning, release management, testing, and launch readiness.
- Strong project planning, organization, and execution skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience using Jira, Confluence, and related collaboration tools.
- Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and create structure across cross-functional teams.
- Experience with AI/ML products, AI workflows, MCP (Model Context Protocol), AI platform integrations, or developer platforms.
- Familiarity with APIs, OAuth, authentication flows, entitlements, rate limits, and developer documentation.
- Experience working with modern data platforms such as Databricks, or similar environments.
- Experience supporting product launches and go-to-market initiatives.
- Experience coordinating distributed or offshore engineering teams.
Skills
- Technical Product Management
- API Management
- Integration Management
- SaaS Platform Management
- Data Products Management
- Product Development Lifecycle
- Requirements Gathering
- Prioritization
- Roadmap Planning
- Release Management
- Testing
- Launch Readiness
- Project Planning
- Organization
- Execution
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
- Agile Methodologies
- Jira
- Confluence
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving
- AI/ML Products
- AI Workflows
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- AI Platform Integrations
- Developer Platforms
- OAuth
- Authentication Flows
- Entitlements
- Rate Limits
- Developer Documentation
- Databricks
- Product Launch Support
- Go-to-Market Initiatives
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 4+ years
Salary/Compensations
- 150,000 - 180,000 CAD
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Paid time off
- Comprehensive benefits plan
- Company RRSP match
- Development opportunities through the LinkedIn Learning platform
About the Company
- Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process.
- Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action.
- Backed by a network of nearly 1.75 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,600 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request.
- With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful.
- At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience.
