Technical Product Manager – Music Discovery Platform

HARMAN International

. Drive technical product decisions across the music discovery backend: clarify problem statements, establish success metrics, and align technical tradeoffs (quality, latency, reliability, cost, velocity).

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeRemote • California, Maryland, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $161,250 - $236,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive technical product decisions across the music discovery backend: clarify problem statements, establish success metrics, and align technical tradeoffs (quality, latency, reliability, cost, velocity).
Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to build alignment, influence decisions, and communicate project strategy, status, and impact.
Own the planning and execution of large-scale projects with multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
Build and maintain project plans: milestones, timelines, resourcing assumptions, critical paths, and launch readiness criteria.
Identify and mitigate risks, manage dependencies, resolve blockers, and escalate when needed to protect delivery dates and quality.
Coordinate with teams building/operating APIs and pipelines that enable music catalog, search, and recommendation experiences.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years experience driving technical projects end-to-end (platform, infrastructure, data, backend services, ML/analytics systems, or similar).
Strong technical fluency: able to partner with engineers on architecture discussions, tradeoffs, and execution planning.
Excellent written and verbal communication: can drive alignment, document decisions, and present clear project status and outcomes.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure) and modern delivery practices (CI/CD, Kubernetes, serverless).
Experience with backend/API systems, cloud-native development, and production operations.
Comfort working with data ecosystems (SQL/warehouses, caching, queues/streams).
Experience shipping projects that involve machine learning pipelines, recommendation systems, or search relevance.
Background in music metadata, audio streaming ecosystems, or music technology domain knowledge.
Bachelor's degree in computer science or another related field.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive wellness benefits and 401K Retirement Savings plan.
An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages career development opportunities.
Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work-life integration and collaboration in a global environment.
Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University’s business and leadership academies and extensive course catalog.
Tuition Reimbursement.
Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN products (JBL, Harman/Kardon, etc.).
“Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementtechnical project executionarchitecture discussionsmachine learning pipelinesrecommendation systemssearch relevancebackend servicesdata ecosystemscloud-native developmentproduction operations

Soft Skills

communicationalignmentinfluencerisk managementproblem-solvingstakeholder managementdocumentationpresentation skillsplanningexecution

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science