Product Manager, Platform Infrastructure

Do you think about cloud technology as a way to provide leverage and improve how a business operates? We are looking for candidates who share our passion for tackling cloud software challenges head-on, to help build an enterprise platform that will scale with our customers’ features and data needs.

As a Product Manager, Platform Infrastructure at Ridgeline, you will be responsible as the technical, product-minded leader for infrastructure platform components that affect the entire development organization and are highly user impacting. You’ll collaborate with other Product Managers, development teams, QA and leadership to plan and create end-to-end solutions for a fast-growing software startup in the financial technology industry. This role is based in one of our Lake Tahoe, Reno, San Ramon or NYC offices.

What will you do?

• Bring strong customer-centric thinking, technical understanding and execution excellence to major initiatives and core features, resulting in performant, reliable, efficient, high quality platform infrastructure, promoting long-term sustainability and stability over short term gains
• Deliver strategic product and technology roadmaps and coordinate the product development process through analysis, discovery, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation phases, ensuring on-time delivery while communicating and partnering with technology peers
• Evangelize the roadmap and technology vision and communicate the value to both internal and external stakeholders
• Curate use cases for full stack software engineers and ensure sufficient detail, success criteria, goals and performance objectives are accurate and clearly articulated
• Partner with QA to collaborate on test plans and ensure quality measures are met
• Contribute to a cross-functional, collaborative environment deeply rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency
• Assess resource allocation needs across multiple projects
• Stay informed on technology trends to inform product and technology decisions
• Foster a productive, engaging, supportive culture of excellence as Ridgeline grows

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, systems engineering, computer engineering, or other related engineering discipline
• 2+ years of product management experience directly owning a product roadmap, ideally on platform products
• 3+ years of software engineering or other related technical development experience
• Experience working with agile development methodologies
• Experience across all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Experience working closely with DevOps and CI/CD processes
• Experience with version control (git) and trunk-based development
• Experience building platforms on AWS cloud technology or similar technology platforms
• Knowledge of databases and customer data management
• Basic understanding and experience with JavaScript or Python
• Ability to partner effectively with colleagues from Product, Engineering, Design, QA, PMO, and DevOps
• Strong communication skills and ability to build constructive technology relationships

Nice-to-Haves

• Deep experience AWS technologies and enterprise software as a service
• Enterprise software experience working within SLAs and SOC2 compliance
• Testing process and methodology experience with automated CI/CD testing, platform testing, and test driven development
• Long-term interest in developing highly functional teams, organizational processes and tools
• Comfortable working with Slack, JIRA/Confluence, AWS, UI design tools, Google Apps and Github
• Experience with investment management technology use cases

About Ridgeline

Ridgeline was founded by Dave Duffield (co-founder and former CEO of both PeopleSoft and Workday) in late 2017 to develop enterprise software for the investment management industry. We are building an end-to-end cloud platform on a modern infrastructure using AWS, serverless technologies, and working with modern frameworks

Headquartered in the Lake Tahoe Basin with an office in the heart of Manhattan, Ridgeline employees enjoy the best of both worlds: the tranquility of Lake Tahoe and the energy of the country's financial epicenter. 

Our unconditional commitment to our customers and each other creates an environment of respect, trust, and collaboration; we lift each other up in the pursuit of shared goals. If this people-first perspective is important to you, perhaps you're one of us.

Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace.

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