Technical Operations Manager

Job Target is a leading company in the online job search and recruiting industry. Our team is comprised of experts in recruitment, e-commerce, and online job search. Our products are used by thousands of corporate recruiters and reach millions of job seekers. The company values work-life balance, rewarding risk and creativity, and an open culture.

The Technical Operations Manager for Distribution will lead the technical side of Job Target’s Distribution team — the group responsible for ensuring our customers’ job advertisements are successfully distributed to external job boards. This role combines leadership, operational excellence, and technical problem-solving to manage a small but high-performing team of developers who build and maintain the systems that power our job distribution network.

This role is ideal for someone with a technical background who enjoys leading teams and improving systems that have real business impact.

• Lead product strategy and execution for job distribution via AI-powered routing, partner integrations, and confirmation.
• Define product roadmaps in collaboration with engineering, QA, and Business leaders.
• Ensure systems scale to handle high-volume data flows with real-time performance requirements.
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term architectural investments.
• Navigate technical tradeoffs and push for automation and resilience in all layers.
• Translate business goals into clear, prioritized backlogs and functional requirements.
• Lead discovery and scoping with users, partners, and internal stakeholders to validate needs.
• Collaborate with data and AI teams to integrate intelligent automation where it drives the most impact.
• Provide consistent updates, documentation, and context to teams across the company.

• 5+ years in product management or technical leadership roles, ideally focused on B2B SaaS, platforms, or backend systems.
• Strong technical fluency—you can speak the language of engineers and make informed trade-offs.
• Demonstrated success managing backend or data platform products through their lifecycle.
• Experience leading diverse engineering teams—you can manage up, down, and across.
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills—you know how to move work forward even in ambiguity.
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with modern cloud architectures, job processing pipelines, APIs, and integrations.
• A proactive, outcome-oriented mindset—you don’t wait for permission to make things better.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience in recruitment advertising, HR technology, or SaaS platforms.
• Familiarity with job distribution systems, job board integrations, or data feed management.
• Exposure to tools like Jira, Confluence, and version control systems (e.g., Git).

Job Target provides a high-energy growth environment, along with a competitive base salary and excellent benefits, including PTO, medical, dental, and 401(k) with match. Annual base pay range: $95,000.00 -$120,000 + bonus potential. Job Target is an equal-opportunity employer.