Technical Product Manager

Your Role - Come join our Product Team!

First, an important note: Data shows that men on average apply for a role if they meet 3/10 requirements while women often only do so if it’s 10/10. We work hard to be clear and specific about what our roles include and demand and encourage you to apply if you see a strong (but not necessarily perfect) fit between you and the opportunity.

FutureFit AI is looking for a Technical Product Manager to join our team! As a Technical Product Manager at FutureFit AI, you will play a critical role in driving our product's technical vision and execution. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, data, and business teams, to deliver impactful features that drive business growth and add value to our users. You will be a key player in bridging the gap between user experience requirements and the technical specifications required to build and scale a multi-sided enterprise platform.

What You’ll Do

• Drive the execution of our technical roadmap, focusing on platform components that align with business objectives and customer feedback.
• Coordinate with business, product, engineering, and data teams to define technical requirements for key platform features.
• Dive deep into technical stacks, including APIs, databases, and microservices, to understand and scope scalable solutions.
• Engage in technical discovery with engineering teams to define user stories, requirements, and technical artifacts.
• Integrate multiple factors into final requirements, such as responsiveness, internationalization, accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), and large data sources.

What You'll Work On

• Integrate LLMs to enhance and improve the experience of job seekers and recruiters.
• Enhance localized market demand and salary data to provide more personalized recommendations.
• Drive technical scoping around advanced search, query, and performance of job posting data.
• Partner with engineering and data teams to conduct technical testing and evaluation on recommender systems.
• Partner with data team members to expand reporting and data visualization capabilities for our customers.

Your Skills & Experience

Must Haves

• Relevant product experience over at least two years.
• Ownership mindset and a desire to work in a high-growth startup environment.
• Strong technical acumen, with experience in deep technical architecture, services design, and data assets.
• Experience and are comfortable navigating complex stakeholder dynamics and driving alignment.
• Ability to quickly understand and consider multiple aspects of complex systems.
• Competence in product processes, including gathering requirements, providing design feedback, and writing user stories.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies like Scrum, tools like JIRA, and facilitation of ceremonies like standups and retrospectives.

Nice to Haves

• Direct experience in software engineering or other technical domains.
• Familiarity with design, Figma, and basic user discovery.
• Experience in a startup or high-growth environment.
• Deep understanding of or interest in labor market data, edtech, and/or workforce development.

Your Education

Your alma mater isn’t our focus. Your grit, hunger, and drive are. If you’re one who learns continuously, tackles challenges head-on, and knows your strengths and gaps intimately, you’re our person.

Job Benefits

• Work directly with the founding team
• Unlimited PTO
• Health care
• 401(K) (US Employees)
• Career Development Budget
• Technology reimbursement
• Flexible schedules built on trust

Location 

This role is a hybrid role based in Toronto or New York City. Most days we work from home but everyone comes to the office at least once a week for face to face collaboration and team building.

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $85k - $110k base salary plus equity; it is variable based on applied experience and other factors identified by the hiring committee. 

Our Company:

In looking at a job posting, it’s often hard to get a basic picture of the company profile (size, stage, structure, etc.) which is why we are sharing it with you upfront. This helps you quickly decide and helps us focus any time we spend together on going beyond the basics:

• Funding: We have raised one round of funding led by JP Morgan which fueled a significant growth trajectory for us and we have a safe financial runway to execute against. 
• Problem Domain: Future of Work / Workforce Development - important that the problem domain interests you even if you haven’t worked in the space before.
• Customers: We partner with workforce development agencies, government agencies, and employers/enterprises.
• Structure: We are organized around the following key departments: Growth, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Data, People & Culture, Finance & Operations.
• Team: We are a team of 30-50 across US and Canada with main hubs in New York and Toronto. This role will be based in Toronto.
• Core Principles: Be Curious, Drive to Outcomes, Raise the Bar, Speed Matters, Own It, Put We Over Me

About FutureFit AI 

At FutureFit AI, we’re on a mission to unlock pathways between talent and opportunity using the power of AI. We focus on personalized, AI-powered career guidance for job seekers, emphasizing skills over extensive resumes, and partner with workforce development partners, governments, and employers to level access to opportunity.

FutureFit AI is a growing, venture-backed company focused on using technology to improve the lives and outcomes for people going through career transitions. We’re a small, driven team, united by our commitment to the job seekers and workforce ecosystems we serve. We're not just building a company; we're shaping the future of work.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

© FutureFit AI All rights reserved, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We encourage people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply.