Technical Product Manager - Principal

The Technical Product Manager - Principal 1 owns the end-to-end product strategy and technical vision for complex, high-impact product lines or platforms, driving alignment across multiple teams, programs, and business units. Serves as the authoritative voice on architecture-informed product decisions, translating enterprise-level business strategy into a multi-quarter roadmap. Provides technical and strategic leadership across the organization, mentoring senior product managers and influencing executive-level decision-making on product direction, investment priorities, and long-term platform evolution.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Owns and evolves the long-term product vision and technical strategy for a major product line, platform, or portfolio, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and multi-year business strategy.
• Architects and governs large-scale, cross-program EPICs and initiatives, proactively identifying systemic dependencies, technical risks, and organizational impacts across multiple teams and business units.
• Leads planning and execution of multi-program-increment initiatives, establishing the roadmap narrative that connects individual features to broader company strategy.
• Partners directly with senior executives, architects, and cross-functional leaders to shape investment decisions, prioritize competing initiatives, and negotiate trade-offs at an organizational level.
• Drives advanced business process modeling and re-engineering efforts (BPMN, value stream mapping, swimlanes) to identify systemic inefficiencies and design scalable future-state processes.
• Establishes and enforces standards for requirements elicitation, documentation, and traceability across teams, ensuring consistency and quality at scale.
• Defines the framework for feature definition and prioritization, ensuring capabilities map cleanly to strategic business outcomes and technical architecture.
• Designs and governs the organization's approach to success metrics, including adoption, performance, throughput, and value realization, and reports outcomes to senior leadership.
• Mentors and coaches senior and mid-level product managers, elevating team-wide product management maturity and technical acumen.
• Acts as an escalation point for the most complex, ambiguous, or high-risk product and technical challenges, providing solution-based direction with minimal oversight.
• Represents the product organization in governance forums, architecture review boards, and executive planning sessions.

What you’ll need to do successful:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field required; advanced degree (MBA, technical master's) preferred.
• 3 – 5 years of relevant experience, including significant experience operating at a strategic or enterprise level.
• Recognized subject-matter expert in technical product management, business process modeling, and enterprise-scale product strategy.
• Deep technical fluency, with the ability to engage credibly with architects and engineering leadership on system design and technical trade-offs.
• Proven track record of shaping multi-year roadmaps and influencing enterprise or organization-wide strategic decisions.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including experience facilitating executive-level workshops and cross-organizational alignment sessions.
• Advanced expertise in requirements traceability frameworks, governance models, and documentation standards at scale.
• Deep expertise in defining, tracking, and reporting on success metrics tied to strategic business outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring and developing other product management professionals.

May require a background check due to job duties requiring routine access to DIRECTV and DIRECTV customer’s proprietary data. Qualified applicants with arrest and…