Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DIRECTV is seeking a Technical Product Manager - Principal 1 to lead product strategy and technical vision for complex, high-impact product lines or platforms. The role drives enterprise roadmaps, cross-program initiatives, business process re-engineering, governance, success metrics, executive alignment, and mentorship across the product organization.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field required
- 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
- This is a remote position that can be located anywhere in the United States, with the exception of Alaska
- Advanced degree (MBA, technical master's)
Benefits
- This is a remote position that can be located anywhere in the United States, with the exception of Alaska.
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