Technical Operations Manager

JobTarget is a leading company in the online job search and recruiting industry. Our team is comprised of experts in recruitment, e-commerce, and online job search. Our products are used by thousands of corporate recruiters and reach millions of job seekers. The company values work-life balance, rewarding risk and creativity, and an open culture.

The Opportunity

The Technical Operations Manager for Distribution will lead the technical side of JobTargets Distribution team the group responsible for ensuring our customers job advertisements are successfully distributed to external job boards. This role combines leadership, operational excellence, and technical problem-solving to manage a small but high-performing team of developers who build and maintain the systems that power our job distribution network. This role is ideal for someone with a technical background who enjoys leading teams and improving systems that have real business impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy and execution for job distribution via AI-powered routing, partner integrations, and confirmation.
• Define product roadmaps in collaboration with engineering, QA, and Business leaders.
• Ensure systems scale to handle high-volume data flows with real-time performance requirements.
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term architectural investments.
• Navigate technical tradeoffs and push for automation and resilience in all layers.
• Translate business goals into clear, prioritized backlogs and functional requirements.
• Lead discovery and scoping with users, partners, and internal stakeholders to validate needs.
• Collaborate with data and AI teams to integrate intelligent automation where it drives the most impact.
• Provide consistent updates, documentation, and context to teams across the company.
• 5+ years in product management or technical leadership roles, ideally focused on B2B SaaS, platforms, or backend systems.
• Strong technical fluencyyou can speak the language of engineers and make informed trade-offs.
• Demonstrated success managing backend or data platform products through their lifecycle.
• Experience leading diverse engineering teamsyou can manage up, down, and across.
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skillsyou know how to move work forward even in ambiguity.
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with modern cloud architectures, job processing pipelines, APIs, and integrations.
• A proactive, outcome-oriented mindsetyou dont wait for permission to make things better.

Nice to Have

JobTarget provides a high-energy growth environment, along with a competitive base salary and excellent benefits, including PTO, medical, dental, and 401(k) with match. Annual base pay range : $95,000.00 -$120,000 + bonus potential. JobTarget is an equal-opportunity employer.

PI22872a5eed37-31181-39006297