Technical Product Management Lead

Technical Product Management (TPM) Lead

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The Technical Product Management (TPM) Lead is a strategic and execution-focused role that works to manage a digital product. This individual works with engineering, design, and business teams, translating product vision into actionable technical requirements. They lead the strategy of their product, define and prioritize features, and ensure the product's alignment with architectural standards and business goals. This role also engages in identifying and driving the development of new, innovative products. The role demands deep technical acumen, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority. Responsibilities include managing the product roadmap, authoring epics and user stories, guiding and interpreting market and user research, and overseeing product performance through data-driven insights.

Key Responsibilities

Product Ownership & Execution

• Designs, develops, and manages activities for a specific digital product from product definition and planning through production, release, and end of life.
• Owns the identification and management of specific features or components within a digital product.
• Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications and user stories.
• Prioritize backlog items in collaboration with engineering and design.
• Leads individual technical product innovation processes, from ideation, to prototyping, testing, piloting, and scaling.
• Ensures delivery excellence by aligning product execution with agile best practices, sprint goals, and release timelines, while proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
• Leads the full lifecycle of a digital product or platform, from initial concept and strategic planning through development, launch, and eventual sunset.

Technical Collaboration

• Work closely with engineering teams to ensure feasibility, scalability, and alignment with architectural standards.
• Participate in sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives to promote on-time delivery.
• Understand APIs, data models, and system integrations to guide development.
• Work with engineering and testing teams to develop and apply A/B testing methodologies to validate best-in-class feature and functionality enhancement.

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

• Builds strong, trust-based relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including engineering, design, business units, customer success, and executive leadership, to ensure alignment on product goals and priorities.
• Interface with internal stakeholders (e.g., customer success, sales, support) to gather feedback and validate technical solutions.
• Regularly uses immediate customer feedback loops, incorporating customer & user feedback into the prioritization of current product feature expansion, and new product development.
• Support customer discovery and usability testing to inform product decisions.

Data-Driven Decision Making

• Use real-time analytics tools to monitor product performance, identify issues, and propose improvements.
• Demonstrate measurable improvements in product reliability, scalability, and performance, as reflected in KPIs such as uptime, latency, error rates, and system throughput.
• Drives enhancements that improve user satisfaction, engagement, and retention, measured through NPS, CSAT, adoption rates, and usage analytics.
• Consistently delivers features and improvements on time and within scope, with minimal rework or technical debt, tracked through sprint velocity, cycle time, and release cadence.

Documentation & Communication

• Create and maintain product documentation, including technical specs, release notes, and user guides.
• Communicate progress, risks, and dependencies to cross-functional teams.
• Develop and socialize product roadmaps, decision logs, and technical rationale to ensure transparency and alignment across teams.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer and continuity by documenting key product decisions, architectural trade-offs, and lessons learned for future reference and onboarding.

Minimum Requirement:

• Degree or equivalent and typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience. Less years required if has relevant Master's or Doctorate qualifications.

Critical Skills:

• 10+ years in progressively advancing technical product management roles.
• 7+ years proven experience working with and influencing highly matrixed teams.
• Hands-on experience in health care industry and/or regulated environment is a plus.
• Demonstrated understanding of product technical product lifecycle management, agile methodologies, and digital transformation.

Specialized Knowledge/Skills:

• 6+ years of experience building business cases.
• The following (or similar) certifications are optional but advantageous: Certified Product Manager (CPM); Scrum Master, SAFe, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to engage engineering, architecture, and data teams to evaluate technical trade-offs, influence solution design, and ensure feasibility of product strategies.
• Base understanding of modern digital architectures, APIs, cloud platforms, data ecosystems, and software development practices.

Working Conditions:

• Traditional Hybrid office environment.
• Commutable to Irving, TX is preferred but not required.
• Travel up to 20%.

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson's full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.