Senior Product Operations Manager

Role Overview

As our Senior Product Operations Manager, you will report to the Head of Product Operations and help drive the operational effectiveness of our product development organization. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Design leaders and teams to drive roadmap planning, improve execution across complex initiatives, serve as the operational lead for strategic cross-functional initiatives, and establish scalable ways of working that increase organizational effectiveness.

What You Will Do

Drive planning readiness by identifying planning gaps, strengthening planning quality, and improving cross-functional alignment before development begins. Facilitate cross-team planning, dependency management, and coordination to reduce execution risk and improve delivery predictability.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You are a self-starter who takes ownership of challenges and brings clarity to complex, ambiguous situations. You are skilled at guiding teams through process changes and building strong relationships with business partners and stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Product Operations, Technical Program Management, Product Management, Engineering, or a related discipline within a SaaS or technology company.
• Proven experience supporting annual and quarterly roadmap planning at scale across product and engineering organizations with hundreds of team members, including prioritization, dependency management, and organizational alignment.
• Demonstrated success delivering complex product initiatives across multiple product and engineering teams.
• Experience designing and scaling operational processes, frameworks, and ways of working.
• Technical fluency in tools and systems such as Linear, Jira, and analytics platforms, with comfort working with engineering and delivery metrics.
• Working knowledge of modern software development practices, methodologies, and lifecycles.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights and recommendations for product and engineering leaders.
• Experience developing operational reporting, metrics, dashboards, and executive-level communications.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect operational improvements to business outcomes such as delivery predictability, time-to-market, product adoption, user satisfaction, and customer value.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence across product, engineering, and leadership audiences.
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, build alignment, and influence stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to identify organizational friction, execution risks, and opportunities for improvement, and drive them to resolution.

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