Job Title: Technical Product Manager – Platform Architecture, Framework & Developer Tools
Location: Remote, USA/Canada
Compensation Range: $80,000 - $130,000 USD for USA, depending on location and experience + Benefits
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly technical Product Manager with a strong engineering background to support and evolve our platform’s REST APIs, microservices, data systems, and the Framework & Developer Tools used across Centric’s engineering organization. This role is cross-team and will work closely with multiple engineering groups simultaneously.
The ideal candidate is a former Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Lead, or Architect who is comfortable discussing system design, evaluating technical proposals, and supporting developers in day-to-day problem-solving.
Key Responsibilities:
- Framework & Developer Tools Ownership
- Support and maintain existing Framework & Dev Tools capabilities used by Developers, Business Consultants, QA, and Technical Consultants.
- Answer technical questions from internal stakeholders and act as an escalation point for platform-related issues.
- Keep product and technical documentation accurate and up to date.
- Communicate new features, changes, and best practices to all impacted teams.
- Collect enhancement requests and incorporate them into future planning.
- Ensure internal tooling evolves to support productivity, consistency, and maintainability across the organization.
- Technical & Architectural Leadership
- Participate in technical design discussions around APIs, services, frameworks, and data models.
- Evaluate architectural proposals and collaborate with engineering leads to drive strong technical decisions.
- Promote consistent API design, proper versioning, and a high-quality developer experience.
- Encourage scalable microservices patterns, strong integration design, and operational excellence.
- Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Own the roadmap for platform APIs, microservices, backend services, and developer tooling.
- Balance business needs, customer feedback, and long-term architectural evolution.
- Work across multiple engineering teams to align priorities and maintain platform-wide coherence.
- Translate business needs into clear, actionable technical requirements.
- Execution & Delivery
- Break down complex requirements into well-defined technical user stories.
- Collaborate with engineering leads on scope, milestones, and success criteria.
- Track progress across multiple workstreams and ensure release readiness.
- Identify dependencies early and surface technical risks.
- Cross-Team Collaboration
- Act as the connector between Product, Engineering, Architecture, QA, Business Consulting, and Customer-facing teams.
- Facilitate communication across teams working on interconnected platform components.
- Ensure consistent understanding of standards, design decisions, and new capabilities.
- Support internal teams with adoption of new features and tools.
- 5+ years as a Software Engineer, Engineering Lead, or Architect.
- Strong technical background in:
- SQL & NoSQL databases
- Java
- TypeScript
- Java application servers (e.g., WildFly)
- Messaging/event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Kubernetes, Docker, cloud-native deployments
- Solid understanding of Framework & Developer Tools development practices.
- Ability to work through deep technical challenges with engineering teams.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex topics.
- Experience owning internal developer platforms, frameworks, or shared libraries.
- Experience supporting multiple engineering teams concurrently.
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, observability, and release engineering.
- Ability to produce high-quality technical documentation.
Why This Role Matters
This role is critical in enabling consistency, efficiency, and strong architectural alignment across engineering teams. It supports improved developer experience, better decision-making, and a scalable, maintainable platform ecosystem.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $80,000 - $130,000 + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range for each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Candidates who exceed the specified experience and relevant education or training may be considered for compensation above the stated range. Please note that the compensation details listed reflect base salary, and certain positions may be offered additional variable incentives.
Top Skills
What We Do
Centric Software® is the innovator behind the #1 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, that is blazing the trail for brands, manufacturers and retailers across all segments of the consumer goods industry. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Centric Software has shattered the mold to create state-of-the-art digital solutions to satisfy the needs of every player in the market, large and small, and supports their mission to develop high-quality, sustainable products that are on time and on trend.
- Centric PLM delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric PLM streamlines the product development process from concept to retail.
- Centric Planning provides best-in-class data and visually driven financial, merchandise and assortment planning as well as store and vendor forecasting to maximize margins and for seamless and fast, pre and in-season execution.
- Centric Visual Boards improves collaboration and decision-making of merchandising and buying teams through intuitive digital boards, driving innovation and decreasing time to market.
All Centric solutions are market-driven, ensuring they meet the needs of customers. These innovations include the first ever PLM mobile apps, 3D CAD connectors, sustainability integrations, and more. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rates in the industry and proudly maintains a 99% customer retention rate due to its seamless implementation methodology which ensures that 100% of its customers go live. Centric Software is proud to provide the best solution, backed by the best team to service the best customers.
Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA). For more information, please visit www.centricsoftware.com.
