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Applicants must currently reside in San Francisco Bay Area or be willing to relocate.\nKQED is redefining public media to be more inclusive, participatory, and community-powered. In a time when misinformation and distrust in media are growing, we are committed to being the trusted journalistic source serving the needs of the Bay Area.\nWithin this scope, our Digital Product Team develops experiences to serve the needs of our diverse audiences. This includes partnering with editorial teams on essential content, developing new content formats, and building the infrastructure to power personalized experiences.\nTo support these efforts our team is looking for a Technical Product Manager, to sit at the intersection of business strategy and deep engineering execution. This role will be responsible for prioritization and translating complex requirements into actionable technical roadmaps. Working closely with engineering and business stakeholders, you will ensure our systems are architecturally scalable, technically feasible, and directly aligned with system needs and business goals.\nWe are looking for talented individuals to help our team build and maintain our digital systems, which power kqed.org and our mobile apps. We are a media organization and we look for talent who can bring a strong knowledge of functional design to our digital properties and our community.\nKQED envisions a public media organization with a culture that centers on human dignity, equity, and belonging. This will enable us to better serve and reflect the Bay Area through diverse and inclusive storytelling.\nWe value the contributions of marginalized people in society - including Black, Indigenous, and all people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people - and we believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do, and we strongly encourage members of these communities to apply.\nKQED Code of Ethicshttps://www.kqed.org/about/code-ethics\nThe mission that drives us:\nKQED provide citizens of Northern California with a community-supported alternative to commercial media. We provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions; convene community dialogue; bring the arts to everyone and engage audiences to share their stories. We help students and teachers thrive in 21st-century classrooms, and take people of all ages on journeys of exploration- exposing them to new people, places and ideas.\nKey Responsibilities:Establish prioritization frameworks to balance feature development, infrastructure upgrades, and technical debt reduction.\nPartner with engineering teams to evaluate system constraints, review API designs, and translate complex technical requirements into stories and sprint backlogs.\nDefine key product metrics and analyze systems to evaluate system performance.\nLead grooming, backlog refinement, and sprint planning in an Agile environment, ensuring clear acceptance criteria and seamless alignment across cross-functional teams.\nCore Technical Background:\nBasic understanding of microservices, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), databases (SQL vs. NoSQL), API design (REST, GraphQL), and Content Management System (CMS) architecture (headless vs. traditional CMS platforms).\nAbility to read code, review API documentation, and participate in technical trade-off discussions without getting lost. \nTargeted technical knowledge-such as machine learning/AI models, data pipelines, infrastructure, or developer tools (SDKs). \nFamiliarity with JavaScript/typescript (or other oop language) preferred.\nAgile methodologies and scrum management experience.\nWork Experience & Education:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related STEM field.\nSoftware Engineer, Solutions Architect or Systems Architect experience preferred.\nAt least 5 years working on technical products.\nAbout the Product Team:\nWe run, and develop, multiple properties (including kqed.org and our mobile apps) and are always building new products on a modern stack with some legacy systems. 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